Bus Passenger Finds Human Skull Inside Purse

[Champ]

NANAIMO, British Columbia - A bus passenger checking an unattended purse for identification found a human skull inside, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

A woman spotted the purse on a bench at a bus stop a few blocks from the downtown area in this Vancouver Island town and immediately brought it to police, shaken by the discovery, Constable Jack Eubank said Monday.

"She was headed to the ferry, just carrying on normal business, and then found this thing," Eubank said.

After the woman brought it to police Nov. 30, the skull was sent to Simon Fraser University in Burnaby for analysis by a forensic anthropologist. Another couple of weeks of testing is needed to answer such questions as gender and approximate time of death, Eubank said.

The skull is not a new specimen and could have been found and kept by someone, he added.

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[tk2kewl]

1. ha...

"She was headed to the ferry"

[Der Blaue Engel]

2. Damn, you beat me to it

(And why can't *I* find a skull in a purse on the bus? Canadians have all the fun.)

[tk2kewl]

3. lol

Canadians have all the fun

[iconoclastic cat]

4. That sounds like Gogol's "The Nose."

I wonder if somebody woke up with a mushy head today!