Legal Action Taken Against King County For Harvesting Brains

[icymist]

Legal Action Taken Against King County For Harvesting Brains

POSTED: 4:23 pm PDT April 8, 2005
UPDATED: 5:02 pm PDT April 8, 2005

SEATTLE -- The family of a man whose brain was harvested by the King County Medical Examiner's Office is taking legal action against the county, Team 7 Investigators reported.

The family claims the Medical Examiner harvested and then traded the brain without their consent.

This action comes just one week after KIRO Team 7 Investigators exposed how King County mailed at least 180 brains to a private East Coast research lab.

Invoices prove more than $1 million came back to the Medical Examiner's Office in return.

Dozens of grieving next-of-kin said King County used unethical tactics to get permission to harvest the brains.
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[hippiechick]

1. Can we contract to have them send a few to Indiana ?

This state could really use an influx .... ;)

[AwakeAtLast]

2. O. K., I'm queasy on just the title alone

:puke:

That's so despicable! Those poor families!

The even worse part is that I am sure that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Sad. Very sad. :(

[saigon68]

8. Jeffrey Dahmer harvested Testicles

And kept them in his refrigerator for "Later Snacking"

[whistle]

3. Of exactly what use can a harvested dead brain be to anyone...

...unless the lab.....wait....IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE....OH GOD IT'S ALIVE....HUMHAHAHAHA!:evilgrin:

[MileHiStealth]

Has Chimpy McCokespoon ever been in King County ?

I have a theory ....

[icymist]

4. More of this story from last week can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1360971

[sasquatch]

5. Plea bargain please

Tell them you'll drop the charges if they send one to 1600 Pennsylvania avenue.

[daleo]

6. The brain would die of loneliness there. n/t

[burrowowl]

7. ROTFLMAO! eom

[Voltaire99]

9. Mmmmm... Braaaaaaaainssssss

"Send more homeless people's brains!"

Sorry; with all due sympathy to the "dozens of grieving next-of-kin" who now have a brainless corpse, they only planned to bury the bloody thing, anyway.

This way, at least, there is the potential for scientific benefit in a program designed to study mental illness.

Better science and mankind than the worms!