Snakes on a Plane … Hardly, How About Heads On a Plane … Southwest Airlines, Wanna Get Away

So much for “Snakes on a Plane” … how about finding heads on a plane instead? Such was the case when an employee with a Southwest Airlines discovered the package on a  flight  to Fort Worth, TX.

A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said.

“It wasn’t labeled or packaged properly,” said Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman. “They called the local authorities.”

The incident happened in Little Rock, Ark., last Wednesday, she said.

Little Rock police turned the package over to the county coroner, who questions where they came from and if they were properly obtained.

Of course in reading this bizarre story the obvious came to mind and that was the quotes from the 1997 movie Austin Powers:  International Man of Mystery.

[Austin and Vanessa see a man decapitated]
Austin Powers: Not the time to lose one’s head.
Vanessa Kensington: No.
Austin Powers: That’s not the way to get ahead in life.
Vanessa Kensington: No.
Austin Powers: It’s a shame he wasn’t more headstrong.
Vanessa Kensington: Hmm.
Austin Powers: He’ll never be the head of a major corporation.
Vanessa Kensington: Okay, that’ll do.
Austin Powers: Okay.

Then there is the real side of this story. Imagine being the airport screener checking out this package and finding 40 to 60 human heads. Talk about your traumatic experiences, especially when the package appeared to be mislabeled. Mediaite raises yet another question … was this a legitimate package just improperly labeled or a black market enterprise for human heads? EESH!

You’ve got to ask yourself, which is more horrifying: that there is a profitable black market our there selling human heads, or that it’s totally common occurrence for a shipment like this to be sitting in the back of the planes you board?