Fairportfan wrote:The implication i inferred form the story is that it wasn't Customs who found them...
Depends on how the box was labeled. If it ran under Human Remains or Perishable, and the packing label listed the proper contents, why would it be any of their business? In my years at AA Cargo, I shipped a great number of oddities and sundries. I could see it now.
"Uhh... boss? You gotta see this."
"Packing list says one dozen human heads. Is that what is in there?"
"Er... yes."
"Great, are the papers in order? Twelve copies of the packing list with the Consulate stamp?"
"Yes sir, all the papers are in order."
"Great, anything else in there that shouldn't be? No little drug baggies in the mouths or anything?"
"Uhhh... no sir"
"Approve it and move it, we've got six tons of cargo to deal with today."
There's certainly nothing illegal about shipping cadaver pieces as medical samples to a medical institution, after all.
The investigation would be why a perishable shipment of human remains/medical samples got stuck at the airport. Was it a SNAFU in the customs inspection? Did the consignee not show up to pick it up? You've got a dozen rotting heads in the cargo room... figuring out why they are STILL there is more important than how they got there in the first place, since the paper trail makes the latter ridiculously easy to confirm and would take all of thirty seconds and a SABRE consol.