Patra Caesar
31-03-2005, 06:10
Wowee! Why on Earth would you want something like that??? :eek: :confused: What would you do with it? Use it as a home decoration, "ohh, do you like this rug? It goes with A PRESERVED FOETUS!!! :eek: You wouldn't want to use it as a door stop, could break all over that rug... :eek:
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12710448-13762,00.html)
Thieves steal human foetus
From correspondents in Los Angeles
March 31, 2005
POLICE in Los Angeles are hunting for two body snatchers who stole a preserved human foetus from a controversial science exhibit of bodies and body parts.
The thieves were captured on surveillance cameras stealing the body of a 13-week-old human foetus from the exhibit titled Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds 2: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies, police said.
The foetus was preserved through "plastination," a process in which human tissues are soaked with polymers, and was exhibited at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
The exhibitition, which featured a series of "plastinated" human bodies in various poses, was aimed at teaching viewers about anatomy and physiology, but angered some people who slammed the display of corpses that were donated before their deaths.
Angelina Whalley, director of the Institute for Plastination and wife of the inventor of the process was appalled at the theft that took place during the final hours of the exhibition on Saturday, branding it disrespectful.
"We are deeply concerned and disappointed by the theft of this invaluable and irreplaceable specimen," Whalley said.
"Although it is a tragedy that the fetus never made it to life, it is a teaching treasure and educational tool which we preserved for the benefit of public knowledge.
"We ask for the public's assistance to please help determine the whereabouts and secure the return of this historical specimen," she said.
The exhibit, which was open around the clock ahead of its closure on Sunday, followed the first one of its type at the science center that opened last July and drew millions of visitors.
Science Centre President Jeffrey Rudolph said more than 900,000 people from across the United States and 16 million from throughout the world had viewed the exhibit.
"We want the public, which gave its tremendous support to this exhibit, to help us in getting the specimen returned," Rudolph said.
Bet you're about to have second thoughts about finger print ID now, eh?
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12711274-13762,00.html)
Car theft gang steals man's finger
From correspondents in Kuala Lumpur
March 31, 2005
CRIMINALS chopped off the tip of a man's finger in Malaysia to override a high-tech security feature that required his fingerprint to start his luxury car, a report said today.
Accountant K Kumaran, 29, was walking towards his 300,000 ringgit ($102,584) S-Class Mercedes Benz in a Kuala Lumpur suburb on Monday when he was knocked down from behind by a car, the New Straits Times reported.
"I fell face first and four men armed with parangs (machetes) came out of the car," he was quoted as saying.
"They forced me to hand over my car keys and then asked for my car security card (a keyless alarm system needed to start some Mercedes cars)," he said.
"I told them that my car did not have a security card but a system which requires my fingerprint.
"They forced me to put my finger on the panel and then started the car. They bundled me into the back, between the seats and used my tie to blindfold me," he said.
Kumaran was driven to another location where the carjackers asked two other men whether they could bypass the immobiliser system.
When they said they could not, Kumaran was stripped naked and ordered to put his left hand on the ground.
One of the hijackers then used a machete to chop off the tip of Kumaran's index finger.
"I cried out in pain and they pushed me into a drain."
After the men used his chopped-off digit to start the car and sped off, Kumaran removed his blindfold and walked several hundred metres to a highway toll plaza.
Police were called and Kumaran, who was pictured with a bandaged finger, was sent to hospital.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12710448-13762,00.html)
Thieves steal human foetus
From correspondents in Los Angeles
March 31, 2005
POLICE in Los Angeles are hunting for two body snatchers who stole a preserved human foetus from a controversial science exhibit of bodies and body parts.
The thieves were captured on surveillance cameras stealing the body of a 13-week-old human foetus from the exhibit titled Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds 2: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies, police said.
The foetus was preserved through "plastination," a process in which human tissues are soaked with polymers, and was exhibited at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
The exhibitition, which featured a series of "plastinated" human bodies in various poses, was aimed at teaching viewers about anatomy and physiology, but angered some people who slammed the display of corpses that were donated before their deaths.
Angelina Whalley, director of the Institute for Plastination and wife of the inventor of the process was appalled at the theft that took place during the final hours of the exhibition on Saturday, branding it disrespectful.
"We are deeply concerned and disappointed by the theft of this invaluable and irreplaceable specimen," Whalley said.
"Although it is a tragedy that the fetus never made it to life, it is a teaching treasure and educational tool which we preserved for the benefit of public knowledge.
"We ask for the public's assistance to please help determine the whereabouts and secure the return of this historical specimen," she said.
The exhibit, which was open around the clock ahead of its closure on Sunday, followed the first one of its type at the science center that opened last July and drew millions of visitors.
Science Centre President Jeffrey Rudolph said more than 900,000 people from across the United States and 16 million from throughout the world had viewed the exhibit.
"We want the public, which gave its tremendous support to this exhibit, to help us in getting the specimen returned," Rudolph said.
Bet you're about to have second thoughts about finger print ID now, eh?
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12711274-13762,00.html)
Car theft gang steals man's finger
From correspondents in Kuala Lumpur
March 31, 2005
CRIMINALS chopped off the tip of a man's finger in Malaysia to override a high-tech security feature that required his fingerprint to start his luxury car, a report said today.
Accountant K Kumaran, 29, was walking towards his 300,000 ringgit ($102,584) S-Class Mercedes Benz in a Kuala Lumpur suburb on Monday when he was knocked down from behind by a car, the New Straits Times reported.
"I fell face first and four men armed with parangs (machetes) came out of the car," he was quoted as saying.
"They forced me to hand over my car keys and then asked for my car security card (a keyless alarm system needed to start some Mercedes cars)," he said.
"I told them that my car did not have a security card but a system which requires my fingerprint.
"They forced me to put my finger on the panel and then started the car. They bundled me into the back, between the seats and used my tie to blindfold me," he said.
Kumaran was driven to another location where the carjackers asked two other men whether they could bypass the immobiliser system.
When they said they could not, Kumaran was stripped naked and ordered to put his left hand on the ground.
One of the hijackers then used a machete to chop off the tip of Kumaran's index finger.
"I cried out in pain and they pushed me into a drain."
After the men used his chopped-off digit to start the car and sped off, Kumaran removed his blindfold and walked several hundred metres to a highway toll plaza.
Police were called and Kumaran, who was pictured with a bandaged finger, was sent to hospital.