Man steals brains, sells them on eBay

[UrbScotty]

Authorities say David Charles, a 21-year-old Indianapolis resident, is accused of breaking into the Indiana Medical History Museum multiple times last year and stealing jars of human brain tissue and other preserved material. A tipster who paid hundreds of dollars on the online auction site helped bring the organ entrepreneurism to an end.

The museum is the site of the former Central State Hospital, which served patients with psychiatric and mental disorders from 1848 to 1994. Indianapolis police had investigated several break-ins at the museum's storage facility before a California phone call led police to Charles.

A San Diego man who had bought six jars of human brain tissue off eBay for $600, plus $70 shipping, called the museum after noticing labels on the containers and suspecting some kind of skulduggery, according to court documents.

Detectives with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department used that tip to trace the transactions, eventually speaking to the eBay seller who provided the brain tissue to the San Diego man. That seller had obtained the brain matter from Charles, police said.

http://www.freep.com/article/20140101/NEWS07/301010102/brains-ebay-indiana

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Brrrrrrrrrrrrains

Brains!

[rrneck]

2. You don't say...

Hey, somebody had to post it.

[Initech]

3. Is this how the zombie apocalypse starts?

[Javaman]

4. And the headline read for his ad was...

[madinmaryland]

5. Get a brain Morans!!!!

[mackerel]

6. was it Abby Normal's?