# Did any of you lose any lungs in Los Angeles? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 11, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845 "2012-06-11T19:29:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/1 "2012-06-11T19:29:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Los Angeles County officials are investigating what appeared to be a pair of lungs found on a sidewalk in South Los Angeles. A citizen called to report what she thought were the organs about 8:30 p.m. Sunday in the 13100 block of Avalon Boulevard, said Sgt. Robert Dean of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. “We don’t know what they are,” Dean said. “It’s really weird.” For goodness sake, if you are going to be careless enough just to leave your lungs lying around like that . . . It’s bad enough when people drop their gum wrappers on the sidewalk! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/2 "2012-06-11T19:40:08Z")
There wasn’t a package with Canadian postmarks nearby, was there? ---
**Author:** ![gunnergoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@gunnergoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunnergoz)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/3 "2012-06-11T19:43:14Z")
No, but I left my heart in San Francisco once. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/4 "2012-06-11T20:11:25Z")
They’re mine. Please don’t ask me to describe them. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/5 "2012-06-11T20:16:06Z")
I was pretty sure I saw that guy walking out of the alley with the trenchcoat drop something, but it was dark, and I couldn’t be sure. And I was gonna miss the start of the Dodger game. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/6 "2012-06-11T20:16:08Z")
Wow, the smog still must get really bad there, if someone literally coughed up a lung. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/7 "2012-06-11T20:33:21Z")
That’s sort of a rough neighborhood. Whoever it was should consider themselves lucky if they got to keep the rest of their organs. As Tom mentioned, lungs don’t do you much good in LA anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/8 "2012-06-11T22:34:41Z")
My L.A. friend Donna says they’re not hers, but now that the police said “maybe they’re dog lungs,” she will check her dog to see if he dropped them while she was walking him. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/9 "2012-06-11T23:17:07Z")
My guess is, someone stole a cooler. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/10 "2012-06-11T23:28:09Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > My guess is, someone stole a cooler. Thus, a perfectly good story was ruined by the application of logic. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/11 "2012-06-11T23:37:43Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > My guess is, someone stole a cooler. And then cooler heads prevailed? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/12 "2012-06-12T00:45:27Z")
> [@gunnergoz](#): > > No, but I left my heart in San Francisco once. I left my spleen in Scranton, Pennsylvania, but I don’t think that counts. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/13 "2012-06-12T00:58:29Z")
13100 block of Avalon Boulevard. Is that near where they found the Black Dalia? Maybe they’re hers. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/14 "2012-06-12T01:01:37Z")
Sounds like somebody made good on a “I’ll rip yer lungs out!!” threat. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/15 "2012-06-12T01:26:41Z")
Well I can’t _swear_ that they’re not mine, but I’m assuming I’d know by now if they were missing. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/16 "2012-06-12T02:03:23Z")
One of them could be from ligendary rock & roll guitarist [Link Wray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Wray), who lost a lung to tuberculosis. Yeah, he lost it about 50 years ago, but who knows how long it might take to show up again? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/17 "2012-06-12T02:15:34Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > My guess is, someone stole a cooler. And someone had to make some phone calls which left two families very disappointed today. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/18 "2012-06-12T02:26:27Z")
It’s just a flesh wound. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/19 "2012-06-12T02:40:39Z")
Oh, sure! It’s all fun and games. Until someone loses a lung! irl, I had terrible asthma when I lived in L.A. as a child in the 60s. Was told it was smog related. Smog alerts would keep us inside during recess. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/20 "2012-06-12T02:44:12Z")
Kid, don’t mess with those cigs! You’ll put a lung out playing around with them. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845.md?page=2)