Smoked leg?
Note the name of mother and son. I’m not making this up.
MAIDEN, N.C. (AP) - A man who bought a smoker Tuesday at an auction of abandoned items might have thought twice had he looked inside first.
Maiden police said the man opened up the smoker and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it, he found a human leg, cut off 2 to 3 inches above the knee.
The smoker had been sold at an auction of items left behind at a storage facility, so investigators contacted the mother and son who had rented the space where the smoker was found.
The mother, Peg Steele, explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery “for religious reasons” she doesn’t know much about.
“The rest of the family was very much against it,” Steele said.
Steele said her son, John Wood, plans to drive to Maiden, about 35 miles northwest of Charlotte, to reclaim his amputated leg, police said.
I’ve smoked some bones in my day…
Yes, the Tar Heel state is representin’ today! Those names…can’t make ‘em up any better! AND I think I know what those religious “reasons” are!
DAMN! NO THIGH!!!
Mavis - what are the religious reasons? I’m baffled on this one.
He wants to make sure his DNA is intact for the Rapture…that’s why the born-agains just say “NO” to cremation! That’s the short answer…
It’s true, Donna…that’s why Pentecostals and other Charismatics (read: rural Southern Christians) don’t believe in cremation. According to their philosophy, when Jesus resurrects you, your body must be whole or the soul cannot be reunited with you.