# 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:** 3
**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, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/41 "2012-06-12T20:15:29Z")
Someone is Waiting To Exhale ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/42 "2012-06-12T20:16:02Z")
Oh good you found them!! Could you please ship them back to me ASAP. ---
**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, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/43 "2012-06-12T20:19:03Z")
Shipping should be cheap; they’re lights. (And THAT, my friends, is a true word nerd pun!) ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/44 "2012-06-12T20:26:20Z")
Probably belong to **Abby Someone**. ---
**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/45 "2012-06-12T21:41:12Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Probably belong to **Abby Someone**. Win Why thank you doctor… ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/46 "2012-06-12T21:45:04Z")
Lungs? Hmm, let me check this pile of human organs I keep around for various sketchy and ill-advised experiments… Damn it, I knew left something out there! How the hell am I supposed to complete the super-Frankenstein without six complete sets of lungs?! Looks like I need to take another ‘hunting trip’. ---
**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, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/47 "2012-06-12T21:46:46Z")
She’s tidied up and I CAN’T FIND ANYTHING! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/48 "2012-06-12T21:46:48Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Lungs? Hmm, let me check this pile of human organs I keep around for various sketchy and ill-advised experiments… > > Damn it, I knew left something out there! How the hell am I supposed to complete the super-Frankenstein without six complete sets of lungs?! Looks like I need to take another ‘hunting trip’. How could you make such a stupid mistake? This isn’t brain surgery, you know! ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/49 "2012-06-12T22:28:58Z")
Now that you mention it, I _have_ been feeling a little out-of-breath lately… ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/50 "2012-06-13T00:19:37Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Sounds like somebody made good on a “I’ll rip yer lungs out!!” threat. Police have an APB out for the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent, possibly holding a Chinese menu in his hand. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/51 "2012-06-13T00:28:12Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Sounds like somebody made good on a “I’ll rip yer lungs out!!” threat. I’d like to meet his tailor. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/52 "2012-06-13T04:51:56Z")
Just saying, Face eating in FLA? Random lungs in LA? Sounds like… **THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IS NIGH** Just a warning folks, no cause for alarm:eek: **CAPT** ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/53 "2012-06-13T07:02:56Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Maybe, but the guy who lost the lungs must be breathless awaiting their return. Don’t hold your breath. ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/54 "2012-06-13T11:27:01Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’d like to meet his tailor. At least we know the victim’s name is Jim. ---
**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/55 "2012-06-13T13:26:24Z")
> [@Tapiotar](#): > > At least we know the victim’s name is Jim. His hair was purrrrfect ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/56 "2012-06-13T13:39:28Z")
I was _going_ to make haggis tonight, but I forgot to [mark](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=654235) the package, and now you’ll just have to eat spaghetti again, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/57 "2012-06-14T01:26:55Z")
Hmm, someone else must have referred to Vicki Vale as “Beast”. ---
**Author:** ![jpsultan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d9b06d/32.png) [@jpsultan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jpsultan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/58 "2012-06-18T13:57:18Z")
A pair of lungs flops into a bar. At the far stool is a man with an obvious internal organ fetish. As the lungs flop over to a stool the man checks them out the whole way. Once the lungs are at the bar, the man instantly buys them a drink and says: “How 'bout coming back to my place later for a little fun?” “Not tonight,” the lungs reply, “I forgot my diaphragm.” ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/59 "2012-06-18T14:11:16Z")
> [@jpsultan](#): > > A pair of lungs flops into a bar. > > At the far stool is a man with an obvious internal organ fetish. As the lungs flop over to a stool the man checks them out the whole way. > > Once the lungs are at the bar, the man instantly buys them a drink and says: “How 'bout coming back to my place later for a little fun?” > > “Not tonight,” the lungs reply, “I forgot my diaphragm.” Boo! But really, 😃 ! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/60 "2012-06-18T14:22:42Z")
As of June 13: > [@](#): > > Coroner’s officials in Los Angeles have taken custody of a pair of lungs found late Sunday night. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the organs and officials state that they plan to “dispose of them.” “They’re not of forensic value,” Lt. Fred Corral told the Los Angeles Times. > > The lungs, which are animal in origin, were spotted on Avalon Boulevard Sunday evening and police took them in for further analysis. Initial tests showed that they were not human and more tests must be conducted to determine exactly what animal they are from. > > Some have already begun speculating on the lungs’ origins, saying that they may be tripe (the inner organs of an animal) “to be used for food.” That would certainly be one possibility, yet it would be odd that the lungs just be dumped on the sidewalk, unless they fell out of a container. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845.md?page=4)