The police prosecutor Sen Const Melissa Sambrooks said Kinman was not present when the dogs regurgitated the remains, but searched a wheelie bin looking for the toes.
“She located two human toes and took them home and placed them in a jar containing formaldehyde,” Sambrooks said.
Police found Kinman was a member of the “Bone Buddies Australia” Facebook group, commonly used to buy, swap and sell specimens online.
Sambrooks said Kinman was an avid contributor to the site and had previously sold “wet specimens” of a stillborn kitten and puppy. It was not revealed where those remains were sourced.
That headline is some brand new sentence material.
"It’s astounding that she didn’t understand [that] taking two toes that had been vomited up by one or two dogs from a deceased person and sell[ing] them on the internet was the wrong thing to do. I’m still struggling to understand – it’s astonishing, her behaviour.”
Aaaaaannnnd that’s enough internet for me tonight! Goodnight everybody!
wut?
Basically she took evidence and used it to create an ‘oddity’ to sell it as such. It’s a fairly thriving industry (oddities).
I have sold bones that I found while hiking. One was a beautiful complete kangaroo skull. Sold it for $50.
Why is such a group allowed on Facebook?
Taxidermy is far from illegal. It’s not “Human Bone Buddies Australia”, it’s just “Bone Buddies Australia” and I’d expect anything from horse hooves to kangaroo skulls and ballsacks and whatnot. I forgot what the regulations are for human parts though, I think they have changed over the past decade or so but I’ve studied in at least two places that had real human remains as well as a vast collection of animal remains.
What she did was very, very stupid though.
How else are you supposed to make a sourtoe cocktail at home?
Excuse me?!
ok
