# Man with No Brains Arrested for Selling Same **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 3, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804 "2014-01-03T16:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804/1 "2014-01-03T16:07:01Z")
Story [here](http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/03/us/indianapolis-stolen-brains-ebay/index.html?hpt=us_c2). But some guy in Indiana stole 60 brains that had belonged to dead mental patients and tried to sell them on eBay. The handover was supposed to be in a Dairy Queen. I do like CNN’s question heading: “Is it common to purchase brains on eBay?” ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804/2 "2014-01-03T16:11:08Z")
So that is how zombies feed these days! ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804/3 "2014-01-03T16:54:28Z")
I’m hoping this shows up as a zombie thread in a few months/years. ---
**Author:** ![Cognoscant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Cognoscant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cognoscant)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804/4 "2014-01-03T21:31:01Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > But some guy in Indiana stole 60 brains that had belonged to dead mental patients and tried to sell them on eBay. The handover was supposed to be in a Dairy Queen. For a limited time, it’s Dairy Queen’s Crazy Brain Freeze Blizzard! You can get it in chocolate, strawberry, or original prion flavors! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804/5 "2014-01-03T22:54:33Z")
Was one of them named Abbey? Abbey Normal? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804/6 "2014-01-03T23:04:28Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Was one of them named Abbey? > > Abbey Normal? No but one was Anne Uumellmahaye. ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804/7 "2014-01-03T23:13:15Z")
I grew up in Indiana, I had to check to see if I might know the guy. I don’t. Would have been funny as hell if his name was Igor though.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804/8 "2014-01-04T00:18:46Z")
He should’ve stuck to brain trafficking on Craigslist. No one would have noticed. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804/9 "2014-01-04T06:51:30Z")
Rereading this thread, I was wondering…ps there some kind of “brain repository” in hospitals where they do autopsies? Why are brains kept after the subject is dead and buried? It’s like Einstein’s brain-winding up in some guy’s closet, decades later. And Kennedy’s brain-nobody knows where that wound up. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2014, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804/10 "2014-01-04T11:48:34Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > And Kennedy’s brain-nobody knows where that wound up. Jackie’s dress, wunnit? ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804/11 "2014-01-04T15:14:09Z")
Brain and brain! What is brain?!? ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-with-no-brains-arrested-for-selling-same/677804/12 "2014-01-05T01:58:22Z")
Have Pinky’s whereabouts been determined?