{"id":245795,"date":"2012-01-08T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenesis.com\/autopsies-and-caviar-dreams\/"},"modified":"2012-01-08T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T16:41:13","slug":"autopsies-and-caviar-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/pathology\/autopsies-and-caviar-dreams.php","title":{"rendered":"Autopsies and Caviar Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Caviar\"<\/a>A colleague sent this to me over the holidays. <\/em><\/p>

From the world of strange news items comes this tale of an entrepenurial funeral service owner and a morgue attendant in St. Petersburg, Russia.<\/em><\/p>

Not a big fan of performing autopsies but perhaps if there was some Russian red caviar to be had as part of the work I might reconsider.<\/em><\/p>

Just like a Thanksgiving dinner does not count if there is no turkey, a Russian New Year's party is not complete without caviar on the table. Even if it is a morgue party, police discovered.<\/p>

More than 175 kilograms of red and black caviar were stored in a morgue of a St. Petersburg hospital, local police said<\/a> on their web site Wednesday.<\/p>

The caviar, which comes from endangered species, belonged to a 64-year-old entrepreneur who ran a funeral service in the building and a 42-year-old morgue attendant, the report said, without releasing their names.<\/p>

The duo \"stored and packed red and black caviar next to the corpses inside the morgue's pathology department,\" police said.<\/p>

About 135 kilograms of red caviar were packed in five containers labeled \"Aviation Security. Checked.\" Identical containers were found in a body storage room, with a paramedic saying they held \"biological waste.\"<\/p>

A police video leaked by the Lifenews.ru online tabloid showed<\/a> a refrigerator stuffed with caviar next to a body in a coffin. A spoken commentary described the premises as a \"farewell hall\" where mourners pay tribute to the dead.<\/p>

The two men said the caviar was \"meant for their private use to celebrate the new year and a party for the hospital personnel,\" police said.<\/p>

No one was charged with wrongdoing as of Wednesday because owing caviar is not a violation per se. But police have begun a check into where the caviar came from and whether its storage broke sanitary laws.<\/p>

Most black caviar in Russia comes from the black market. Only 19 tons of the 244 tons sold last year were sold legally, Vedomosti reported<\/a> in April.<\/p>

It remained unclear whether morgue officials would face any penalties. Police said in their report that a hospital administrator failed to explain how the delicacy came to be stored next to the corpses and fled the building.<\/p>

Read more:http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/news\/article\/police-bust-caviar-stash-in-st-pete-morgue\/450652.html#ixzz1iL6HpwUK<\/a><\/p>

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