Bits And Pieces

One of the extras of living near a teaching hospital is getting to be the involuntary audience for body part pranks played by medical students. Skulls wind up at bus stops, and limbs end up in the employee refrigerators next to the cheese sandwiches.
I once found half a leg while getting a soda. The only eyebrows it raised were mine; everyone else was used to it:

A doctor has pleaded not guilty to stealing a hand from a New Jersey medical school cadaver and giving it to an exotic dancer, authorities said.
Ahmed Rashed, a 2005 graduate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, was charged Monday after voluntarily returning from Los Angeles, California, where he is in a residency program, said his lawyer, Hassen Abdellah.

Rashed, 26, is free on $1,000 bail.

The dancer, Linda Kay, kept the hand in a jar of formaldehyde in her bedroom. Friends have said she called the hand "Freddy."
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The charge against Rashed carries up to 10 years in prison.

I'm surprised they're giving him such a hard time about it. Van Gogh and his prostitute, this guy and his stripper...it's all about making that grand gesture.