Woman Carrying Human Head Arrested in Fla.
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… [A] Haitian-born permanent U.S. resident, was charged Friday with smuggling a human head into the U.S. without proper documentation.
Just when I’d begun to think I’d heard just about everything, I’m proven wrong. I realize that throughout the history of commercial air aviation people have tried all sorts of different things to deal with the stress of flying. Carrying a human head with you in an effort to ward off evil spirits is definitely a new one. I suppose that’s one way to scare off terrorists, eh?
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.
“Severe also stated that the purpose of the package was to ward off evil spirits,” Hernandez wrote.
Indeed. Man, you’d think that if she was concerned about warding off evil spirits, she would have just helped herself to the tiny bottles of Jim Beam on the plane’s beverage cart….
