Medtronic Inc.'s misplaced shipment of human heads, inadvertently seized by authorities last year, will be cremated after the company decided it didn’t need them anymore.
The Associated Press reports that an Arkansas coroner said that he’ll dispose of the three tote boxes full of heads, several dozen in all, that were once bound for a Medtronic research facility.
They never made it. The shipment was mislabeled and an airline worker called police after noticing the heads last summer. Law enforcement officials in Arkansas said they held this shipment because it was poorly labeled and because they weren’t sure if it was part of some sort of black-market operation.
