Shipment Of Human Heads Stopped At Airport.

A shipment of 18 human heads stopped by customs officials at O'Hare International Airport was sent here from Rome to be cremated after being used in medical research.
Customs held up the shipment in late December because accompanying paperwork was incomplete, according to a spokeswoman for the Cook County medical examiner's office. Other officials said it was not clear where the shipment was to be delivered.

The heads had been embalmed and were packaged in three blue coolers shipped from Rome on a Lufthansa Airlines flight about a week before Christmas.
The items were tagged as human specimens, officials said. The containers holding the specimens arrived as a regular cargo shipment.
“The embalmed heads are anatomical specimens used for research and were properly preserved, wrapped and labelled when they arrived at the airport from a medical research facility in Rome. “The heads were detected when the containers were routinely X-rayed as they passed through U.S. Customs.”
Customs officials at O'Hare held up the shipment because the final destination was not clearly indicated on the accompanying paperwork, Brucci said.
The coolers were X-rayed and customs officials saw 18 human heads inside. They were delivered to the medical examiner's office Monday so they could be properly stored while officials investigated the shipment. One of the coolers was opened for a preliminary inspection
Photographs and X-rays will be taken of the specimens before they are released. Human Heads Keh, this sounds so wrong, call me naive.......
Culled from the star.