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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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Werewolfs of London, again!
Perhaps a carnivorous zombie concerned with the risk of 2nd hand smoke? Maybe he just "ate around" the smike-infested lungs? It is California, after all!
(GETTING COAT...lol)
Is this what they mean when someone says they "barfed up a lung"? Jeeeeez
Could it possibly be connected to that young man in Canada who cut up his lovers body and mailed pieces to government officials? But police think that there may be a california link as well? Just a thought
"Better stay away from him, He'll rip your lungs out, Jim"... guess he didn't listen to Warren Zevon after all.
THIS JUST IN:
The CDC has announced that there really are no such things as werewolves, and no virus exists which can cause lungs to travel on LA sidewalks . . .
mpa, Phew! I feel better now.......two less things to worry about. lol
XPW$ -
Always glad to help!
Black Dahlia?
if theres a bullet hole in them there from chicago
"Suspected pair of lungs"............What are they suspected of???????
Doesn't say what the lungs are suspected of.
I have deduced they are suspected of being good-for-nothing, unsettled, outcast, spongers.......
no apparent means of support?
Appears they are also living on the street.
Sherrifs dept says.. we dont know what it is. Well hello? take it to the hospital im sure some genius can figure out if its a set of lungs. What dumb things they say in these articles LMAO, laugh of the day.
Can't they just show a phone number on the 10:00 news to call if anyone discovers they are missing a pair of lungs?
Must have been some cough. This is just natures way of telling someone to stay off the pot for a while.
This is California. There is a better than even change these lungs are here illegally.
LA used to have all of the weird stuff that never happened anywhere else...ever since the internet came out they have kind of lost the spotlight for weird stuff...I think this uts them back in the #1 position....
I think they should start going door to door looking for a person with no lungs.... that will help
I always thought, "barfing up a lung" was a saying. I didn't know that it actually happened.
Evidently "coughing up a lung" isn't just a figure of speech..
Call your congressman! We need a law to ..............
Definitely time for the folks in LALALAND to take a breather!
Were the suspects arrested??
Cardiac arrested........Ba Dum.
Well I must say that this article is a breath of fresh air from what I normally read
Gives a new twist to the old"I'm going to jump down your throat and stomp out your liver"threat.
man ...what a slow news day....no politicians to rip.......no weirdo hollywood junk..
...gays aren't even bitchin' about something
OMG! maybe the world IS ending..
Ameican =
Relax, dude/dudette. Iti is early yet.
dude. yea, I know
Californians are Dumber than a sack of used Door-Knobs.
In a whacked out city like L.A. anything is possible.
I'll certainly breathe easier when they figure this out.