[hergus]

"UC Davis is a medical research facility amongst other medical stuff.. I think someone was careless in disposing of these remains..."

I agree RB, I heard they're were limb's from 3 women and one man. Some mummified, some with soft tissue.

I know this sounds distateful, but amputations are quite regularly on the OR schedules at all hospitals, esp. teaching hospitals.

The limbs are handed off to the circulating nurse and then on to be cremated usually. Maybe these were some that got "lost" and the person guilty of that offense decided to try and dispose of them, instead of fessing up and getting into trouble.

Just an idea I had from working as a circulating nurse....

[Rusty Roberts]

I'm surprised about this, as when my father had to have his leg amputated, we were given his leg (big surprise to us) and told to treat it as "remains". We could donate it, cremate it or bury it if we had a plot already, but it was our responsibility. It was the law , so I'm surprised this wasn' more closely supervised. Hate to think of someone donating a limb and having this happen.