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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Crime Police Divers Recover Bottled Fetus From Lake Washington

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:07 AM

Last week, officers from the Seattle Police Department's Harbor Patrol were called to the Mount Baker neighborhood after two divers found a mysterious jar in Lake Washington.

According to a police report, the divers found a jar—filled with a "suspicious substance," the report says—in the mud in the lake, about 20 feet from a dock near the 2800 block of Lake Washington Boulevard, and called police.

SPD divers came out to the scene on April 13th and retrieved the jar, which they turned over to the King County Medical Examiner's office. Medical investigators quickly determined that the "suspicious substance" in the jar was in fact a human fetus.

"It’s like something you’d see at a medical school" says James Apa, spokesman for the King County Medical Examiner's office. "It was in a jar in [formaldehyde], which is how you preserve medical specimens."

According to Apa, the Medical Examiner's office determined the fetus "did not have any forensic value" and was "non-viable." Medical examiners did not perform an autopsy.

Apa says medical investigators did not determine the origin of the bottled fetus.

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Hopefully they unscrewed the lid so that little child's soul can get to heaven.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on April 21, 2009 at 10:10 AM

Is that the new Energy Drink from China?

Posted by BottledFetus on April 21, 2009 at 10:15 AM

Is it too late for extreme unction?

Posted by Matt from Denver on April 21, 2009 at 10:15 AM

that bottled pregnant lady must've miscarried. sad.

Posted by ScrewYouRusty on April 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM

It was in formaldehyde, so this isn't some kid trying to ditch her miscarriage. It's probably swiped from a lab or a museum, and whoever stole it either got cold feet or has squeamish roommates.

Posted by Fnarf on April 21, 2009 at 10:23 AM

So THAT'S where I left lil Junior.

Posted by heywhatsit on April 21, 2009 at 10:23 AM

Pickled punk!

Posted by Luckier on April 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM

The origin of it was inside a lady, medical investigators.

Posted by elenchos on April 21, 2009 at 10:48 AM

So, if they knew it was non-viable... does that mean it had some sweet abnormalities?

Posted by Aislinn on April 21, 2009 at 10:59 AM

But was it.... MURDER?!!

Posted by Every Right To Life Idiot, Ever on April 21, 2009 at 11:08 AM

After picturing this, I will never smile again.

Posted by Bub on April 21, 2009 at 11:10 AM

i have been jarring up my sperm and sending it from madison beach over to kirkland where a young woman has been jarring up her eggs and sending them towards seattle.

its a cry to communication of yore. its romantic.

Posted by yungrii on April 21, 2009 at 11:10 AM

My mom said that circus freak shows in her youth often featured displays of bottled fetuses.

I forget if they included two headed fetuses or the like.

Posted by Tod Browning fan on April 21, 2009 at 11:12 AM

This will be used in an ad, juxtaposing the jar with a half-floating Laura Palmer.

"If anti-lifers had their way, we'd never have Twin Peaks. Think about it."

Posted by Baconcat on April 21, 2009 at 11:13 AM

and you wonder why a majority of americans don't think you are fit to have marriage

Posted by sad on April 21, 2009 at 11:19 AM

@14 haha! Yeah if Laura's mom had aborted her, when would her dad have had the chance to kill her?!

Posted by Dale Cooper on April 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM

It wants toi be an egg mcmuffin.

in a jar.

Posted by The Amazing Jim on April 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM

@15

A. Jonah's not gay.
B. Jonah didn't put the fetus in the jar and throw it in the Lake...OR DID HE?

Posted by Hernandez on April 21, 2009 at 11:34 AM

Fnarf..you're a genius. How did you ever figure that out?

Posted by duh on April 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM

@14 - nobody watches Twin Peaks.

Posted by JF on April 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM

@18-
@15 is directed to commenters

Posted by heartless AND stupid is no way to go through life on April 21, 2009 at 12:20 PM

@ 21, most of us are straight.

Posted by you're right, heartless and stupid is no way to go thru life on April 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM

I can't believe somebody would throw away a perfectly good bottled fetus! Those things are hella expensive.

Posted by robot on April 21, 2009 at 12:33 PM

Wait, wasn't there a bunch of chatter yesterday about anti-choice groups being out in full force last Sunday? It's probably just some left over schwag.

Posted by Dougsf on April 21, 2009 at 12:50 PM

Forget Twin Peaks, did these kids never see Lars von Trier's "The Kingdom"?!?

Put that thing back before it's too late!!!

Posted by Timrrr on April 21, 2009 at 12:56 PM

22 keep telling yerself that, buddy

Posted by yer secrets safe with us ; on April 21, 2009 at 1:32 PM

Are there bottle nosed mermaids in lake washington? maybe it fell out of one......

Posted by Dame Judith on April 21, 2009 at 2:24 PM

Maybe some Catholic School kids stole it from the creepy anti-abortion ladies who showed up and tried to freak them out and put a scare into them. Oh, sorry. Remembering my high school days...and imagining what if.

Wonder where those creepy people got those bottles from?

Posted by Wore a Uniform on April 21, 2009 at 2:59 PM

I think #24 got it right.

Posted by Geni on April 21, 2009 at 3:16 PM

I MISSED THE FETUS BOOTH? fuck!

Posted by mrbanana on April 21, 2009 at 4:39 PM

It's was Loveschild and I's love child. She couldn't wait to flush that thing. I never thought she'd be able to get pregnant, what with her seventeen abortions and six miscarriages, but I guess my swimmers know how to breed.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay on April 21, 2009 at 7:34 PM