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thentavius · 10-12-2006, 05:49 PM,

Full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061012/ap_o...y_for_sale

Quote:Officials are trying to track down the origins of a mummified human skeleton that a Michigan woman tried to sell on eBay.

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The St. Clair County medical examiner's office confiscated the mummified remains Tuesday from the home of Lynn Sterling.

Sterling, 45, told police she got the remains from a friend who works in demolition and said he found them in a Detroit school he helped tear down nearly 30 years ago, police said. She said she had contacted an attorney before posting the remains for sale.

Quote:"There was a bid on it for $500 from `Satan's Child,'" Porrett said.

LOL.

***regic*** · 10-12-2006, 05:51 PM,

Quote:"There was a bid on it for $500 from `Satan's Child,'" Porrett said.

stardust · 10-12-2006, 08:14 PM,

Quote:he found them in a Detroit school he helped tear down nearly 30 years ago

Jen · 10-12-2006, 08:43 PM,

Give a whole new meaning to find IT on eBay.

stardust · 10-12-2006, 10:51 PM,

30 years ago. Hmmm. Maybe it's the missing teamster leader that no one has ever been able to find. You know, what's-his-name.... jimmy hoffa....

thentavius · 10-13-2006, 04:53 PM,

LOL.

What I want to know is, did the dude find this body in the wall or the floor of the school? Or was it in some ancient grave underneath??

**Kristijntje** · 11-05-2006, 11:35 AM,

Update:

Quote:Mummified human skeletal remains confiscated from the home of a woman who police say was trying to sell them on eBay likely came from an early 19th century Scottish collection, authorities said.

Police said Friday they have closed their investigation and do not plan to seek criminal charges...

A Michigan State University anthropologist determined that remains likely date from the early 19th century and were part of a collection of anatomical specimens from Scottish anatomist Allen Burns, the Times Herald reported.

The collection was brought to the United States in 1820 and has been housed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The remains are from a child, probably between the ages of 6 and 9, Norman Sauer, an anthropology professor, told police in an e-mail...

full article: http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusine...45663.html

xppman · 11-05-2006, 03:32 PM,

Darn and I was bidding on that thing too.
Now where else can I get human remains other than feeBay? ;D

thentavius · 11-05-2006, 03:46 PM,

She thought it was OK to sell mummified remains of a CHILD?

What people will do...

xppman · 11-05-2006, 04:17 PM,

What's even scarier is. Who would want them? ;D