MIAMI (Reuters) - A man whose amputated, embalmed leg was sold at a North Carolina auction will get the limb back over the objections of the buyer, who wanted to include it in a macabre, money-making Halloween display, police said on Thursday.
The dispute over the leg John Wood lost in an airplane crash three years ago was apparently resolved when police decided the buyer, Shannon Whisnant, had given up ownership by calling authorities and asking them to take it away.
"The simple fact is that he said he didn't want it," said Capt. Tracy Ledford of the Maiden Police Department, who chuckled his way through an interview about the case that has made for lively gossip in the small North Carolina town.
"The guy don't have a leg to stand on," Ledford said. "He's not getting the leg back."
Wood, 42, kept the embalmed leg because he wanted it to be cremated with him when he dies. He stored it in a small barbecue smoker in a Maiden storage unit, but failed to keep up the unit's rent, police said.
The storage company auctioned the smoker on September 25 and Whisnant was the buyer.
When he found the leg, he called police and said he "wanted to get rid of it," but later decided to make some money from it, Ledford said.
"He wanted to show this thing at Halloween and charge money to see it," he said.
Whisnant told local media he was willing to go to court to keep the leg and planned to charge admission to see it -- $3 for adults and $1 for children.
"It's a hell of a conversation piece," he told the Greenville News. "I bought it. It's mine."
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This is from Al Capp, right, along with other characters that appear in the RB graphic stash?
Wikipedia is only a click away, but I've already spent too much time there lately, refreshing my Twilight Zone memory...
I do have a rather serious history of collecting US comics, but I'm a bit holey in my knowledge of older comics or strips.
I'm a big fan of Will Eisner's Spirit, of Alley Opp, or various strips that were translated in french kiddies mags like the one with the two awful brats on that tropical island (Pim, pam et poum in french, ak the krathenhjammer kids or something in english), the one with the vikings, Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond, Mandrake,... but that's about all.
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I think it's supposed to be Hmong. Wausau, Wisconsin has quite a large population of these folks.
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And a Hili Salasi to you, too.
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So its some kind of letter substitution code. Obviously, 'hais' is the word 'said'. In order to read it, you would have to rewrite it with all the letter substitutions, then what are the chances that it would be worth reading ? rijjx ?
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I've been to Wausau no less than a dozen times. From my experience, there can't be enough Hmoob speaking people there to justify The Herald writing articles in it. If that's what it in fact is.
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Is that a challenge, NS? Will I have to go dig out my business cards from 1976 or so and see who's still in business under what names these days, after all the mergers and acquisitions and reverse IPOs and retirements?
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Maybe I'm just evil, but it occurred to me: when cowboys bring a herd of cattle into town, the cattle ends up as hamburger and steaks. What happens to the cats when the catboys bring them into town?
It's not unheard of to see topless women on South Beach. But Tunick will have about 600 men and women baring it all for his camera at the Sagamore.
Nekkid, that's wot they're gonna be.
"It's about fantasy and leisure," he said.
"It's about getting attention. Nothing gets attention like 300 pairs of honkers! And for the ladies, 300 mostly dangling doinkers!"
"It's a stereotype, but it's true. You're going to have a good time if you come to Miami Beach."
"Between the groodies and the baloney, there's fun for the whole family. In a carnal kinda way, of course."
That's the theme of Tunick's latest installation of art.
"Honest to Gawd, it's art. When you get 1200 bare ass cheeks in one place it's gotta be art!"
The artist is known for his photographs of groups of nekkid nude people posed in artistic formations. "I'm going to have 100 to 200 women in pink rafts," he said. "We're going to have people on the balcony posing very much like the Tower of Babel meets Logan's Run. We're going to buy some champagne, 500 bottles, and were going to make a giant explosion for the climax of the installation from the balcony."
Okay. No more yellow comments. When they start self-snarking, what can I do? Write something serious?
The 600 volunteers, most from South Florida, will pose for the New York native. "We have a Dade County cop posing," he said. "Isn't that great? We have flight attendants posing, doctors, lawyers." Those posing are suckers will not be getting paid, but they will receive a limited edition print of the artwork, which will be on display during the show Art Basel in December.
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Please do NOT run that picture any more. I am unable to do more to poke out my mind's eye after seeing it.
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#1 Please do NOT run that picture any more. I am unable to do more to poke out my mind's eye after seeing it.
Admit it, it's just you can't take such a level of arousal. It's very understandable.
It's like that "salmon" self-delusion from one esteemed mod (who sall remain nameless, so not to put him in an akward position), once you stop being in denial, you can work your way toward healing, or acceptance of your own difference. We don't judge you, really.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
