back to article 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 …

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  1. perlcat
    Black Helicopters

    Missing the point.

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

    1. Aaron Em

      Honestly

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

  2. David 45

    Amusing

    Dead funny, eh?

  3. Local Group
    Happy

    Instead of 'perishable', it should have said:

    " We who are already dead, salute you."

    1. Anonymous Coward
      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?

      1. 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?

        1. Anonymous Coward
          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

          1. 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?

      2. hplasm
        Devil

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

        "Perished."

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

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

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    No Soylent green jokes yet?

    No Soylent green jokes yet?

    What is the world coming to?

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    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

    1. Dan 10

      Damn

      That's made me hungry again.

  7. skeptical i
    Pirate

    Mmmmmm, long pig!

    It IS barbecue season, after all.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    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. :)

  9. LinkOfHyrule
    Paris Hilton

    Reminds me of manbeef.com

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Clarice calling

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

  11. Silent but Deadly
    Coat

    Where to store a torso?

    Chest freezer, perhaps?

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Meat is meat

    some folk are uncommonly fussy about where it comes from

    1. TeeCee Gold badge
      Coat

      Re: Meat is meat

      Ah, but some say that meat is murder.

      That'll be a crime scene now then.

      1. Omgwtfbbqtime

        Re: Meat is murder

        Juicy tasty murder......

        1. Local Group
          Holmes

          Re: Meat is murder. Murder most delicious..

          As in the best it is.

  13. Pete the not so great
    Pint

    that happened to me once

    And my luggage ended up in Mexico

  14. wowfood

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

  15. pwibble
    Joke

    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.

  16. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    A fan of "Firefly" perhaps,...

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

  17. Lamont Cranston

    "BJ's"

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

    OK, I'm done.

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