Authentic skulls apparently for sale

[Nephew Twiddleton]

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek police charged two U.S. tourists with desecrating the dead on Thursday after they found six human skulls in their hand luggage at Athens international airport, a police official said.

More here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100916/od_nm/us_skull_luggage_odd_1

Also, JOAF Challenge

[Freeky]

Goddammit.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Goddammit.

Which part?

[Freeky]

Goddammit.

Which part?

two U.S. tourists

Can we elect to not be Americans even if we were born here.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Goddammit.

Which part?

two U.S. tourists

Can we elect to not be Americans even if we were born here.

Ah, lol

[Cain]

There seems to be a thriving trade in human body parts from NATO troops in Afghanistan:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2216412,00.html - skulls!
http://newsone.com/world/associatedpress3/u-s-soldiers-charged-with-collecting-fingers-of-dead-afghan-soldiers/ - fingers AND skulls!

[Requia ☣]

Can we elect to not be Americans even if we were born here.

No, living here for any length of time taints you, you will always be an American.

[Freeky]

Can we elect to not be Americans even if we were born here.

No, living here for any length of time taints you, you will always be an American.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

There seems to be a thriving trade in human body parts from NATO troops in Afghanistan:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2216412,00.html - skulls!
http://newsone.com/world/associatedpress3/u-s-soldiers-charged-with-collecting-fingers-of-dead-afghan-soldiers/ - fingers AND skulls!

Weird, I wonder what's going on with this sort of thing...

THough, I do recall a case of grave desecration in Fitchburg, MA a couple of years ago where some guy stole a skull from a cemetary and made it into an ashtray. Not a new thing but always wtf to hear about.

[The Johnny]

Ive heard of some guy breaking into a mortuary, ripping the head of somebody (some-body, get it? HAHA), later doing a head shriking sort of thing on it, and finally put it in an aquarium.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Ive heard of some guy breaking into a mortuary, ripping the head of somebody (some-body, get it? HAHA), later doing a head shriking sort of thing on it, and finally put it in an aquarium.

Now that is pretty messed up...

[Cain]

There seems to be a thriving trade in human body parts from NATO troops in Afghanistan:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2216412,00.html - skulls!
http://newsone.com/world/associatedpress3/u-s-soldiers-charged-with-collecting-fingers-of-dead-afghan-soldiers/ - fingers AND skulls!

Weird, I wonder what's going on with this sort of thing...

THough, I do recall a case of grave desecration in Fitchburg, MA a couple of years ago where some guy stole a skull from a cemetary and made it into an ashtray. Not a new thing but always wtf to hear about.

This seems to be a trophy thing, among the troops.  As far as I've read at least.  I know it's not exactly the same kind of trophy taking as, say, serial killers do, but it's close enough to make me think about what all these death squads are gonna do once their service is up.

[The Johnny]

Because deep down in our monkey brains -we know for a fact-  owning the skull of your enemy is owning his soul.

[Richter]

I like the idea, but I already have a skull (other than the occupied one).  It's a bottle formerly full of good vodka that perches on one of my ominously cluttered shelves. 

I don't personally see anything wrong with keeping old body parts around.  This body part double standard drives me nuts too!  It's jsut fine to have my own medically extracted skeleton parts hanging around, but the moment I'm dead it becomes a crime? 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

There seems to be a thriving trade in human body parts from NATO troops in Afghanistan:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2216412,00.html - skulls!
http://newsone.com/world/associatedpress3/u-s-soldiers-charged-with-collecting-fingers-of-dead-afghan-soldiers/ - fingers AND skulls!

Weird, I wonder what's going on with this sort of thing...

THough, I do recall a case of grave desecration in Fitchburg, MA a couple of years ago where some guy stole a skull from a cemetary and made it into an ashtray. Not a new thing but always wtf to hear about.

This seems to be a trophy thing, among the troops.  As far as I've read at least.  I know it's not exactly the same kind of trophy taking as, say, serial killers do, but it's close enough to make me think about what all these death squads are gonna do once their service is up.

Oh, this seriously worries me.