@emperorofpluto

2 years ago

Just re the severed leg. My mum is a doctor and she used to teach Anatomy in a medical school. When my brother and I were kids we used to hang around the department while she was off lecturing - there were so many creepy things there including a gallery with real body parts and babies in jars of formaldehyde. Mum had lots of medical things that used to freak me out, like a real human skull with a spring-loaded jaw and I had nightmares for years after discovering a forensic medicine text which had photographs of gunshot wounds, awe wounds and human bodies in different stages of decomposition. Mum used to get someone to look after us while she was teaching but I still vividly remember walking into the morgue and seeing the cadaver of a relatively young man being cut down the middle with a circular saw. Anyhow, what I was going to say is that Medical students have access to cadavers and body parts and have been known to do terrible things with them. When I was at university I recall there was a bunch of med students who filmed themselves driving through a manual toll booth on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and they used a severed human arm to give the toll to the attendant - then drove away leaving the arm behind. They thought it was hilarious.

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