As the League Championships and the World Series are on the horizon (it is October, after all) how about a little baseball news.
I read this in Sunday's paper and I'm still recovering.
"A new book by a former employee of Alcor, the company that froze Ted Williams' remains, alleges the Baseball Hall of Famer's body was mistreated by the company.
Larry Johnson says in the book "Frozen: My Journey Into the World of Cryonics, Deception and Death" that he watched an Alcor official swing a monkey wrench at Williams' frozen severed head to try to remove a tuna can stuck to it. The first swing accidentally struck the head, Johnson contends, and the second knocked the tuna can loose."
I love tuna, but I'm not sure I can ever eat it again. This kinda puts me off the Red Sox, too.
4 comments:
Thank Gawd!! I read this story and waited...no one wants to be overly quick with severed head stories... : )
I'm even more appalled that the employee who did the actual decapitations for this company isn't a Doctor. Although I shouldn't be surprised.
Please tell me someone besides me read the book Stiff? It's about what happens when you donate your body to science. It is surprising funny considering the subject matter.
I haven't heard of it, but it sounds like my kind of read.
And have you ever known me to pass up on a good severed head tale?
OMG - a severed head story - we haven't had one of these for ages! Well, since the olden days on a previous blog......but this is pretty bizarre - any explanation of how the can of tuna got there in the first place? Do I really want an answer to that question?
If I recall correctly, the tuna can is used to balance the head like a pedestal. (A hedestal, perhaps?) And, maybe I dreamt this part, but I think there's a cat involved in the story too.
The whole thing is macabre.
But, hey, it's a severed head story. Everybody wins!
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