US Customs seized a human brain on its way from Toronto to Wisconsin

pesco · February 21, 2020, 8:08am

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/21/us-customs-seized-a-human-brai.html

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sluggo · February 21, 2020, 8:26am

Are we sure it wasn’t from Mar-A-Lago

SheiffFatman · February 21, 2020, 9:49am

Ministry · February 21, 2020, 10:23am

The brain specimen is being investigated by the CDC for…
… a decision on what to do with the specimen.

So they’re going to ask it?

FSogol · February 21, 2020, 11:41am

Send it to the White House. They are in short supply there.

d_r · February 21, 2020, 12:08pm

When I was a teenager, the drinking age in Illinois was 21 but the drinking age in Wisconsin was 18. I don’t know about the brain drain to Kenosha, but many of us had our brains drained before returning from there.

Also,

benignbodger · February 21, 2020, 12:24pm

You beat me to it. I suspect that the specimen in the jar is in better condition and functions better than the one in the Oval Office.

Khoryos · February 21, 2020, 1:09pm

Apparently, the brain came from someone called “Abby Normal”.

Dioptase1 · February 21, 2020, 1:21pm

My wife was given a human brain in what looks like a big pickle jar. But that’s another story.

So one day, I get in her car and ask “Did you go to Taco Bell?” “No.” “Hmm, smells like Taco Bell in here.”

Next day: “You went to Taco Bell without me.” “Nooo.” “It smells like Taco Bell in here!”

We learned 1 of 2 things that day. Either:

Taco Bell smells like human brains.
or
Human brains smell like Taco Bell.

(I don’t know what that brain is preserved in, but dang if it doesn’t smell EXACTLY like Taco Bell to me.)

RickMycroft · February 21, 2020, 1:24pm

Why would anyone need a brain in Kenosha?

Papasan · February 21, 2020, 2:02pm

Did anyone taste it, science never sleeps.

NashRambler · February 21, 2020, 3:30pm

Well, they were going to use the one marked “Hans Delbruck”, but there was this, er, accident. . . .

Scientist · February 21, 2020, 3:42pm

So my first lab gig was comparative neuroanatomy of primate brains. We would get shipments of human brains from a hospital in Chicago, and it always amazed me that they would be delivered by random delivery people with no idea what was in the box. Usually there was no biohazard label or anything.

IronEdithKidd · February 21, 2020, 3:59pm

UW - Parkside might be the intended recipient?

Mangochin · February 21, 2020, 4:01pm

Came here for the Marty Feldman reference. Thanks!

Mangochin · February 21, 2020, 4:03pm

jrkrideau · February 21, 2020, 5:39pm

Please return to
The Hon. Doug Ford
Premier’s Office
Room 281
Legislative Building, Queen’s Park
Toronto,
ON
M7A 1A1

There is no hurry, he never used it anyway

ChuckV · February 21, 2020, 6:14pm

NashRambler · February 21, 2020, 6:16pm

Ah, the credit rightly goes to u/Khoryos; I just picked up what they put down.

deepeyes · February 21, 2020, 6:39pm

Thank you. Ew.