Brain found in bag

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that a plastic bag containing what is believed to be a brain — human? animal? — was found today near Stony Point Fashion Park. No doubt this bizarre story will be at the top of the local news at 6 p.m.

Click here to read the article.

Update: The State Medical Examiner’s Office has declared the brain tissue in the bag came from an animal. Of course, why someone lost track of their bag o’ deer brains, or dog brains, or pig brains, or you name it, remains a mystery.

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4 Comments.

Has anyone seen Mayor Wilder today? I heard he lost his mind.

Stephen Retherford @ October 9th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
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Mohr or Less » Blog Archive » Notes and Inklings for 2007-10-09 @ October 10th, 2007 at 6:12 am
If the bag contained a dog brain, or for that matter the brain of any animal, does that really strike you as a joking matter? How do you suppose the brain got from the animal’s body to the bag? If you contemplate that process, perhaps you won’t think it so amusing.

Susan Patton @ October 11th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Susan Patton,

Now that Tuesday’s attention-getting story is no longer about a human brain, many are obviously feeling a sense of relief. The point of my wisecrack was that we probably should still bother find out how the animal tissue in that bag got where it was found. But I doubt there will be all that much of a follow-up investigation.

However, it seems to me that a brains-in-a-bag news story invites a measure of black humor in response. Still, it was certainly not my intension to inflame animal lovers. Sorry, if my comments rubbed you the wrong way.

FTRea @ October 11th, 2007 at 8:09 pm