Medical waste shipments turn up heads, torsos

[Elmore Furth]

Medical waste is supposed to be incinerated -- I thought.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The human head and torso were inside the red biohazard tub in what was supposed to be a routine shipment of medical waste from New Mexico to a Kansas company.

Over the next few days, six more heads and torsos apparently dismembered with a chain saw or another cutting device turned up in containers also sent by the Albuquerque company Bio Care Southwest.

Bio Care owner Paul Montano was arrested Thursday following an investigation into the company that was supposed to have donated the organs in the bodies to science and had the remains cremated.

One man whose father's remains showed up in the shipment in Kansas said the family received ashes of what they thought was their 83-year-old dad after he died of a stroke.

Medical waste shipments turn up heads, torsos

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. NO!!! You CAN'T...

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...search my trunk. Why aren't you out in New Mexico bothering
the real dismembered body parts criminals?.
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[triguy46]

2. True story...

I was COO of a hospital in 1990 and one day roaming the hospital my lab director says, "Hey, why don't you open that freezer and see what we have wrapped up in there." So I proceeded cautiously, with a career in healthcare, I know when I'm being set up, but I proceeded to do as directed. I slowly unwrapped this massive frozen "thing" about 3 feet long, and finally IT'S A FRICKIN' LEG that had been amputated earlier, waiting for the funeral home to pick it up, but that part is another story.

[jmowreader]

3. I saw this in the Fayettenam paper

The headline read "human body parts turn up at waste disposal plant."

Hang on for a second...waste disposal plant? That's the official name for a Soylent factory!