New wallet contains bonus teeth
A man was checking out a new wallet at a Cape Cod Walmart on Saturday but was surprised to find 10 human teeth inside. One of the teeth had a filling. The man informed the store and then left. How silly! He could have gotten 10 free teeth for the price of the wallet! The company is investigating. From the Cape Cod Times:
The wallet still had the original tags on it, but police said they cannot perform DNA tests because there was no blood and no gum tissue on the teeth..."Man discovers human teeth in new wallet" (via Fortean Times)
Police are hoping the unidentified male shopper comes forward to answer questions. Anyone else with information regarding the teeth can contact Falmouth police Det. James Pires at...
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It was at a Walmart? Then the owner of the teeth is undoubtedly Chinese.
Does tooth pulp not contain DNA?
Teeth, the source of all calcium!
Soylent Wallets are...
Better a wallet than some fresh Walmart Twinkies.
If he'd kept it overnight, the Tooth Fairy would have left 10 quarters for him. Dummy.
call me when they find one with a foot in it.
The leavings of a cattle mutilator transplanting human teeth. Evidence these mutilations are being done by dentists, possibly evil Satanic cults of extraterrestrial dentists flying in black helicopters working for the government.
Freudians refer to this as pera dentata.
teeth in a wallet might be a good idea. It would slow down your impulse spending.
All I can picture is their "falling prices" commercial with a smiling factory worker's teeth replaced with tiny number price signs.
Many dental schools have students collect "unused" teeth for practice early on. The fact that these teeth were obviously well-cleaned makes me think that this was the result of a careless student.
What I can't figure out is why one would put them in a new wallet. To see if they fit? Or as some bizarre and ill-considered joke?
Maybe it's a comment on the decay of the dollar...
I thought I was the only one that ever happened to! I bought a jewelry box at Goodwill once that had 4 wisdom teeth in it.
My wife bought a Volvo that had a molar under the rug, but we knew the owner.
Wallets are common gift items. Maybe someone put the teeth in as a gag gift and the recipient returned or exchanged it without ever looking in it.
Teeth in a wallet. I don't get the joke, though.
Walmart- Savings you can really sink your teeth into!!! Sorry I couldn't resist.
I was wallet shopping in an idaho falls fred myers. I found a wallet with $1 inside it. It still had the tags on, and the empty photo sleeve. I took it as a sign from god that I NEEDED to buy that wallet. Whoops I don't believe in god, so I took the $1 and bought a nicer wallet.
Talk about putting your money where your mouth is!
(or where parts of someone else's were....)
Anyone who plays hack will know that this is simply a bag of tricks.
He should have identified it first.
I'd like to point out the FARK headline for this had this little gem: "how decadent".
Did the 10 teeth looked like they could have come from the same person?
Why'd the police want to speak to the man? If he found it in the store, there's not much more he can tell them. Maybe the police suspected that he planted those teeth himself.