Selling infected body parts

[fredster]

This looks like it was a very profitable business.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-body-part-snatchings,0,7130104.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[Stingray]

The Long Island woman now claims she contracted syphilis from the bone

Comedy gold.

-S

[Crazy Cooter]

"cadaver bone that was implanted in her back"

I'm in that boat.  Two people at the hospital I had it done at received the black market bone.  So far nobody has said anything to me... and they better not... because I'll go postal.

[danny_galaga]

that is really sad...

[ChadTower]

It's becoming more and more common knowledge, too.  Not long ago they discovered many of the funeral homes in northern NJ (I think that's where it was) was just stacking bodies in sheds and dumping them in a pile in woods, etc etc, rather than bothering to cremate them as they were paid to do. 

[fredster]

That was in Georgia wasn't it?

Cooter, what type of bone did you have put in?

[ChadTower]

Could have been mostly in GA, I'm pretty sure I heard of it happening in NJ too.  Either way, that's a pretty ---smurfy--- way to spend eternity, stuffed in the back of a shed in a parking lot under 45 other rotting people.

[Crazy Cooter]

Dead people parts  .

I don't know if they use leg/arm/whatever.  My back was broken so I just wanted it fixed.  It looks really weird in an x-ray to see it.  The bone is about 2/3 the diameter of my spinal cord.  It stands out like a sore thumb on the x-rays.  They scratched up my bone, scratched up the dead person bone, then jabbed it in there.  I didn't get any metal because of infection concerns... which is crazy considering the topic at hand  .

I wonder where it came from, but it would bother me to walk around knowing some kid was run over by a bus and now part of them is in me.  So I really don't want to know.

I think it was Georgia.  They did a Law & Order episode on it.

[ChadTower]

You mean 2/3 the width of your spine?  Your cord is very small in diameter.

[Crazy Cooter]

lol.  yeah, spine.  The "boney" part  .

[fredster]

I guess you are okay. That's good. I like to argue with you!

You don't know it was one of these. I was a little shocked when I saw this. You'd figure that with all the rules and regulations this couldn't happen here.

The article even said Alistar Cooke's bones were taken.

It creeped me out.

[ChadTower]

Dude, there are rules and regulations, as you say.

But there is almost no oversight anywhere for anything.

This is becoming more and more obvious as the years roll past and more bizarre scandals come to light.