dude. organlegging.

[rmd]

cnn article here about people stealing organs from dead people and making money off the transplants.

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[cz_unit]

GRave robbers. Ah, the good olde days are back.

CZ

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Wow. How very nineteenth century. Except, y'know. The actual transplant part. o.o

[sethg]

They organlegged Alistair Cooke?! Have they no shame?

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Where have you people been? This first hit the BBC on December 22 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4552742.stm)...

And have they no STANDARDS? Those bones were 95 years old!

[catness.livejournal.com]

stale old organs! yicccccch!

[scottro.livejournal.com]

Organlegging. Never heard that term before. Interesting.

Some crimes are timeless, I suppose.

77

[rmd.livejournal.com]

the term was invented by larry niven for at least one of his science fiction short stories set in the future. i think the first was "the jigsaw man", but i may be misremembering.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

also, that user pic of the hat kind of looks like pickled ginger laid out on the corner of a sushi board.

[scottro.livejournal.com]

Got to cleanse the palate, you know.

77

[bookly.livejournal.com]

That's really horrifying.

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

Oh ick. I'm even more glad I delayed my knee surgery now. I would have been receiving donor material and this place while stealing also wasn't screening.

[gayathri.livejournal.com]

You know, this was an episode of NCIS recently enough that I wondered if it was from a real story.

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ew.