OMEN
01-31-2008, 09:25 AM
A hotel guest got a shock in Tasmania when he received a foam cold box containing a single human eyeball.
The box marked 'Live human organs for transplant' was delivered by mistake to a hotel in Hobart by a taxi driver.
Hotel worker Gabriel Winner, who requested the name of the hotel not be used, says the agitated guest brought the box to reception.
"The guy left with me with a box with an eyeball in it,'" he told the Mercury.
"I thought this is just too weird. I went and put it in the fridge because I didn't know what else to do with it. It was more than a little disconcerting."
An Australian Air Express spokeswoman confirmed a "failure in an internal handover process'" and apologised.
"As soon as we discovered the error we quickly rectified that and delivered the consignment within the appropriate timeframe,'" she said.
Queensland Health spokeswoman Penny Geraghty said tissue from the eye was recovered and successfully transferred to a patient.
"Nobody missed their operation. The tissue wasn't compromised," she said.
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The box marked 'Live human organs for transplant' was delivered by mistake to a hotel in Hobart by a taxi driver.
Hotel worker Gabriel Winner, who requested the name of the hotel not be used, says the agitated guest brought the box to reception.
"The guy left with me with a box with an eyeball in it,'" he told the Mercury.
"I thought this is just too weird. I went and put it in the fridge because I didn't know what else to do with it. It was more than a little disconcerting."
An Australian Air Express spokeswoman confirmed a "failure in an internal handover process'" and apologised.
"As soon as we discovered the error we quickly rectified that and delivered the consignment within the appropriate timeframe,'" she said.
Queensland Health spokeswoman Penny Geraghty said tissue from the eye was recovered and successfully transferred to a patient.
"Nobody missed their operation. The tissue wasn't compromised," she said.
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