Posted on 02/10/2006 12:49:30 PM PST by plain talk
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.
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Oh, yeah! Don't we just love this multi-cultural diversity?
(sarcasm=off)
She just wanted to be ready in case some guy asked her to give him some.
*smuggling a human head into the U.S. without proper documentation.
????*
Exactly what I wondered the instant I read it. Not sure I want to know the "proper" way to carry a head into the country..........
We honestly have "proper documentation" for those who wish to travel with a dead person's head?
All skulls must be properly documents or else they will be considered ILLEGAL ALIEN skulls and be deported.
Seems like murder or accessory thereto would be a relevant topic, no?
First Amendment! Just practicing my religion!
You are bad. LOL
Well, similar cures similar ["the hair of the dog..."}. I suggest that her head needs to be removed. Then the two heads could form nice bookends on a shelf in the Fort Lauderdale FL Customs office, to put other prospective violators in the proper state of mind during Customs inspection.
Wasn it in a hatbox a la "Crazy in Alabama"?
Austin Powers: Not the time to lose one's head.
Vanessa Kensington: No.
Austin Powers: That's not the way to get ahead in life.
Vanessa Kensington: No.
Austin Powers: It's a shame he wasn't more headstrong.
Vanessa Kensington: Hmm.
Austin Powers: He'll never be the head of a major corporation.
Vanessa Kensington: Okay, that'll do.
Austin Powers: Okay.
Auh.. come on now! It's surely got something to do with that black history appreciation month or whatever it is or... maybe she was just a bag-lady for the NAACP.
Should have quit while she was a head.
Skilled sane workers from Europe are awaiting American citizenship based on a lottery system that takes years;
Meanwhile Third World flakes are let in on the basis of this kind of "diversity," or by the Bush Mexican Border open-door policy.
Our subverted immigration policy is the single biggest gaff of the Bush Administration.
Let's just pretend for a moment that there is such a thing as documentation which allows someone to carry a decomposing human head with them on a commercial airliner. I dunno about you, but I surely would not wish to sit by someone has a human head with them.
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