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LOS ANGELES | Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:46am EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Authorities said on Monday that a pair of lungs had been found on a Los Angeles-area sidewalk and that coroner's investigators were trying to determine if they were from a human or an animal.

The organs were found by an unidentified person on Sunday night in an area just outside the city limits, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sergeant Pauline Panis said.

"It's at the coroner's office right now and they are trying to ascertain if it's human or animal," she said. A coroner's spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.

Panis said it was the first time she was aware of a pair of lungs being recovered from the streets of Los Angeles.

"It's getting weirder," she said.

(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Eric Walsh)

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GA_Chris wrote:
This story is a breath of fresh air

Jun 12, 2012 10:57am EDT  --  Report as abuse
gregbrew56 wrote:
Perhaps somebody took too big of a hit on their dispensary “medicine” and coughed one up. I saw it *almost* happen in college.

Jun 12, 2012 2:45pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
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