Zombies?
That would have been my immediate line of inquiry.
Edit: Mark, check out those 'environmental workers', I wonder how they might have disposed of the brains.
It's an embarrassing situation that's happened to most students after too much snakebite and black. One minute you're in the pub with mates, the next you find yourself idiotically clutching onto a stolen traffic cone or, you know ... a jar of brains. At least that's what professors at the University of Texas long assumed had …
Jeremy's head was never on display, it was damaged in the embalming process and is kept in a wooden box, at one time at his feet. The visible head is a wax copy.
Whether Jeremy's head was ever stolen by King's is uncertain, the students tended to target the mascots, which, for UCL, was a Scottish Highlander figure taken from a tobacconist's shop on Tottenham Court Road.
I'm particularly fond of the story that Jeremy's head is still taken to Council meetings, where he is recorded as "present, but not voting".
This is the story of Crazy Eric, from twenty years ago. At the end of my third year in high school, one of our favorite bio teachers ever was retiring after teaching there forever, and the room needed to be cleaned out. So my friends and I, including Crazy Eric, decided to volunteer to help after class. One of the many strange and ancient artifacts we unearthed was a large glass jar of formaldehyde with a perfectly preserved octopus inside it. Crazy Eric grabs it and starts trying to pry it open, when the teacher notices him and says "What the HELL are you doing?". Crazy Eric looks up and says, absolutely deadpan seriously (and he WAS serious, seriously crazy) "I'm gonna F*** THIS OCTOPUS".
A researcher I knew from the US National Institutes of Health was said to have lost a dozen or so male organs being shipped to her from Asia. I think that they were frozen, but it has been quite a while since I heard the story. And I never heard what the actual recipients thought when they found that package on the porch.
"A researcher I knew from the US National Institutes of Health was said to have lost a dozen or so male organs being shipped to her from Asia. I think that they were frozen, but it has been quite a while since I heard the story."
It seems unlikely. When I worked in medical research we used to receive body parts and blood samples from around the world, frozen and packed in dry ice. The containers tend to have a large ratio of dry ice to sample hence they are the size of picnic cool box (they often are picnic coolboxes), so losing one is a bit difficult to start with. Going back to the 1980s airlines have been notoriously reluctant to ship dry ice anywhere and often insist that the containers are accompanied by a human being which again reduces the chance of them going astray.