Thursday, June 17, 2010

Send A Father's Day Gift

Because let's be honest.  You forgot Father's Day was this Sunday.  And it's time to send Dad a present.  Unless you don't have a dad, in which case, whatever.

So what to get Dad?  Well, a card for starters.  But then you should ship something really good through Southwest Airlines. Especially if your father is a medical researcher.  Check out this story:
A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding 40 to 60 human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said.

"It wasn't labeled or packaged properly," said Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman. "They called the local authorities."
Then the spokesman told us their true concerns
"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. "We just want to make sure these specimens here aren't a part of that black market and underground trade."

The heads were being transported to the Fort Worth office of Medtronic, a leading medical research and technology company based in Minnesota.

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.
A classmate points out the obvious question - why can't they get an exact number of heads here. Is this a guess the number of jellybeans in the jar situation? Let's say it's fifty-two heads - do I get to take them home?

Black market here I come.

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