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It’s always been said that you can find anything at an auction. You’ll find those rare and hard to find items as well as the just plain strange and sometimes grotesque. Here’s one of the later:

Maiden police said the man opened up the smoker and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it, he found a human leg, cut off 2 to 3 inches above the knee.

The smoker had been sold at an auction of items left behind at a storage facility, so investigators contacted the mother and son who had rented the space where the smoker was found.

The mother, Peg Steele, explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery “for religious reasons” she doesn’t know much about.

(full article)

After an hour of brain wracking I still cannot pin down the religious beliefs that say you must hold on to amputated body parts. But hey, to each their own.

I wonder how traumatized the purchaser was?

Hello officer, I’d like to report a missing item of mine. You see, I had some odd pound of cocaine in a couple of backpacks and they just disappeared on me! What are you doing with those handcuffs sir?

Federal agents thought there was something fishy about Leroy Carr.

On four occasions since last December, Carr either crossed the Canadian border or was found near it with thousands of dollars in cash, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court. He also sometimes carried night vision goggles and a GPS device programmed with coordinates for a well-known drug-smuggling trail.

But Carr refused to speak with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and they let him go — until he called to ask if they had seen his cocaine.

(Full story)

This news article actually inspired the addition of a new category to Scuttlebutt Pipeline, Tales of Stupidity, because I’m just finding that many stupid acts. For more stories of stupidity you might want to visit Mari’s blog, which offers a week feature called Stoopid Saturday. You’ll bust a gut laughing, I promise.