Body parts found in leaking FedEx package

[jazz lady]

KIRKWOOD, Missouri -- FedEx workers discovered a shipment of two human legs and an arm when one of the boxes was found leaking at a company depot, police said.

A Las Vegas donor research company sent the limbs to a man who sells body parts to doctors for use in research projects, Kirkwood police spokeswoman Diane Scanga said. The FBI, state agencies and local police determined no laws were broken, she said.

The shipment was discovered Wednesday when one of the boxes was found leaking at a FedEx depot in nearby St. Louis. Workers learned each package contained a limb, wrapped in dry ice.

Police refused to identify the man, who was issued a warning for apparently operating an unlicensed home business.

It is against FedEx policy to ship body parts, said Howard Clabo, a spokesman for the Memphis-based company.

There are SO many jokes that could be made about this one...

 

[Sharon]

Maybe he wanted to get a leg up on the competition. :shrug:

 

[Pete]

Cadavergram for Mongo

 

[L8DNRED]

I thought everything was x-ray'd. Wouldn't the limbs have shown up then? :shrug:

 

[tater]

DAMNIT! Another freak from Missouri . It's gone completely downhill since I left

 

[mainman]

Originally posted by tater
DAMNIT! Another freak from Missouri . It's gone completely downhill since I left

yeah, thats why it went downhill... you left...

 

[tater]

Originally posted by mainman
yeah, thats why it went downhill... you left...

I know, that's what I said.

 

[Nanny Pam]

What!!!!! No pics???

 

[jazz lady]

Still no pics, but...

Man Pledges to Stop Storing Body Parts

KIRKWOOD, Mo. - _ A man has apparently promised authorities he'll stop storing and brokering human body parts out of his home.

Richard Leutheuser, a designer and builder of swimming pools who dabbles in providing donated body parts for science, says he's working with this St. Louis suburb to find a location where zoning allows his sidelight business.

Leutheuser's business surfaced last month when FedEx workers opened leaking packages bound for his home and found an arm and two legs, each limb wrapped and placed in dry ice.

Leutheuser said he was a middleman for a California-based company, and investigators said he did nothing wrong, aside from having an unlicensed home business. City zoning rules also bar the storage of business inventory in a residential area, whether "they're body parts or whatever," said Dan Niebaum, Kirkwood city planner.

Leutheuser has told the city he would move that business to a site commercially zoned, Niebaum said.