[Rhodes22-list] Lost & Found

Herb Parsons hparsons at parsonsys.com
Wed Dec 17 18:33:43 EST 2008


Ben,
Here's an appropriate comment
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Ben Cittadino wrote:
>  Herb;
>
> Is this yours?.................. or Bill's?
>
> Human-sized heart found at the Paw Paw car wash
> December 17, 2008 4:43 PM EST
> PAW PAW, Mich. - A human-sized heart found at a southwestern Michigan car
> wash has investigators wondering whether it came from a person or an animal.
> The organ was discovered in a corner of a manual wash bay at Soapy's Car
> Wash, Paw Paw police said. The owner of the business found it Monday on the
> floor of the bay, according to WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids and WWMT-TV in
> Kalamazoo.
>
> Police first took the heart to an animal clinic, where a veterinarian was
> unable to determine its origin. The next stop was a local cardiologist, who
> said while it was "consistent in size to a human heart," he could not make a
> conclusive determination as to its source, said police Chief Patrick W.
> Alspaugh.
>
> The chief took the organ Tuesday to Lansing's Sparrow Hospital, where
> forensic scientists were to examine it.
>
> "If it's a human heart, that prompts the question, 'Then where's the body?'"
> Alspaugh told the Kalamazoo Gazette.
>
> He said he didn't know when the forensic scientists will give him their
> findings.
>
> If it turns out that the heart came from an animal, it would not be the
> first time that someone has left animal parts at the car wash
>
> The owner told police that animal parts had been left before at the car
> wash, but never a heart.
>
> Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. 
>
> Ben C.
>
>
>   

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Herb Parsons



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