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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.
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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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Someone probably just put out a pair of calfs lungs just to see where it would go. I bet if they find out who, they'll be in trouble. I think it's a good one.
Man. that L.A. smog is really brutal.
Most likely belong to New Jersey Devils' goalie.
Hilarious comments. Great way to start the day.
crazy.
Talk about being out of breath.
Hope the lung's is not belongs to any human or else their is a monster in the city who got the job to chopped the human body.
She took his breath away!
Frank Drebin, The Naked Gun: "Nothing to see here! Move along! Nothing to see here!"
Werewolves of London again...
Either that or the cherished illegals that Mexifornia welcomed north of the border have brought their drug cartel methods with them. I vote for the latter.
I'm breathless!
Maybe the pollution in LA has gotten so bad that someone finally coughed up a lung.... or 2
It's no mystery! Just another smoker in Los Angeles; hacking up a lung!!
"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.""
I couldn't help laugh at that comment.
On a more serious note, I hope the lungs aren't human. That would mean that someone was killed. I've read enough about that kind of stuff lately.
Not necessarily. Someone could have died of lung cancer or something and left their body to medical research and a couple of med students stole a lab specimen, put it on the sidewalk just to watch people 'freak out' over the 'Zombie Apocalypse' and are reading these comments now and laughing their a$$es off.
So THAT'S where I left those!
Mike, This is off the subject, but, ah..........is that your pic dude?
I have been out of breath all morning. I wondered why.
Hey Wait a Minute! Isn't Ed Winter that albino rocker who recorded "Frankenstein" in the 1970's? hmmmmm............ ;-)
Someone must have screamed his lungs off last night for the KINGS.
Movie prop hoax.
oh for gosh sakes dont you city guys know not all parts of road kill land in the same place
coughing up a lung because of the smog? Maybe!
This will undoubtedly be a "Bones" episode soon!
Check with LAPD. Has anyone filed a missing lung report? Problem solved.
Black market organ selling is not a laughing matter, and it is not anything new. 10 years ago I read about people waking up in a bathtub filled with ice in Las Vegas realizing they were in pain and had been cut open and their kidney was missing.
It might be a gang fear tactic to mark their territory and warn the enemy. That is even more disturbing.
Society is so sick!
JHC.....what next!!!!