Missing: Lung……Last Seen: Inside Cadaver At ‘Bodies’ Show

October 7th, 2009 |

Author: Staff

Lung has been stolen from Bodies Exhinition in Peru

To all our Peruvian readers: be on the lookout for someone offering you a human lung. Reporting them could net you $2000. That’s the reward on offer for anyone returning (‘anonymously’) a lung which was stolen from one of those travelling anatomy shows recently.

As The Associated Press reports:

The left lung was taken in Peru from “Bodies: The Exhibition,” which has traveled the globe displaying cadavers preserved through a process that replaces water in biological tissues with polymers. The organ disappeared from an area where visitors can touch preserved cadavers.” In the whole world this has never happened,” said Susan Hoefken, manager of Lima-based Impacto, the company presenting the exhibition.

Remember, folks, that’s a left lung. If you get offered a polymerically-preserved right lung, that’s fine, go ahead and stick it on your mantelpiece.

To be brutally honest, I’m amazed noone’s ever stolen bodyparts from these shows before now. I’ve been to a couple, and believe me, my wife had to physically stop me from grabbing a flayed penis each time.

Don’t Hold Your Breath, But This May Lead To: buggered if I know, really. People getting searched on their way out of the exhibitions for robbed rectums, nicked nipples and pilfered penises?

A $2,000 reward — no questions asked — was offered Tuesday for the return of the lung. It has no commercial value but will be costly to replace, Hoefken said.

She described the embarrassment of reporting the Monday theft to the show’s owner, Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions.

“They told us to recover the lung somehow,” Hoefken said.

The exhibition travels next to Colombia.