60 human heads discovered at Arkansas airport

[nick]

Arkansas airport workers discovered a shipment of 40 to 60 human heads at a cargo facility last week, after noticing that the package was "not labelled properly".

Employees at Southwest Airlines discovered the clumsily duct-taped containers of heads last week in Little Rock. After they reported their grim discovery to police, the heads were turned over to the local coroner.

Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper said: "They were basically in plastic containers with lids that are not air sealed.

"They were duct taped with minimal information to disclose what was inside."

Further investigation revealed that the heads were being shipped to Medtronic Inc in Fort Worth, Texas, where they would be used by neurosurgeons to study ear, nose and throat procedures.

A spokesman for the medical company said they had ordered four heads and 40 head portions with an ear attached.

He said: "In this particular instance they were going to be used for educational training, which is routinely and commonly done."

He said it was not uncommon for heads used for research to be shipped commercially, adding: "It's a common practice. This is a very uncommon result."

Medtronic, the world's largest independent medical device company, had used an Arkansas-based company to supply and ship the heads.


source (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7836901/60-human-heads-discovered-at-Arkansas-airport.html)

[Sith Lord 13]

Got to love headlines. Are they ever straight forward?

[Ryhanna]

Oh my God.

That's... so sick, and gross and weird!

[Bougainvillea]

I was getting scared for a second.

But since it's for educational purposes, okay. :P

[nick]

....said they had ordered four heads and 40 head portions with an ear attached.
Sounds like some bizarre restaurant order.

Doesnt anyone wonder where the heads came from? Thats a lot of heads to have been voluntarily donated at one time isnt it?

[Bougainvillea]

Well, alot of people die. And the were probably people who donated their bodies to science.

[CaliKid24]

I'd be freaked out if I was the one who found them

[Sage]

Fuck. I was hoping there'd be the most awesome serial killer ever on the loose.

[Bougainvillea]

That's kinda what I was hoping.

[INFERNO]

Sounds like some bizarre restaurant order.

Doesnt anyone wonder where the heads came from? Thats a lot of heads to have been voluntarily donated at one time isnt it?

One university course I was in that finished had barrels of dead adult cats with their throats slit and foam stuffed in their mouths, sharks that were somehow killed, salamanders that were somehow killed, large eels that were I believe poisoned, rats/mice that were used in other experiments (they were altered too much to be of anymore use so they were killed), partial heads of sheep with the atlas and axis vertebra sometimes attached to the brain (had to carefully cut much of it off) and a big bucket of cow or lamb eyeballs with the optic nerve still attached (had to remove the fat and muscles). Some of the whole animals were pregnant, had not eliminated their waste, had full stomachs and had very odd anatomical abnormalities possibly human-induced.

I wonder a bit but know were most of them came from. The cats may have been from animal shelters, not sure where they came from.

The humans were probably the same, donated in some fashion.

Fuck. I was hoping there'd be the most awesome serial killer ever on the loose.

Same, I was first :eek: then :yawn: .

[Bougainvillea]

^With the classes I'm taking, I get to be present at an autopsy. A human one.

I think the local college even has a sample of the Ebola virus.

[deadpie]

Does the article say where the heads are being transported? Don't ask why I said this.

[Jess]

creepy and gross.....o_O

[Bougainvillea]

Does the article say where the heads are being transported? Don't ask why I said this.

Further investigation revealed that the heads were being shipped to Medtronic Inc in Fort Worth, Texas, where they would be used by neurosurgeons to study ear, nose and throat procedures.

Yes, sir.

[JackOfClubs]

Until I got to the educational bit I was just a bit worried :P