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Southwest Finds Shipment of Heads on a Plane
Now, there's a headline you don't see every day.A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said. "Honey! Has the postman been here yet? I'm expecting an order of heads..." "It wasn't labeled or packaged properly," said Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman. "They called the local authorities." "Not yet, dear. I hope they put enough postage on them this time!" The incident happened in Little Rock, Ark., last Wednesday, she said. "I always have trouble getting my heads when I deal with Little Rock, dammit! If they screw this batch up I'm switching to Omaha!" Little Rock police turned the package over to the county coroner, who questions where they came from and if they were properly obtained. "You got a permit for them heads, Mac?" "We've come to the conclusion that there is a black market out there for human body parts for research or for whatever reason," said Pulaski County coroner Garland Camper. "Pssst! Hey, buddy! Wanna buy a head?" "Naw. I already got a head." "We just want to make sure these specimens here aren't a part of that black market and underground trade." "I dunno, Bob. Those heads look pretty suspicious to me!" The heads were being transported to the Fort Worth office of Medtronic, a leading medical research and technology company based in Minnesota. Oh, well. A medical research and technology company. That's raise my suspicions right there. Medtronic spokesman Brian Henry said it is common to ship body parts for medical education and research, but he said it is rare for a shipment to be seized. "Now I guess we'll have to go back to teleporting them. They never got seized when we teleported them." "We expect our suppliers to follow proper procedures," he said. Camper described the items as 40 to 60 human heads. "Jones! Look up the rules for shipping 40 to 60 human heads!" Posted by: Fred 2010-06-17 |
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