"Human Chop Shop" discovered in Arizona :O (1 Viewer)

[Good Posting Judge]

https://gizmodo.com/fbi-finds-bucket-of-heads-cooler-of-penises-sewn-fran-1836697819

cc: @shuke

 

[Dezbelief]

Hannibal Lecter wants to know if there's a meat locker. 

 

[northern exposure]

Jeffrey Dahmer says "Hold my beer".

 

[AAABatteries]

That's disturbing - thanks posty

 

[shuke]

cc: @shuke

what?

 

[Good Posting Judge]

what?

Just seems like it'd be up your alley.

 

[AAABatteries]

Just seems like it'd be up your alley.

Wasn't that like one of the major plot lines in Eraserhead?

 

[beer 30]

Read this story yesterday, some seriously gruesome stuff going on there but in case you think this happened yesterday, it didn't:

"In 2013, federal authorities began investigating shady “body brokers,” businesses that sell donated bodies for research purposes, such as Arizona’s for-profit Biological Resource Center. That company was shuttered following an FBI raid in 2014, but eyewitness details are being made public for the first time—and they’re almost too grisly to believe."

 

[Gianni Verscotchie]

Who is buying body parts? For what reason?

 

[Doug B]

Who is buying body parts? For what reason?

The link in the OP explains it. There are legitimate research purposes for the purchase and sale of properly-procured human cadavers, and there are legitimate businesses providing services in this realm.  What happened here is that a "body broker" company skirted the regulations, illegally obtained bodies that were meant to be cremated, obtained bodies in some other unspecified ways, and sought to undercut legitimate operators by selling well under market value. On top of that, some of the "body broker's" employees, charitably, had a yen for the macabre and treated the bodies both gruesomely and disrespectfully (to say the least).

 

[Wrigley]

Zombie meat?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Zombie meat?

Zombies would be the good guys in a movie based on this story. You gonna illegally sell and mess around with my body?  I'm gonna eat yer brain.

 

[shuke]

Who is buying body parts? For what reason?

For research or reprocessing certain tissues for sale for surgical procedures.  

 

[jrt103]

From the article:           "In almost every state, selling non-transplantable human body parts is legal as long as they are not fetuses."

legal to sell but how would one acquire such things?  How much could I get for my pinkie finger?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

From the article:           "In almost every state, selling non-transplantable human body parts is legal as long as they are not fetuses."

legal to sell but how would one acquire such things?  How much could I get for my pinkie finger?

In the old days the mob would cut off a pinkie for not paying back a loanshark or bookie. Not sure at what price they started cutting off other things.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I wonder if anyone has ever grafted a toe where a finger once was.

 

[NotSmart]

I wonder if anyone has ever grafted a toe where a finger once was.

I wonder where that finger once was.

 

[shuke]

I wonder if anyone has ever grafted a toe where a finger once was.

Of course.  Or did I miss a joke here?