Customs officials at an Austrian airport have stopped a female traveller carrying two containers of entrails into the country, believed to belong to her late husband.
| And who would know a husband's entrails better than his wife, I ask you? |
The packages belonged to a Moroccan national who suspected her husband had been poisoned. He died during an operation in Morocco, according to the Kleine Zeitung newspaper.
"My God, Doctor, the patient is dead!"
"Yes, Nurse, disemboweling tends to do that." |
The woman was travelling through Graz airport in the south of Austria but was reportedly stopped by officials after they observed her behaving suspiciously.
"So vat vas she doingk, Hans?"
"She vas stroking her husband's entrails most lovingly, Frans!" |
When speaking with the officials, the woman said she wanted to have tests carried out on the remains in order to investigate her suspicions around her husband’s death. However, a doctor summoned to the scene said a proper investigation could not be carried out without the full cadaver.
| You need the full cadaver to figure out a disembowelment? |
Austria’s finance ministry, which is responsible for all customs issues, confirmed the unusual find.
| "Yah! Ve have not seen such a t'ing in, oh, about seventy years or so!" |
However, police said they were not investigating as no laws had been broken.
"Did the disembowelment occur on Austrian soil?"
"No, mein Attorney Genralness! It vas done in Morocco-land!"
"Ack so, there is no crime here. Though she should not attempt to wear the entrails as garters, as that is strictly forbidden!" |
The entrails have now been stored and are awaiting further examination by scientists.
| "Mein Gott, doctor! Could we not just send these to the Mayo Clinic?" |
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