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Give The Little Lady A Hand!

Farnhamia
02-03-2007, 19:29
I miss New Jersey!

Doctor Who Stole Cadaver Hand Is Fined

AP

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (March 1) - A young doctor who admitted to severing a hand from a cadaver as a medical student, then giving it to a stripper, was fined Thursday and told to stay out of trouble for 15 months.

Ahmed Rashed, 27, pleaded guilty last month to a reduced charge of third-degree theft. If he violates the terms of what the judge called "non-supervised probation," he could be brought back to court and sentenced to as many as five years in prison. He also was fined $5,000.

Rashed's attorney, Kalman Geist, had asked for 16 months' probation, a period that would coincide with the completion of his medical residency. Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Judson Hamlin had asked for five years' probation.

Rashed would have been prohibited from seeking a license to practice medicine in New Jersey if he had been put on traditional probation.

In court, Rashed apologized, saying that he meant no harm and that he has outgrown the immaturity he displayed.

"It does not excuse the action," he said.

Geist said he wants to put the incident behind him: "He made a silly mistake."

Rashed gave the hand to exotic dancer Linda Kay, 31, during a visit to the club where she worked. He got to know her while he was a first-year medical student in 2002. She wanted a cadaver's hand, authorities said, and he complied.

Geist said his client removed the hand from a cadaver at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark that was scheduled for cremation, and was unaware that what he did was illegal. He graduated in 2005.

Authorities said the hand was found in a jar on Kay's dresser in her home last summer. Friends have said she called it "Freddy."

Kay was charged with unlawful disposal of human remains. She enrolled in a counseling program, and if she complies with its terms for one year, her criminal record will be erased.

Rashed had been in a residency program at Martin Luther King Hospital in Los Angeles, but will continue his residency at Maimonides Medical Center in New York.
Agerias
02-03-2007, 19:31
Hahaha. Why would she need a hand?
Isidoor
02-03-2007, 19:31
wtf why did she want a hand?

and why did he graduate in 3 years?
Nova Magna Germania
02-03-2007, 19:43
Hahaha. Why would she need a hand?

Umm, ew.

One question, though...Why did she need a cadavar hand? Did she not already have two of her own?

To finger herself?
Farnhamia
02-03-2007, 19:43
Umm, ew.

One question, though...Why did she need a cadavar hand? Did she not already have two of her own?

She is an "exotic dancer," perhaps she's working on a new routine ... :eek:

EDIT: Damn time warps!
The Literate Elite
02-03-2007, 19:45
Umm, ew.

One question, though...Why did she need a cadavar hand? Did she not already have two of her own?
Boonytopia
03-03-2007, 01:52
What an unusual present to give your girlfriend.
Hamilay
03-03-2007, 01:57
Following in the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh without the pain?
IL Ruffino
03-03-2007, 02:00
He stole the hand.. cut it off? Then.. gave it to.. a stripper?

The fuck?!
Utracia
03-03-2007, 02:09
It is perfectly understandable, I mean, who wouldn't want a person's hand? You could bring it out during parties, use it for a paperweight, start on gathering characters for an Addams family remake... there are many possibilities!
Johnny B Goode
03-03-2007, 02:09
I miss New Jersey!

Whoa. Why would anyone want to jack off with that?
Sel Appa
03-03-2007, 03:02
JF CHRIST! New Brunswick is the next town over from me!
Non Aligned States
03-03-2007, 04:34
Makes a totally new perspective on the saying "give me a hand" doesn't it?
Darknovae
03-03-2007, 04:35
JF CHRIST! New Brunswick is the next town over from me!

:eek:

If you want stupid crime, come to my county. One guy got arrested for robbing someone, then stole the sherriff's car and drove it into the sound. :eek:

Yeah... irrelevant...

But :eek: why would a stripper need a dead person's hand??!?!?! :eek:
Hamilay
03-03-2007, 04:36
It is perfectly understandable, I mean, who wouldn't want a person's hand? You could bring it out during parties, use it for a paperweight, start on gathering characters for an Addams family remake... there are many possibilities!
Yeah, it's a handy item to have.

*ducks tomatoes*
Egg and Chips II
03-03-2007, 04:40
I believe, from when I read this story a while a go, that she was trying to set up a more extreme gothic/death theme to her flat... Drags a certain type of punter in I suppose...
Darknovae
03-03-2007, 04:42
I believe, from when I read this story a while a go, that she was trying to set up a more extreme gothic/death theme to her flat... Drags a certain type of punter in I suppose...

Dude.... there are so many Halloween stores she could have gone to for a (fake) svered hand.... :eek:
Luporum
03-03-2007, 04:43
As a med student, where did he get the money to frequent a strip club?
Darknovae
03-03-2007, 04:46
As a med student, where did he get the money to frequent a strip club?

Good quesiton.