10 Human Teeth Found In Walmart Wallet
According to the Cape Cod Times an unidentified shopper was browsing through the wallets at a Falmouth, MA Walmart, when he unzipped one of the compartments and found a surprise — ten human teeth. One of them even had a filling.
The man turned the teeth over to the store's management but left before police arrived. According to the paper, the teeth are from an adult and because they had no blood or gum tissue attached, they can't be tested for DNA.
"We're not aware of anything like this happening in the past, and we believe this to be an isolated incident," said Ashley Hardie, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman.
Police are hoping the shopper will come forward so they can speak with him.
Teeth found in wallet at Falmouth Wal-Mart [Cape Cod Times]
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Untrue. You don't need blood or gum tissue to extract DNA from teeth.
GROSS!!!
CREEPY. How do you just leave after that? Wouldn't curiosity demand that you stick around to figure out where they came from?
So that's where I left them!
This doesn't make any sense at all. I can not imagine a single plausible, common sense reason for why ANYONE would want to stash teeth in a wallet at Wal-Mart. Giving out cookies for the person that comes up with the most believeable story!
Somewhere in rural Massachusetts, an Alzheimer's patient gently weeps while trying to gum his jello...
I'm surprised that Walmart let him leave without checking his receipt and/or paying for the teeth.
There is probably some slave labourer in China who is missing their teeth no doubt for some minor infraction in the wallet production process.
@Radi0logy: But the person with the real story can't actually eat the cookies because he/she doesn't have any teeth :(
@Radi0logy:
1. Cow eats person.
2. Cow gets made into wallet.
3. Remains of person found in wallet.
Somewhere there's a purse with a free pair of glasses in the pocket.
@Radi0logy: A guy at the wallet factory (in some horrid third world place) sneezed causing ten of his teeth (probably the good ones too) to fal out. He put them in his wallet in hopes of getting them put back in. Since he works in a wallet factory in a horrid third world country, his wallet was actually his first paycheck and thus was brand new and devoid of any items other than the teeth.
He went on his lunch break (really just a juice break now) and accidently dropped his wallet on the production line right before the packing machine.
and the rest, well that's history.
Must be *some* way to blame the victim but I can't think of it right now.
No doubt someone will be right over to rectify that....
I thought it was possible to get DNA from teeth?
Either way this is creepy as hell. There's a couple reasons one might lose 10 teeth, and none of them are very pleasant.
If any of them are front teeth, please contact me. They were removed against my will by my Ex.
I wonder how much he'd get if he sent the fillings in to cash4gold.
@Drowner:
If you're the one that put them in there, you'd probably want to leave before the cops arrive.
Hmmm, I wonder where the rest of the teeth, the rest of the body for that matter, are.
They are left over from those skulls on the Totenkopf tee-shirts.
That's my theory.
What good would extracting the DNA from the teeth do them anyway? You need something to compare the DNA to to be able to determine a match, correct? I don't think we've quite reached the point where law abiding citizen's DNA is stored in a big database somewhere.
Store manager to staff at Team Meeting:
"...and another thing. No extra breaks for teeth falling out!"
@emona: It is if they grind them down. It's probably expensive and not worth it in this case, though.
@wgrune: It's possible the person with the missing teeth has a record, and frankly I wouldn't be surprised.
You CAN get DNA from teeth by grinding them down, but they probalby can't justify the cost.
@wgrune: You haven't been to Kansas then.
If you are arrested for a felony charge (not convicted, just arrested) your dna is taken.
After this year (or next, I dont recall) a misdemeanor arrest will get your dna taken.
Maybe Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia went shopping at Walmart.
(clip slightly NSFW)
wal*mart fight club stash?
I'm trying to think of how someone could have put the teeth there without violence being involved.
A mortician who went nuts?
Let me put on my strobe light and Massive Attack CD and I'll have those DNA results to you stat.
Based upon my local Wal Mart, I'd say they belong to one of the greeters.
@Radi0logy:
He lives in the UK and is one of the millions of Europeans practicing DIY Dentistry! Wallmart sells drills and pliers don't they?
Homedepot, the Place for DIY home improvement!
Wallmart, The Place for DIY dentistry!
By the time the government gets done printing up money to cover the bail-outs/hand-outs, we'll all probably be paying for goods and services with teeth.
That's kind of freaky, I mean... one or two teeth I'd understand, accidents happen but 10?
Someone somewhere got punished for not working fast enough...
@sir_eccles: That's why I deal with Cash4BowlingBalls.com. It's the best of both worlds. You use the bowling ball to get the teeth out to sent into Cash4Gold.com ;)
@wgrune: Well, you can also get family members if they have alleals in common, or at least that's what Saddel, the horse-toothed CSI taught me.
I am thinking the tooth fairy bought the wallet, didnt like it after she used it and returned it.