Heading To Texas

This story has special meaning for me. I was once employed as a Shipping Supervisor at a local manufacturing company. The transportion of hazardous materials is a laborious process. There are lots of regulations to follow and lots of paperwork involved. In fact, failing to follow proper procedures could put the signer of the airbill in extremely hot water.

I can imagine the process for shipping medical waste and body parts for medical purposes is just as arduous a task, if not more so. All I can say is that some poor shipping supervisor--who was probably being pushed by upper management to meet a deadline--is gonna have their head chopped over this incident.

(I will spare you by not posting a picture of cadaveric donors.)

Southwest Airlines employee finds human heads on their way to Fort Worth

A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding 40 to 60 human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said.

"It wasn't labeled or packaged properly," said Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman. "They called the local authorities."

The incident happened in Little Rock, Ark., last Wednesday, she said.

Little Rock police turned the heads over to the county coroner, who questions where they came from and if they were properly obtained.

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