[muir_redwoods]

Why would there be a need to put a person’s name on such a specimen?

[library user]

Somewhere Ted Williams is jealous.

[CWCoop]

Holy cripes!

[the invisib1e hand]

This is your brain on dislpay at the morgue.

[FourPeas]

some of the teen's classmates at Port Richmond High School visited a morgue on a field trip

I understand that this was a forensics club, but a morgue? When I was a teen, my ambitions were to be a pathologist, no one ever suggested a field trip to the morgue. It just seems....bizarre.

[driftdiver]

The math isn’t adding up. He was 17 when he died in 2005. Thats 5 years ago.

They are now 22 and on a high school field trip?

[Erasmus]

I'd sure give'm a piece of my mind!

But I'm afraid I don't have any to spare.

[right way right]

“After the incident, the city returned the brain and the family disinterred their son from a cemetery and then reburied him with the missing organ”

Why?

[Howudoing]

A field trip to the morgue? Did the stop for a picnic lunch at the cemetery?

[Guyin4Os]

Perhaps it was a rent-a-brain

[Pontiac]

Jesse Shipley was 17 when he died in a car crash in 2005.

"I wait months until I have six brains, and then it's kind of worth ... the trip to Staten Island to examine six brains," he said. "It doesn't make sense for him to come and do one."

Ok, so it has been 5 years. Why do you still have this brain?

You surely have issued the autopsy report for this boy by now.

Why have you not disposed of the brain?

[Gay State Conservative]

Unless New York State law specifically prohibits it I don't have a huge problem with the city having kept the brain.Allowing members of the general public to view a brain whose owner is identified by name is another matter.this certainly looks to me like another slimey lawyer trying to make an easy buck from what looks like nothing more than an unfortunate error by some government clerk.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks markomalley.