Now here's a brilliant idea: a woman decided that she wanted to bring something special for halloween, so she packed a human skull in her checked luggage! Guess what happened next:
Tucson International Airport security were greeted with quite the surprise Wednesday morning when they discovered a human skull in a piece of checked luggage. [...]
The female passenger who owned the luggage had already boarded her flight, but was pulled off by security personnel for questioning.
According to TSA, the woman says the skull was brought back by her boyfriend after his military deployment in Okinawa, Japan. The woman says she was taking the skull to Philadelphia for halloween.
http://www.kvoa.com/global/story.asp?s=9147311
Strange thing though was that I wasn't pulled aside and searched, but my ex-husband ahead of me in line was for his camera bag. Strange system.
1: where did you legally obtain a human skull?
2: what will you do with it?
I saw an article on a bloke who acquired a human skull and turned it into a bong. Sorry, maybe I am a sook, but I think that that is just wrong.
When i studied 10 years ago, there was a girl living across the hallway who studyed to become a physiotherapist. She had a human hand/ underarm lying on her desk. ;-)
As far as TSA doing their jobs I'm surprised they even checked out the thing. Most would have figured it was a Halloween prop and ignored it.
http://www.skullsunlimited.com/humanskullsnb.htm
It's actually a pretty neat website.
http://staffwww.fullcoll.edu/jmcdermott/Chimp%20skull.jpg
I'm pretty sure humans don't have sagittal crest or a face that sticks out.
No. Not really. Go back and reread.
I collect anthropological specimens, and also use them as props for photography.