18 Severed Heads Discovered at O’ Hare International Airport!
Posted by Tony on January 16th, 2013Ever leave the house knowing you forgot…something?
We’re wondering what it was like when the guy who was supposed to file paperwork for 18 human heads for medical study realized that he’d forgotten to file paperwork for 18 human heads for medical study.
One week before Santa Claus was to descend on the world with a bag of awesomeness, 18 well-preserved human heads showed up at O’ Hare International Airport with no explanation….just a bunch of questions. It wasn’t until an employee from a crematorium came to pick up the heads that things became clear.
Tagged as ‘medical specimens’, the heads had originally shipped from the US to Rome for medical study and were coming back to the states to be cremated.
Brian Bell of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated:
“There’s no issue with the transportation of body parts for medical purposes. There’s nothing against the law that says you cannot ship them, provided you have the right documentation. Everybody here is ‘Oh my gosh, you got a box of heads’ and everybody thinks that it’s unheard of. It is a potentially legitimate medical shipment. We’ve seen it at various ports in the nation.”
You can leave all your ‘I’d-forget-my-head-if-it-wasn’t-attached jokes below.’
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January 20th, 2013 at 6:07 pm
Wasn’t there a Joe Pesci movie about this? Oh right… That was 8 heads, not 18. Totally different.