BS: This not a joke. Real problem

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 11:07 AM

Well it ain't no damn fruit cake, those things could live at the bottom of the ocean for 12 years and still be editable (of sorts I guess)

Now my concern is less about the package then the neighbor. I use to deliver papers when I was a kid. Noticed them stacking up at one of my deliveries. The old guy who lived alone passed away from a heart attack. I didn't think to tell anyone cause I was a kid and never thought about dying

you should call however the cops to check on him and the package

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 10:47 AM

"Or could it be a coup by British anti-Europeans, designed to raise a public outcry for reintroducing customs?"

Likely so. Perhaps this could be added to a Morris thread?

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 10:15 AM

Virginia, that looks like "Subcontinental", which excludes Turkey. I assume the "Asian gift wrap" refers to the same culture.

The "doctor" might be an expert of traditional Hindu medicine, which often included parts of animals of endangered species. His agents may have smuggled them overland to Germany, from where they could mail them without fearing customs.

Or could it be a coup by British anti-Europeans, designed to raise a public outcry for reintroducing customs?

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 08:32 AM

The obvious answer is to cook them first D. Then vacuum pack.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 08:12 AM

This has caused me to rethink sending puppies as gifts by courier.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 07:40 AM

A goat's head?
=(:-( o)

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,VaTam on her Tab
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 07:37 AM

Gentleman's name and look is mid-eastern. When women have visted they were in sari and haed covered with pashmina. So I do not think thanksgiving is an option. Diwali approaches so maybe some goodies from freind or family in Germany.

Police did not attend last evening.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 04:45 AM

I eagerly await the answer/next installment in the bizarrity

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 11:13 PM

Since it is near USA Thanksgiving, it could be turkey, or turkey meat?
Just a shot in the dark.

Since it has been determined that this package weighs less than a human head (with or without the neck?) then I would guess that it isn't a turkey. Those weight a lot, usually starting at around 12 pounds and up to the mid-20 pounds. A lot, compared to the human head (even with the neck) I would guess.

This ranks up there as one of the more bizarre threads started at Mudcat.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: EBarnacle
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 10:32 PM

The whole aroma thing is a bit Hokie.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 09:59 PM

EdT: "Nope, it was just there, in front of me nose."

Did it smell??????!!!!!!!!!???????? Tell us...what did it smell like???

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 09:45 PM

""Oh dear. Just read you last post, Ed. I hope you don't search that.""

Nope, it was just there, in front of me nose.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 08:26 PM

Oh dear. Just read you last post, Ed. I hope you don't search that.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 08:13 PM

Well, whatever and however, Ed, I find your accumen at finding and posting germain shit and non-shit laudable.

Or, I coulda just said thanks but I like to butter the bread when it tastes good. Gramma taught me that one.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 07:47 PM

That does not rule out the possibility that ""the guys packaging turkey meat often fart in the bag before it is sealed""
:)

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 07:43 PM

""does your mind work at warp speed and are u a sped reeder?""

Both are a bit accurate. :)

However, I consider myself to have decent abilities to choose the right keywords to quickly find what I seek. It helps to have an interest in bizaar information, that I find in my many internet searches and wonderings - I often bookmark these for future personal interest - and sometimes share them, when appriopriate (or, at times when not appropriate, if I am in a humourous mood.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 07:34 PM

Since it is near USA Thanksgiving, it could be turkey, or turkey meat?
Just a shot in the dark.

""Turkey has a larger than average proportion of methionine and cysteine than other meat - both are sulfur bearing amino-acids that can lead to bad odours. Under closed condition (such as in a closed package) both can lead to a smell much like a fart. If it's originally packed in CO2, it can even worsen the smell"".

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 07:19 PM

Ed... you continuously amaze me by the shit you dig up on the internut! Pun intended. Seriously, does your mind work at warp speed and are u a sped reeder?

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 06:58 PM

You could always send it to this guy? He seems to be asking for it?

If a package stinks it belongs to me

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 06:52 PM

Keep track of all of this, it may be good material for a segment of "Movie of the Week?"

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 06:36 PM

My guess is that the neighbour was murdered by an Asian Couch Surfer who took body parts back to Asia and sent them back to the neighbour's address.

If you think that's a sick joke, Google "Luka Rocco Magnotta".

The world is a dangerous place. It's all the people in it.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 06:22 PM

Out of shear desperation, I started to think about what a reasonable response to this situation would have been.

It came to me that when the package arrived, or almost anytime thereafter, it would have been perfectly reasonable to simple call the neighbor and say, "Hey,your package was delivered to me, What should I do with it?"

Of course, posting a note on an internet forum to the effect that a disturbing and mysterious package which smelled of rotting flesh and was large enough to contain a human, was delivered to you, and at the same time conveying that you had reason to believe the addressee might have met with an unfortunate end--well, that's a close second:-)

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 05:51 PM

gnu, ..still chuckling...that was clever..if I do say.

Tension fills the room...you could hear a pin drop...high strung anxious anticipation was so thick you could taste it...so heavy you couldn't walk through it without scraping yourself...all waiting ...for.......................................the source!!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 05:07 PM

Dear Confused,

I feel your pain.

Signed,
Equally confused

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: meself
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 04:05 PM

Wait - did she call the cops to deal with the package in the hallway or with the obscenity on the thread?

Sign me,
Confused

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 03:55 PM

John... but, if it's a shruken? The head, I mean.

VTam... I knew this thread would devolve into obscenity. I just didn't think it would be so late.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 03:34 PM

That's what happened to my housemate's daughter. Got to stinking so bad she called the cops. They told her to go in and check. So she did. Purply dead guy.
=(:-( O)

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 03:29 PM

IMO, the original scenariob was mis-titled, as it seems more like a dilemma, than a "real problem"? This was likely a reason why the discussion evolved towards a humourous note.

The way I see it, problems can be solved (call the police, or throw the nasty thing out). Dilemmas need more thoughtful management, as they involve a personal ethical issue - the nasty smelly package was entrusted to me to take care of and pass on to a neighbour, shall I betray this trust?

Oh well. By calling the police, it ended up being a problem that will likely be solved in one manner or another, most likely with few negative consequences.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,999
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 03:22 PM

"Well I just hope nothing has happened to the occupant of the flat imagine if he or she was in there dead and no one bothered to find out"

The neighbours, all of them, would be complaining about odour and by now, flies.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 02:57 PM

Then there's Clint Eastwood. Being dried and mummified didn't stop him from speaking at the Repub convention.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 02:49 PM

It happens. Especially to movie stars. Die and mummify in their apartments.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Megan L
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 02:36 PM

Well I just hope nothing has happened to the occupant of the flat imagine if he or she was in there dead and no one bothered to find out

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 02:32 PM

I think it's a tribute to our powers of recall.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 02:18 PM

I knew this thread would devolve into obscenity. I just didn't think it would be so soon.

Police called, maybe someone will come out.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 01:16 PM

Nothing wrong with wet head.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 01:14 PM

I have seen plenty of shrunken and dried things that ought to have smelled, if they were fresh, but didn't.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 12:59 PM

Jim Dixon: "Shrunken and dried, it wouldn't create such a bad smell."

Hmmm..ya' think poop still stinks if it was shrunken and dried?
How about opinions? Politics? Religious dogma? Stink-horn mushrooms?
...Your old knickers?

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 12:45 PM

Is the Dr, a zoological scientist ?

Elephant testicles ???

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 12:34 PM

That depends on the nature and quality of its owner's thinking.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 12:33 PM

If they got wet.......
=(:-( o)

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 12:29 PM

Shrunken and dried, it wouldn't create such a bad smell.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 12:07 PM

Shrunken and dried they don't weigh so much.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 11:30 AM

"VaTam on her Tab "No heavy enough to be a head, John. Not even as heavy as a basketball."

Maybe it is a head of one of our resident Mudcat airheads!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 11:26 AM

Ah. Well, that's a relief.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,VaTam on her Tab
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 11:21 AM

No heavy enough to be a head, John. Not even as heavy as a basketball.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 09:11 AM

If it's somebody's head, they'll let you know for sure ;)

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,VaTam on her Tab
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 09:01 AM

Local authority envrionmental health has bee emailed with the particulars. Directed to environmental health for my town. They took report over phone and recommended I call police if package still there whe we get home tonight.

I have no urge to know what the parcel contains. Sorry to disappoint but mudcat may never know.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 06:26 AM

Not wishing to alarm you VaTam, but 'foreign' organic stuff ag plants or food, especially when decomposed, can hatch all sorts of nasty bacilli and bacteria. Please ask the 'professionals' to come and remove it.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 02:11 AM

This actually seems like a bit of an emergency. Obviously, something is rapidly rotting or spoiling, which can mean maggots, flammable gasses, bacteria and such things. Better dealt with sooner than later.

Subject: RE: BS: This not a joke. Real problem
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 11 Nov 12 - 09:40 PM

Geezus! The Earth just shook here. Major tremor. What the hell could it have been?

Oh, wait. I think I know. Gnu just fell off the edge of his seat.

;-D Ook! Ook!

- Chongo