Body-patrs For Sale Bad...

Read it at the LATimes...

Businessman found guilty in UCLA's willed body-parts program scandal
By Jack Leonard, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
11:16 AM PDT, May 14, 2009
A businessman accused of selling body parts from corpses donated to UCLA medical school in a scandal that tarnished the reputation of the university's willed body program was found guilty today in Los Angeles Superior Court of conspiring to commit grand theft, embezzlement and tax evasion .

The Monks - Complication

My Super Sweet Funeral

A somewhat amusing take on the dreadful "real" show...

Precision Miniatures 1:18 1921 Ford Model T Hearse

A web video review of the Precision Miniatures 1:18 1921 Ford Model T Hearse comes our way from Night~Doings contributor Doug Hart...

Joe Kelly, Jr. from The Car Room hams it up in this Playing With Cars segment showing off key features and details. Can't embed, so watch the video here.

Westside Rentals advert hearse getting impounded

From LA Metro Blog, a post and picture of Westside Rentals advertising hearse getting towed away. I didn't even know Westside Rentals was using a hearse to advertise.

See it here.

Joe Gets Goth

Caught this bit on current TV... Nyuk nyuk... Ya gotta have a sense of humour even if your soul traps light like a black hole...


If embed doesn't work, link is HERE.

Bonetrade article @ Wired

A quick, worthwhile read in the Dec. 2007 issue of Wired on the illicit bone trade originating in India.

Inside India's Underground Trade in Human Remains
By Scott Carney

A constable in a sweat-stained undershirt and checkered blue sarong lays a ragged cloth over a patch of mud. He jerks open the back door of a decrepit Indian-made Tata Sumo SUV — what passes for an evidence locker at this rustic police outpost in the Indian state of West Bengal. A hundred human skulls tumble out onto the cloth, making a hollow clatter as they fall to the ground. They've lost most of their teeth bouncing around the back of the truck. Bits of bone and enamel scatter like snowflakes around the growing pile.

Standing next to the truck, the ranking officer smiles and lets out a satisfied grunt. "Now you can see how big the bone business is here," he says. I crouch down and pick up a skull. It's lighter than I expected. I hold it up to my nose. It smells like fried chicken.

Before the authorities intercepted it, this cache was moving along a well-established pipeline for human skeletal remains. For 150 years, India's bone trade has followed a route from remote Indian villages to the world's most distinguished medical schools.

...go read the rest...