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Subscribe to RSSLOS ANGELES — Authorities are investigating what appear to be a pair of lungs found on a sidewalk in South Los Angeles.
A woman called to report finding what she believed to be the organs at 8:30 p.m. (11:30 p.m. ET) Sunday in the 13100 block of Avalon Boulevard.
Sheriff's deputies responded to the scene, and the coroner's office was also called.
Additional testing will determine if the remains are in fact lungs and whether they are human, police said.
Read the original story at NBC33TV.com
Sgt. Robert Dean of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, told the Los Angeles Times: "We don't know what they are. It's really weird."
Ed Winter, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner's office, told the newspaper the possible organs were not attached to a body, and he found the situation "a little strange." He said it was unclear when the examination would be performed.
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All the smog in LA, someone finally hacked up a lung. So what?
Honestly, this article has me a little breathless...
You may lost a pair of lungs.
"weird" "a little strange"
You know it's bad when these words are associated with something in LA LA Land.
Damn L.A. pollution, caused some liberal to cough up their lungs again! Either that, or they're getting taxed for breathing and decided to avoid the tax!
maybe they fell off andrew zimmers plate as he was headed to tape his t v show.
Just plain sick...WTF is going on in our country?
Surely that is not the strangest thing ever found on the sidewalk of L.A..?
I've heard of coughin up a lung, but both ofem.?
if they weighed 5 pounds, the man vrs. food guy could try to eat them and maybe get his picture on the wall of fame and a t-shirt.
Third world here we come.
Hell, it might even be a poorly made CSI Hollywood special effect that was discarded by a prop department.
I'm glad most of you find this amusing... Think about what it really means and you might not find it as funny.
Looks to me the Drug Cartel's are making more statements.. Of course not a soul in DC thinks we need that
Southern Border closed... Watch your children, they are taking everything they want.
Bodies are found all over the Southern Border, heads lying around and every other body part.
... nothing to go losing your head about, relax!
Wet Blanket alert.
"Bodies are found all over the Southern Border, heads lying around and every other body part."
Did the zombie apocalypse already start?
More sensationalistic crap from msn/msnbc no real news here, no real info
Sure we do, a suspected pair of lungs.
... said "worm meat".
Someone is going to find a pot of collard greens and the case will be solved. Umm,Umm!
Well now...isn't this story a "breath" of fresh air ;)
Lungs in California. A face in Miami. Before long, we'll have another citizen, albeit a zombie.
Are you happy now pro-lifers?
Guess the zombies didn't think the lungs were tasty. Maybe they belonged to a smoker?
Don't belive this is uncommon in Calif.
Ohh! this is California,it's likely menudo.What day was it? Mexicans make menudo on Sundays.
It wasn't Moe Howard who did that. Now if it was Larry's or Curly's esophagus found ripped out, we may have a suspect. Woo-woo-woo!
California starting to turn into Mexico with dead bodies and body parts laying around... probably mexican drug gangs
Stupid headline should read "possible" not "suspected"
It doesn't have the same ring to it as, "I left me heart in San Francisco". "I left my lungs, In East LA." Nah..
someone probably just coughed them up do to all of the smog