Just in time for Halloween: "Embalmed heads found in I-30 truck"

[crispini]

Embalmed heads found in I-30 truck

08:50 AM CDT on Tuesday, October 30, 2007

By KATIE MENZER / The Dallas Morning News

On the face of it, the truck full of human heads could have been a Halloween prank or the makings of a scary movie.

"This is in the top five of the strangest things – maybe the strangest – that I've ever encountered," Hunt County Justice of the Peace Aaron Williams said Monday.

Judge Williams was called to the scene when a regular traffic stop Sunday morning by Royse City police turned into a grisly discovery of severed heads in the back of a tractor-trailer.

Police said the truck driver was pulled over for speeding about 2:30 a.m. on Interstate 30 at the Hunt County line. Because he was acting suspiciously, officers looked in the back and saw about two dozen embalmed human heads staring back at them from plastic bags and containers.

The driver couldn't produce documentation showing why he was hauling the heads, so police detained him until his company – which authorities would not name – faxed over the paperwork.

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http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/wfaa071029_ac_heads.1bf1ad317.html

:scared:

[Highway61]

1. EEEEEEGads

That would freak me out!!!

[redqueen]

2. Much ado about nothing, indeed.

The heads were specimens used in medical training in Fort Worth and were headed back to a company in Little Rock, Royse City police Lt. Jim Baker said.

(snip)

While there's heavy federal oversight involved in the donation of organs and tissues to be used in transplant surgeries, there is little governance over whole-body donations – or "donating your body to science."



Interesting stuff about how willed bodies are treated in there, though.

[SoxFan]

3. Wait a second...

"This is in the top five of the strangest things – maybe the strangest – that I've ever encountered," Hunt County Justice of the Peace Aaron Williams said Monday

"Maybe"?

[SteppingRazor]

4. That's the first thing I thought -- "This is Top Five?!"

What exactly rounds out the Top 5?

[Maestro]

5. What was he doing to act "suspiciously?"

Perhaps he was swerving around the road as he argued with the heads who were talking to him. :shrug:

[madinmaryland]

6. Talking Heads??2??

:rofl:

[crispini]

7. Hee hee hee hee hee nt

[Maestro]

8. LOL!

That was funny.