Dammit!! That's what I was gonna say. Now I'll need a new line. LOL, so much potential here.

scratching my head to come up with a heady comment.

I know, so many already taken. I needed a heads up to get here early and comment first.

I hope all the officials in Chicago get their heads together and solve this seemingly mysterious riddle!

Now nobody panic. We need to keep our heads here.

That's using the old noggin

Heads should roll for this.

They should have quit while they were a head.

That is most interesting head story I have heard lately..

What do you know.A a case of all brains and no brawn has our customs officials stopped dead in their tracks.

its the sequel to 8 heads in a duffel bag, staring joe pecsi !

Did the article say who was going to head up the investigation?

The real problem here is this.

They failed to pay the head tax to enter the country. If the body went with the head . Then they would have to apply for a visa. ( more money in the governments pocket ). Also full freight air fare.

Had they come from Pakistan, I would have been concerned.

Send them to John Boehner. There's more hope for gaining compromise from a box of heads than from the Tea Party Republicans in congress on the debt ceiling debate. They do say cooler heads prevail...

They do say cooler heads prevail...

Now, that's the best comment yet! LOLOL!!!

Somewhere in Italy there's a new 18-hole golf course.

I can't wrap my head around this one!!

Adds a whole different twist to "getting some head"

This one will get me collapsed...but I like it, if I do say so myself.

Is the Vatican beheading people now......

Check for Rosey Grier......Ray Milland might be at the lost and found.

Machine0208 beat me to it. I guess I was behind, not ahead.

And just how do you properly package a head for shipping? airbag or peanuts? Dry ice or cold packs?What do you do with the rest of the body? When doing a coin toss to see who gets to ship them, which side of the coin does the winner choose? Does UPS handle heads? I hope they gave them each a set of headphones so they weren't bored on the trip. Do they grade them like beef? Prime head, Grade A, etc? Did they know they were headed for New York? If they got lost though, it would be easy to get a heading. I heard one of them looked just like Heady Lamar, the old movie star that used to be in the Head & Shoulders commercials! This comment is obviously headed no where.

Well, I've always said, 18 heads are better than one.

(Sorry, I'm late to the thread, all the better jokes were taken.) LOL

18 human heads shipped from Rome held up at Chicago airport

Maybe it's for the film Hostel 3. 18 heads on a plane from the maker of Snakes on a Plane, Dummies on a Plane, and Airplane.

;)

Did they get the lettuce and cabbage shipment mixed up with the morgue shipment? Imagine if these had made it to the grocer?

All 18 heads are to be transplanted onto the bodies of Congressmen prior to the upcoming budget debates.

They are hoping to get better results if at least some of the members have a brain.

Notice I kept it politically neutral.....so the extremists on both sides can go at it.

"Heads on an Airplane".. ok, that could be a movie.

This is almost as good as the fart story last week!! Sorry I'm late.

Heads up work guys, this is indeed headline news.

How do I sign my head up to go back to Italy when I die? At least one part of me will get to go.

Dingle, head east.

This may have been said, but what a head case, or cases?

I have a head cold, said one head.

If they put all of their heads together, they maybe able to get to the bottom of this.

Man, somebody must a blew their head off.Now they got a band called Hot Heads...Did some people forget to use "Head and Shoulders"? How to cure a cold? Call the sniffing heads...

Hopefully the sequel is better than the original.

weren't they a rock group in the 1980s? I think they called themselves the talking heads?

Maybe they were all bald so they went to O'HARE.

@ Jennifer Michaels: your head is screwed on backwards if you think we believe your advertising crap.

they'll wind up in the airport gift shop...put springs on them...sell them for real bobble heads...that's just wrong...

HEADLINE: Immigration authorities bust human smuggling operation. Police are looking for 18 illegal aliens who may try to reunite themselves with their heads. Suspects are believed to be armed, legged and could be dangerous.

Mr. Blue, I guess somebody had to be first, looks like you nailed it. :-)

I guess the reason for this (loosely termed newsstory) is for the "head"line sensation. There actually little meat to this article, unless you're including the meatheads using it as a political platform for their unusal rants. I don't think some of these posters have lives...it surely doesn't appear so anyway, especially those who are exceptionally nasty to others who have different point of views. Wonder what ever happened to tolerance of others....must have died in America

So you think im funny what do i look like a clown, am i laughing! 18 heads in a duffel bag next sequel

Hats off to those head-hunters!! I see them head-ing up the chain for promotions.

At least we know "whats in the box"

Gives new meaning to the term giving head.

NYMeanMom, I don't know if that was directed at me or not. Google "Rosey Grier Ray Milland movie". The truth is weirder. Great scene of them on a motorcycle.

It's just Italian foreigners.

Head games, it's you and me baby
Head games, and I can't take it anymore
Head games, I don't wanna play the...
Head games

I wish i could get a head on a plane! lolol ;)

Sorry, we were missing a dirty joke. :P

TonyInDallas... Foreigner...and the heads were from Rome...way to stay on topic...

I'm having a hard time making heads or tails of this story.

Damn, all the head jokes have been used, oh well no head for me.

plain bob????? Rome, Italy??

I think you lost your head there.

They put their heads together to come up with a solution and their crowning achievement will be just to save face.

You all should be ashamed. Those poor heads belonged to someone once. They were someone's mother, father, sister, brother, cousin, headmaster, husband, uncle, wife, auntie, grandpa, nana, son, daughter, headmistress, neighbor, coach, teacher, headline, headless horseman, etc.

Show some respect for the head!

Thanks for the heads up Theo

In related news the republicans were dismayed after learning that the head of the state department was not among those detained.

These are heads of Sicilian mafia bosses brought over for researchers to compare them with that of Chicago mafioso's in order to ascertain if a diet of Spaghetti all'Amatriciana and Penne Arrabbiata has anything to do with their relative degree of nastiness. The findings will be given to the FBI and the FDA to determine if recommendations be made to the Justice Department that these dishes be declared illegal or that they be consumed only in moderation.

The beginning of the article says they arraived before Christmas. Later it says they were "found" at the Airport on Monday (but don't worry, the skin was still on). HEADS UP..... something smells??? I wonder who had to open the box.

Trying too hard to get a head in life when you have a deadline sometimes causes one to be detached from what is really important. One must separate oneself from their body of work every now and then or become just another faceless empty suit.

I must stop reading this!

TonyInDallas

Did they get the lettuce and cabbage shipment mixed up with the morgue shipment? Imagine if these had made it to the grocer?

Yes, I would like one head of Romemain Lettuce. /lol

;)

OK. I read that 18 heads were held up at O'Hare - did anyone else wonder whether an assault rifle was used in the hold-up?

Heading out now . . .

Yes, I would like one head of Romemain Lettuce. /lol

Make mine a Sicilian salad, with head cheese!

TonyInDallas

Yes, I would like one head of Romemain Lettuce. /lol

Make mine a Sicilian salad, with head cheese!

^^^^^

ROTFLM(head)O

I guess the other bag is tails.

cheetah-822547

I guess the other bag is tails.

hmmm, Not sure what is better... Some good head or some good tail.

/lol

This has all gotten to be too much for me. I guess I'm going to have to head out.

For some reason this reminds me of the song I have been using to wake up to this week;

If you care to listen, HERE.

Well, I didn't know they could ship heads on an airplane as cargo. I guess this proves that there's more than one way to get a head.

I don't know I just can't seem to wrap my head around this one.

just the vatican sending rahm a message about the murder rate in chicago.

Probably being held up on suspicion of possession of an unlicensed firearm. No, that makes no sense; they have no arms to fire with.

The Talking Heads reunion tour makes it's first stop in Chicago.

Maybe heads will roll over this.

love it !

Where were those delayed heads headed when they were held up?

Nags Head?

Hiltonhead N.C.?

Wait till the Head of the Vatican hears about this!

Who's the head honcho?

Before we go to far, let's do a quick head count.

Have the head of the class do it.

I know, right? Are they implying that Italian heads make better lab subjects?

Depends on what they were for, if they had some rare genetic disease/mutation/aberration that made them valuable for scientific research, there might not be anyone here in the US exhibiting the same abnormality who was willing to donate their bodies to scientific research.

Would you donate your body to science after you die instead of cremation or burial? I plan on it.

Now for me the real question (and one that I think people are missing) is that they aren't allowing the Chicago research facility to have these specimens because the research facility is being investigated for something unrelated to the specimens named in the article.

So...what IS the facility being investigated for? What could they be suspected guilty of doing that would result in holding up the specimens they've already paid for?

So...what IS the facility being investigated for?

Maybe earworms. Foot in mouth disease. Booger brains. Tin ears. Pink eyes. Roving eyes. Brain freeze. Trouty mouth. Loose lips.

Nothing like some Italian head!

The company is being investigated for losing their heads over this matter.

AMANDA: I don't think serious critique of the article has been reached yet. You got ahead of yourself.

I liked the headline about how the heads had been STOPPED. As if they were trying to ran the gates. . . .

Did they make them go through facial recognition software for security? Maybe the reaal reason they were stopped was because they all had turbans on their heads.

I just have to say, LMAO!!!

Maybe they left their bodies behind to get around TSA pat-downs?

Those Italians give some good head, don't they?

Mail Order Head?

Head'em up, move'em out. Rollin' rollin' rollin' get them bald ones goin' . . . .

They are cracking me up. LMAO

Head is cheaper in Italy

I saw that, and thought that they were the first to jump on the "head" jokes.

These are heads of Sicilian mafia bosses brought over for researchers to compare them with that of Chicago mafioso's in order to ascertain if a diet of Spaghetti all'Amatriciana and Penne Arrabbiata has anything to do with their relative degree of nastiness. The findings will be given to the FBI and the FDA to determine if recommendations be made to the Justice Department that these dishes be declared illegal or that they may be consumed only in moderation.

OMG, I dont know if there was others stories like this before , for me its the first !!

I m curious to know who where those heads donated, and how many females & males and their ages!!

and why from Italy!! they don't have enough heads in the USA!!!! hahhah

I have never dissected any human parts but I did get to sit in on an autopsy and that was very fascinating.

I know that song!

ooh....old enough to remember "Argent"....eh?... We'll have to put you at the head of the class..

I once dated a HEAD Nurse..She was the one with the dirty knees

You're not any older than me. I knew who you meant, and I'm not old.