# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**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 18, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/61 "2012-06-18T16:20:09Z")
And now, we can all breathe easier. ---
**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 18, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/62 "2012-06-18T16:23:31Z")
::GASP!:: hmmm… ---
**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 18, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/63 "2012-06-18T19:36:13Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > 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. Free the LA Lungs! This is an outrage! All they were doing was hanging out on a Sunday evening when they were taken into custody and subjected to medical examination. And they are still being held! Were they charged with a crime? Were their rights explained to them? Since when is it against the law to be an internal organ? This kind of discrimination cannot be tolerated! I think the LA police are cold-hearted and they have some 'spleening to do. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/64 "2012-06-20T01:49:45Z")
I wonder if they belong to the man who lost his genitals at a Skytrain station in Bangkok in 2001. A cleaning lady found a set of genitals wrapped in a bundle in a rubbish bin on the top platform of Siam Skytrain Station. (This was back when they still had rubbish bins on the platforms. Those were all removed in the wake of the New Year’s Eve 2006 bombings across the city, which were connected to the military coup earlier that year.) As far as I know, they never did find the owner. They’d been frozen, as well as surgically removed, not ripped off. Could very possibly have belonged to a sex-change patient, but why they got dumped there is a mystery. The poor cleaning lady, however, is probably still in therapy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/65 "2012-06-20T12:57:56Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I wonder if they belong to the man who lost his genitals at a Skytrain station in Bangkok in 2001. Well, that’s him all over! ---
**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 21, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/66 "2012-06-21T02:12:01Z")
And then there were all those feet that washed up on the West Coast… ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845/67 "2012-06-29T05:56:48Z")
> [@](#): > > A citizen called to report what she thought were the organs about 8:30 p.m. Sunday in the 13100 block of Avalon Boulevard. . . . I had my lungs on Avalon beside the bay, I left my lungs on Avalon and sailed away. I dream of them and Avalon, from dusk till dawn And so I think I’ll travel on To Avalon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-you-lose-any-lungs-in-los-angeles/624845.md?page=3)