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Posted: 2/12/2006 3:22:13 PM EDT

Don't lose your head.

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060211/ap_on_fe_st/skull_in_luggage&printer=1

Woman Carrying Human Head Arrested in Fla.

Fri Feb 10, 9:41 PM ET

Airport baggage screeners found a human head with teeth, hair and skin in the luggage of a woman who said she intended to ward off evil spirits with it, authorities said Friday.

Myrlene Severe, 30, a Haitian-born permanent U.S. resident, was charged Friday with smuggling a human head into the U.S. without proper documentation.

Customs and Border Protection officials found the head Thursday, after Severe arrived at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on a Lynx International Airlines flight from Cap Haitien, Haiti, said Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami.

"It still had teeth, hair and bits of skin and lots of dirt," Gonzalez said.

Severe told authorities she had obtained the package in Haiti for "use as a part of her voodoo beliefs," ICE Special Agent Erick Hernandez wrote in an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint.

"Severe also stated that the purpose of the package was to ward off evil spirits," Hernandez wrote.

Severe, who also was charged with failing to declare the head and transporting hazardous material in air commerce, faces a maximum of 15 years in prison if convicted of all charges, prosecutors said.

Severe remained held Friday in lieu of a $100,000 bond. She is due back in federal court March 2.

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:24:45 PM EDT

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So, if I don't call dupe, do I still have to go look for the link to the other thread?

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:30:47 PM EDT

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charged Friday with smuggling a human head into the U.S. without proper documentation

Out of curiosity, what would the proper documentation be?

And honestly, while it was quite abnormal and certainly sick, why is this against the law? As long as the person wasn't murdered or whatever, who cares?

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:38:36 PM EDT

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So, if I don't call dupe, do I still have to go look for the link to the other thread?

Kind of hard to search for this when the thread title for the first one is so damn descriptive.

hooray for multiculturalism

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:39:13 PM EDT

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Well, I just dont know what to say......

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:40:59 PM EDT

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So, if I don't call dupe, do I still have to go look for the link to the other thread?

Kind of hard to search for this when the thread title for the first one is so damn descriptive.

hooray for multiculturalism

Thats why I use the article title for the thread title

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:43:08 PM EDT

[#6]

Thats no way to get aHEAD in life!

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:44:00 PM EDT

[#7]

Dammit, how about you include news reports about the people in Phoenix and Tulsa and Detroit that were carrying around human heads too!

(sorry, inside joke there for team members)

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:45:40 PM EDT

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So, if I don't call dupe, do I still have to go look for the link to the other thread?

Kind of hard to search for this when the thread title for the first one is so damn descriptive.

hooray for multiculturalism

Thats why I use the article title for the thread title

That concept is very hard for some people to grasp.

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:49:28 PM EDT

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So, if I don't call dupe, do I still have to go look for the link to the other thread?

Kind of hard to search for this when the thread title for the first one is so damn descriptive.

hooray for multiculturalism

Thats why I use the article title for the thread title

That concept is very hard for some people to grasp.

Yeah, but I keep mentioning it anyway

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:53:11 PM EDT

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So, if I don't call dupe, do I still have to go look for the link to the other thread?

Kind of hard to search for this when the thread title for the first one is so damn descriptive.

hooray for multiculturalism

+1 dammit. Just found it. And you know, I scanned the forum to page 11 -- never thought that "hooray for multiculturalism" might be a dupe of it.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=436272

DUPE.

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:54:18 PM EDT

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IBTL. AGNTSA. ()#(*U$)WQ(*#UR(WJFOSDJFOPSJKDF.

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:54:57 PM EDT

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IBTL. AGNTSA. ()#(*U$)WQ(*#UR(WJFOSDJFOPSJKDF.

Post whore!

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:55:30 PM EDT

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IBTL. AGNTSA. ()#(*U$)WQ(*#UR(WJFOSDJFOPSJKDF.

Post whore!

+1

Posted: 2/12/2006 3:56:00 PM EDT

[#14]

After living in Miami for six years this does not surprise me.

Posted: 2/12/2006 4:11:30 PM EDT

[#15]

Voodoo got her in deep doo doo

Posted: 2/12/2006 4:14:07 PM EDT

[#16]

Oh that voodoo, that you do, so well...

Posted: 2/12/2006 4:19:48 PM EDT

[#17]

I will bet she doesn't do more than the time she spends in jail before the hearing. Her defender will get the charges dropped on the basis that she is attempting to practice her religion and by stopping her we are violating her civil rights.

Why should we care if she brings a head into the US? Several nasty nervous tissue infections that I can think of, communicable after death (think BSE or Mad Cow Disease) and the fact that we don't want every flight from Haiti to smell like a bad day at the mortuary. The fact that there is paperwork for this tells me that it is done, at least occasionally and maybe she is bringing back an old boyfriend?

Posted: 2/12/2006 4:25:58 PM EDT

[#18]

Severe - what a great name for somebody with a severed head!

Posted: 2/12/2006 5:08:28 PM EDT

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I think this would be related to cadavers being brought in as teaching tools for medical purposes. India is supposed to be the place to get you a top rate cadaver, skull, skeletal system, ect...

Posted: 2/12/2006 5:08:56 PM EDT

[#20]

Just "The Man" keeping a sistah from gettin' a head in life.

Posted: 2/12/2006 5:10:41 PM EDT

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Well, I just dont know what to say......

And we get thousands of idiots just like her into this state every year.

Posted: 2/12/2006 5:16:10 PM EDT

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Well, I just dont know what to say......

And we get thousands of idiots just like her into this state every year.

I dont know what to say to that either.....

Posted: 2/12/2006 9:19:13 PM EDT

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Well, I just dont know what to say......

And we get thousands of idiots just like her into this state every year.

I dont know what to say to that either.....

Google her name and Miami Florida for her phone number.

Posted: 2/12/2006 9:25:05 PM EDT

[#24]

Dupe--http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=436272

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