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greiner3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 04:03 PM
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What the heck would the freepers want with?
TV host Alistair Cooke's bones allegedly stolen
Thieves sold venerable broadcaster's body parts for $7,000, report says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10574333/

I remember him on PBS. I'm sure he was a liberal. Maybe the freepers are just 'ghoulish' after all.

:rofl:
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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 04:06 PM
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1. Freepers are so sick...
no telling what twisted and horrible things they do behind closed doors.
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Whopper Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 04:20 PM
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4. Freeper?
You think this guy is a freeper? Michael Mastromarino?
Are you trying to be funny or do you know something you'd like to share?
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 04:14 PM
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2. Part of their ritual sacrifice to Tomlinson
in hopes of keeping the RW influence alive on the CPB they sacrifice Alistair Cooke's bones on their altars of evil.

Mini biography of Alistair Cooke from http://imdb.com/name/nm0177362/bio

British-born American journalist and broadcaster. Cooke was born in Salford, Manchester: his father was an iron-fitter and Methodist lay-preacher. He grew up in Blackpool where his parents ran a guest house. Here he first came into contact with Americans, in the form of GIs on their way to fight in World War One. He won a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied English. A fellowship from the Commonwealth Fund subsequently enabled him to study theatre at Yale and Harvard for two years. In 1934 he got his first broadcasting job, as a film critic for the BBC, but soon returned to the States and in 1941 became a US citizen. For a time he worked as a freelance journalist for The Times, reporting from New York. Then in 1945 he joined The Guardian as its US correspondent, a position he held until 1972. His first job was to cover the creation of the United Nations. In March 1946 he began a radio programme for the BBC called "American Letter". This was a series of 15-minute broadcasts in which he tried to give an impression of life in America. Cooke was warned by the producer that this would last no longer than 26 weeks: in the event, as "Letter from America", it lasted for 58 years, becoming the world's longest-running speech radio programme. Cooke made in total 2869 broadcasts, mostly from his 15th-floor flat on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park. Memorable broadcasts included his eyewitness account of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. He also broadcast on American TV, presenting "Omnibus" in the 1950s and from 1971 to 1993 presenting British programmes to American viewers for PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre" series. A much-respected figure on both sides of the Atlantic, he was granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 1973, and addressed Congress as part of the bicentennial celebrations. At the age of 95, having been forced to miss a broadcast due to his increasing ill-health, Cooke decided to end "Letter from America" (having in the past made 16 broadcasts from a hospital bed). The last programme was transmitted on 2nd March 2004 and he died less than a month later.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 04:15 PM
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3. Why do we think it was freepers???
That's just very strange!
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 04:24 PM
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5. Harvesting bits and pieces like skin, bone and cartilage
is a very lucrative business, especially the skin. Most useful for burn victims, it's in short supply, thanks to lots of vanity surgeons upping the demand for things like genital enhancements and plastic surgery.

That they've been desecrating corpses bound for cremation is no surprise.

That they've gotten greedy enough to steal parts that are clearly unusable in transplant is especially horrifying.

I shudder to think where those cancerous bones ended up. I sincerely hope no one's spinal fusion is relying on them.

I don't think we can assign any particular politics to these sociopaths. I do think we need to make sure they're locked up for a very, very long time.
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 04:38 PM
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6. Maybe it was Skull & Bones
doing a hazing stunt.
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