I don’t mean to turn !michigan@midwest.social into the Weekly World News but first a Frankfort man playing beaver with the Platte River and now…this one surprisingly flew under my radar when it started…aaah, just read it for yourself…
Pontiac — A district court judge Wednesday denied a pair of dueling $6,500 small claims petitions that centered around a transgender woman’s attempt to get her surgically removed testicles back after they were kept for months in her ex-boyfriend’s refrigerator.
[Brianna] Kingsley filed a handwritten small claims petition in August claiming [her ex William] Wojciechowski “retains possession of my surgically extracted testicles, preserved in (a) Mason jar, kept in (the) fridge next to the eggs. Demand immediate return of my human remains specimen and damages of $6,500.”
Kingsley replied: “They were my testicles. … We’re talking about my nuts. … I wanted them in my fridge — not his. … He denied me access to my own body parts. I don’t think that can be quantified. The damages were the loss of these nuts.”
After her surgery, Kinsley [sic] said she put her testicles in a Mason jar and stored them in the refrigerator “because I deal with trauma with comedy. Shakespeare did it.”
So did Tony Grassia.
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“because I deal with trauma with comedy”
I’ve heard worse reasons for keeping one’s testicles in the fridge.
Sounds like she just forgot about them tbh.
“We allow a one-time visit with a Sheriff’s officer in situations like that for people to go back to get their belongings,” the judge said. “Ms. Kingsley failed to retrieve the testicles from the refrigerator at that time. … If they were so important to her, she had the opportunity to grab them, and she didn’t.”
Wojciechowski said he threw the body parts away in July.
“They were rotting in my fridge, and it was disgusting — I’ve got food in there I wanted to eat,” Wojciechowski told the judge. “She didn’t keep them in a biohazard container like she was supposed to.”
Since the testicles had been discarded, the judge said he was unable to grant Kingsley’s request that they be returned to her, and he asked why she’d arrived at the $6,500 figure.
That seems odd. There’s a whole bunch of laws about human remains and specimens after what happened to Henrietta Lacks.
Could you elaborate? I’m aware of the long-exploited Lacks, but not of the legal aftermath. I’ve always heard that asking for an excised growth/body part would be denied because they’re deemed biohazards, but I’ve not heard anything about an individual’s ownership of cells/tissue/etc.
They never even offered to let me keep mine.
Not that I’d want them, let alone in my fridge.
This seems about on the level of keeping a dead dog in the freezer.
