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posted by janrinok on Thursday September 29 2016, @09:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the "I-ain't-got-nobody" dept.

The New York Times reports that a Moroccan woman who took a piece of her dead husband's intestine on a flight to their home in Austria was carrying the sample because she suspected that he had been poisoned and she wanted European doctors to examine it.

The woman packed the four-inch piece in her checked baggage on a flight to the southern Austrian city of Graz, where she and her husband had been living for eight years. She acted on the advice of a doctor in Marrakesh who shared her suspicion that her husband had been poisoned at a meal the couple ate while visiting his relatives. The woman was travelling through Graz airport in the south of Austria but was reportedly stopped by officials after they observed her behaving suspiciously.

Officers determined that the woman had violated no Austrian laws by bringing the sample into the country. A Moroccan doctor extracted the piece of intestine and apparently helped pack it in formaldehyde and in thick plastic containers. Gerald Höfler, who leads the pathology institute in Graz where the intestine is being examined, described the packaging as very professional. "I would imagine that it was done by a pathologist," Höfler said. "It was absolutely secure, triple wrapped, according to European Union norms."


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  • (Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Thursday September 29 2016, @09:10PM

    by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 29 2016, @09:10PM (#408120)

    RIP husband. I hope he was not poisoned or killed in another way.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by pkrasimirov on Thursday September 29 2016, @09:14PM

    by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 29 2016, @09:14PM (#408122)

    Prosecutor: How did your first husband die?
    Wife: Poisoning.
    Prosecutor: Why?
    Wife: He ate mushrooms.
    Prosecutor: How did your second husband die?
    Wife: Poisoning.
    Prosecutor: Why?
    Wife: He ate mushrooms.
    Prosecutor: How did your third husband die?
    Wife: Head trauma.
    Prosecutor: Why?
    Wife: He didn't want to eat mushrooms.