Years ago when leaving student accommodation in June, I froze the head from a shop dummy in ice and left it in the freezer.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@fesshole Box of human heads stolen from a truck in Denver: https://kdvr.com/news/local/box-of-human-heads-stolen-from-a-truck-in-denver/

Bet the thief got a very unpleasant surprise!

[scottgal@hachyderm.io]

@cstross @fesshole sounds like an event in a Laundry tale

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@scottgal @fesshole It's happened more than once! (I couldn't find it but I remember a news report from 15-25 years ago in the UK of a professor of plastic surgery whose car was broken into and the thief stole a cooler box of human heads he was taking to his next tutorial for his students …)

[neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org]

@cstross @fesshole

[log@mastodon.sdf.org]

@cstross @fesshole Did they do the musical number from "Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag"?

[rdp@notpickard.com]

@cstross @fesshole this was a kick ass subplot in the tv show Fringe that had one of my favorite character actors Sebastian Roché

[mansr@society.oftrolls.com]

@fesshole @cstross Not as bad as the thieves who stole a truck carrying cobalt-60.

reuters.com

(www.reuters.com)

[dshan@mastodon.au]

@cstross If the owners offer a reward they might get them back.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@fesshole I wish I'd thought of that.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@scottgal @fesshole @cstross University of Pittsburgh in the mid-80's - a professor's car was broken into. Thief stole six human brains, fixed in formalin for dissection at the medical college.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@cstross @fesshole @joat

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@fesshole @cstross @mansr Oops.

[sbszine@dice.camp]

@fesshole @cstross My mate had his case stolen, but the case just contained oversized glossy photos of his own hairy arse. (Proofs from a photoshoot for the cover of his band's punk rock album.) I still get a kick out of imagining the thief's face.

[weregopher@mstdn.social]

@cstross @fesshole Thats on a par with the guy in the early 70s who stole a car without noticing the alligator in a custom seatbelt harness on the back seat. When the car was returned the owner commented to the police that it was lucky he didn't open the boot because that had a cricket bag containing an iguana and a box of tarantulas.

[undead@masto.hackers.town]

@cstross

Proving crime does allow you to get a head in life.

@fesshole