Courier mishap sends woman's corpse to shopping club

A mix-up at a freight forwarding firm meant a dead woman's torso was diverted from a research facility in Florida and shipped to a wholesale shopping club in Massachusetts instead. Staff at the headquarters of BJ's Wholessales Club's HQ in Westborough, Mass, were initially unconcerned when the comparatively large package …

[perlcat]

Missing the point.

Fred! I think we've got an 'eater'!

[Aaron Em]

Honestly

I'd prefer a reference to Ms Stob's latest. Where's the fun when everyone's doing it, dear?

[David 45]

Amusing

Dead funny, eh?

[Local Group]

Instead of 'perishable', it should have said:

" We who are already dead, salute you."

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Instead of 'perishable', it should have said:

Except that it was just the torso that turned up.

Ever seen an armless man do a salute?

[Local Group]

Re: Ever seen an armless man do a salute

And if this alleged torso had a tattoo of a saluting Centurian on its sternum, would that satisfy you?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Ever seen an armless man do a salute

> And if this alleged torso had a tattoo of a saluting Centurian on its sternum, would that satisfy you?

Ahh, but that's a picture of a saluting Centurian, not the actual torso saluting, now isn't it? :-P

[Local Group]

Re: Ever seen an armless man do a salute

Perhaps I should have put this way.

We who are already dead and tattooed with a saluting Centurian - one or the other of us - salute you.

Better?

[hplasm]

Re: Instead of 'perishable', it should have said:

"Perished."

[Anonymous Coward]

Should have come with a note - next time it's your horses head

[Anonymous Coward]

No Soylent green jokes yet?

No Soylent green jokes yet?

What is the world coming to?

[Anonymous Coward]

MISERABLE TALE

I CANT IMAGINE THE STUPIDITY OF THOSE INVOLVED IN SHIPPING A DEAD WOMANS TORSO INSTEAD OF STEAKS TO A WHOLESALE CLUB THIS STORY MAKES ME WANT TO EAT MY FINGERS OFF AND SPIT THEM INTO A BLENDER AND THEN MIXING SOME BEEFEATERS AND SOME CELERY SEED IN WITH CLUB SODA AND CREATING

[Dan 10]

Damn

That's made me hungry again.

[skeptical i]

Mmmmmm, long pig!

It IS barbecue season, after all.

[Anonymous Coward]

Not an American, so ...

.. Just wondered about this bit "a local cop told the local CBS radio news". I just wonder if that is as in fed them the information or, or simply responded to a question? Sorry, lots of phone hacking going on over here in the UK, and I believe you guys have much the same people controlling the news over there too. :)

[LinkOfHyrule]

Reminds me of manbeef.com

[Anonymous Coward]

Clarice calling

was it delivered with some fava beans and a nice chianti.?

[Silent but Deadly]

Where to store a torso?

Chest freezer, perhaps?

[Anonymous Coward]

Meat is meat

some folk are uncommonly fussy about where it comes from

[TeeCee]

Re: Meat is meat

Ah, but some say that meat is murder.

That'll be a crime scene now then.

[Omgwtfbbqtime]

Re: Meat is murder

Juicy tasty murder......

[Local Group]

Re: Meat is murder. Murder most delicious..

As in the best it is.

[Pete the not so great]

that happened to me once

And my luggage ended up in Mexico

[wowfood]

I never realised you could ship corpses in the mail. This is going to make my murder intimidation so much easier.

[pwibble]

Told you...

.... they should have used Arial instead of Courier. Proportional fonts are so much easier for the people working at the distribution centre to read.

[Anonymous Coward]

A fan of "Firefly" perhaps,...

but forgot to first check if the old war-buddy was still working there.

[Lamont Cranston]

"BJ's"

Hee hee, "BJ's". Look, it says "BJ's". BJ's!

OK, I'm done.