- A man has been charged with stealing two human toes worth $5500 each
- The toes were part of the Body Worlds Vital exhibit featuring human remains
- He was charged with stealing and interfering with a dead man’s body
- The accused appeared in court today where he was given bail
- The 28-year-old will appear again in a New Zealand court later in the year
A 28-year-old man was charged with stealing two human toes worth $11,000 from a dead person that was featured at an exhibition that displayed human corpses.
The man appeared in court today and was charged for stealing and interfering with an unknown person’s body.
The accused appeared in the Auckland District Court today and was ‘remanded on bail’, according to the NZ Herald.
A 28-year-old man was charged with stealing two human toes worth $11,000 at the Body Worlds Vital exhibit
He will appear again in New Zealand’s Wellington District Court later in the year.
The toes were displayed in the Body Worlds Vital, a traveling exhibit that stopped by in Auckland for the first time.
The exhibition started in 1997 and was founded by Dr Angelina Whalley and Dr Gunther von Hagens.
Since then, over 17,000 people donated bodies to Dr von Hagens’ Institute for Plastination.
These bodies are sent to medical schools around the world.
Plastination, which was invented by Dr von Hagens, is meant to preserve these corpses and organs by replacing the human fluids and fats with plastic.
Through the Body Worlds Vital exhibit, the public is given the chance to closely examine these bodies and study human anatomy.
The Body Worlds Vital, established in 1997 by Dr Angelina Whalley and Dr Gunther von Hagens, uses plastination to preserve human bodies by swapping its fluids and fats with plastic
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