| Author |
Message |
    
Yvettep
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2285
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 02:30 pm: | 
|
Well, this has zero redeeming cultural, racial or economic news value. But I'm sharing nonetheless! A while back someone posted about a woman who found the n-word printed on a manufacturer's tag of a couch she had bought. But I think this man's find in a purchase beats that!
A man who bought a smoker Tuesday at an auction of abandoned items might have thought twice had he looked inside first.
Maiden police said the man opened up the smoker and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it, he found a human leg, cut off 2 to 3 inches above the knee.
The smoker had been sold at an auction of items left behind at a storage facility, so investigators contacted the mother and son who had rented the space where the smoker was found.
The mother, Peg Steele, explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery “for religious reasons” she doesn’t know much about.
“The rest of the family was very much against it,” Steele said.
Steele said her son, John Wood, plans to drive to Maiden, about 35 miles northwest of Charlotte, to reclaim his amputated leg, police said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20982414/?GT1=10357 |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5344
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 11:09 am: |
|
Yvettep you need to feed this stuff to Tananarive Due.
I didn't know you were so morbid.
Of course, Hollyween is around de bend! |
Yvettep
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2287
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 01:02 pm: |
|
LOL, yeah I'll drop her a line.
I think authorities ought not be so quick to take these folks' word that this is the son's leg. Maybe he cut his own leg off to cover up something nefarious. Did they do a DNA test to verify? How did the leg remain identifyable as a leg when wrapped just in paper? What plane crash? When? What hospital allows you to walk out with medical waste such as an amputated leg? If I were the police I'd dig up this man's yard, search his freezers, everything! LOL |
Yvettep
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2300
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - 07:37 am: |
|
As a follow-up:
MAIDEN, N.C. - A South Carolina man who stored his severed leg in a barbecue smoker that was later auctioned off is locked in a custody dispute with the North Carolina man who found it.
...Whisnant initially gave it to police, who subsequently turned it over to a funeral home when it became clear it was not the result of foul play.
But Whisnant, who put a sign on the empty smoker charging adults $3 and children $1 for a look, now wants the leg back.
"He's making a freak show out of it," Wood told The Charlotte Observer for a Monday story. "He wants to put money in his pocket with this thing."
Whisnant, who was unsuccessful in his bid to get the leg from the funeral home, consulted with a lawyer and decided his best move was to persuade Wood to share custody and profits.
"It's a strange incident, and Halloween's just around the corner," Whisnant said. "The price will be going up if I get (a stake in) the leg."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21088150/ |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10125
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - 04:33 pm: |
|
The very idea! It's a sorry state of affairs when a man is prevented from storing his severed leg in a smoker and charging geeks to take a gawk at it. What has happened to the entreprenurial spirit that is the backbone of capitalism? Who said our soldiers are fighting in Iraq to preserve freedom, justice, and the American way? |
Yvettep
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2306
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 11:20 am: |
|
LOL. But Cynique, you got the story a bit twisted. The first man put his leg in there, the second man bought the smoker with the leg, now it's the second man who wants to keep/share it and charge admission. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10135
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 12:07 pm: |
|
Oh. Nevermind. LOL. |
|
Email This Page