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You stay classy, Alcor...

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:29 am
by Shoalzie
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091003/ap_ ... liams_book
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.
Johnson says he worked for Alcor for eight months in 2003, first as clinical director then as chief operating officer. He included several photographs in the book, including one of an upside-down severed head, not Williams', that had what appeared to be a tuna can attached to it.

Johnson says Alcor used the cans, from a cat that lived on the premises, as pedestals for the heads.

Williams' head was being transferred from one container to another when the monkey wrench incident took place, Johnson said in the book. When the head was removed from the first container, Johnson described it.
"Then he grabbed a monkey wrench, heaved a mighty swing, missing the tuna can completely but hitting the head dead center," Johnson wrote. "Tiny pieces of frozen head sprayed around the room."

The next swing, Johnson wrote, knocked the can loose.

Johnson also contends that there was a significant crack in Williams' head. He also repeated an allegation he had made earlier that samples of Williams' DNA are missing from the facility.

Insert your Walt Disney/Jessica Simpson/Foo Fighters resets [here]

Re: You stay classy, Alcor...

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:40 pm
by Trampis
How does this place receive enough funding to stay open? And when it closes...what then? "Dear so n so of dead beheaded relative, please come and get your belongings...and bring an icechest. P.S., would you like a cat?"

Re: You stay classy, Alcor...

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:26 pm
by Shlomart Ben Yisrael
I really thought this thread was going to be about Al Gore.

:oops:

Re: You stay classy, Alcor...

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:57 pm
by Smackie Chan
Screw_Michigan wrote:I don't get the Foo Fighters reference.
There goes my hero?

Re: You stay classy, Alcor...

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:55 pm
by Smackie Chan
Screw_Michigan wrote:Upon sobriety, I was going to say "Monkey Wrench," but that would would apply as well.
I'm sure your choice was the intended one.

Re: You stay classy, Alcor...

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:28 pm
by Shoalzie
Screw_Michigan wrote:Upon sobriety, I was going to say "Monkey Wrench," but that would would apply as well.

Bingo