Here's the weird organ transplant story of today. A heart, maybe a human one, was found on the floor of a car wash in Michigan. Investigators are trying to determine if it's a human heart or from another species. No word on if Dick Cheney had recently washed his car there.
I don't get it. We know the Vice President has a history of heart problems. Is the suggestion that he carries a spare?
I just automatically default to Dick Cheney when it comes to heart jokes, I guess.
so...doctors can't tell the difference between a human heart and that of another animal? ...hmmm...a little sad and suspicious....but is that true. is a human heart so similar to many other species that a doctor cannot identify it?
I don't know about hearts, specifically, but I attended a lecture a few years ago given by forensic anthropologist William R. Maples (the author of "Dead Men Do Tell Tales"). In his talk, he described a case in which a hunter discovered some remains that appeared to be human hands, and triggered a police investigation. It turned out that the hands (paws?) originally belonged to a bear. The anatomical differences were obvious to a forensic anthropologist, but invisible to an untrained observer. Perhaps this is a similar case? In any event, I'm sure the heart will be attributed to the proper species soon.
None of which explains, however, why the heart was left in a car wash...
How in the heck could you confuse human hands with a bear paw? Was it just the bones?
Yeah, it was just the bones. I guess it's not that uncommon?
so the doctor doesn't know if the heart is a human heart or an animal? and also what happened to the heart after it was found?
They ended up finding out thst it was a deer heart. I think also that it was pretty stupid that a doctor didn't know this.
What do a heart and dick cheney have to do with each other?
wow,weird!
Duh dont u think it from a murder it only takes a couple seconds to pull the trigger and "pull the heart out"
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