so as some of you might know, when Ted Williams died, his family paid to have his body cryogenicly frozen...well apparently the cryogenics company, Alcor, had all types of fucked up shit going on in it...mutilating bodies, etc...wild shit...one of the former higher ups at Alcor left and went into hiding and has a book coming out soon...anyway, its pretty fucked up what they did to Williams' body

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/02/2009-10-02_book_reveals_chilling_details_of_how_cryonic_lab_thumped_remains_of_baseball_imm.html

10/2/2009 2:23:18 PM

god damn

10/2/2009 2:31:07 PM

article has been pulled?

10/2/2009 2:39:56 PM

link is working again, but here's the text in case they pull it again

Quote :

"Ted Williams' frozen head for batting practice at cryogenics lab: book BY NATHANIEL VINTON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Updated Friday, October 2nd 2009, 10:44 AM Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams - even using it for a bizarre batting practice, a new tell-all book claims. In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., graphically describes how The Splendid Splinter" was beheaded, his head frozen and repeatedly abused. The book, out Tuesday from Vanguard Press, tells how Williams' corpse became "Alcorian A-1949" at the facility, where bodies are kept suspended in liquid nitrogen in case future generations learn how to revive them. Johnson writes that in July 2002, shortly after the Red Sox slugger died at age 83, technicians with no medical certification gleefully photographed and used crude equipment to decapitate the majors' last .400 hitter. Williams' severed head was then frozen, and even used for batting practice by a technician trying to dislodge it from a tuna fish can. The chief operating officer of Alcor for eight months before becoming a whistleblower in 2003, Johnson wrote his book while in hiding, fearful for his life. He told the Daily News then he had received death threats and was moving from safehouse to safehouse. Johnson plans to come out of the shadows Tuesday, with his book and an appearance on ABC's "Nightline." Johnson said he wired himself with an audio recorder for his last three months at Alcor, stole internal records and took gruesome photographs that are reproduced in the book. The book describes other atrocities at Alcor's facility in Arizona, including the dismembering of live dogs that were injected with chemicals in experiments, and a situation in which human blood and toxic chemicals were dumped into a parking lot sewer drain. It also also details suspicious circumstances involving the bodies of two people who are frozen in steel cylinders at Alcor: gay rights activist John Dentinger and Dora Kent, an elderly woman whose son, Saul Dent, gave Alcor lots of money. Nothing in the book is as gruesome as Johnson's descriptions of what happened to Williams' body after it was sent to Alcor at the direction of the Williams' son John Henry Williams, who died of leukemia in 2004. In 2003, The News reported that Buzz Hamon, the ballplayer's close friend and former director of the Ted Williams Museum in Hernando, Fla., sneaked into Alcor with the help of a mortician friend. Hamon said he was "appalled" by the conditions there, where Williams' body and more than 50 others were stored in steel tanks alongside cardboard boxes and junk. Hamon died in 2004, reportedly committing suicide. Johnson writes that holes were drilled in Williams' severed head for the insertion of microphones, then frozen in liquid nitrogen while Alcor employees recorded the sounds of Williams' brain cracking 16 times as temperatures dropped to -321 degrees Fahrenheit. Johnson writes that the head was balanced on an empty can of Bumble Bee tuna to keep it from sticking to the bottom of its case. Johnson describes watching as another Alcor employee removed Williams' head from the freezer with a stick, and tried to dislodge the tuna can by swinging at it with a monkey wrench. The technician, no .406 hitter like the baseball legend, missed the can with several swings of the wrench and smacked Williams' head directly, spraying "tiny pieces of frozen head" around the room. Johnson accuses the company of joking morbidly about mailing Williams' thawing remains back to his family if his son didn't pay his outstanding debt to the company. Reprints of invoices show that Alcor president John Lemler charged $120,000 for the honor of "suspending" Teddy Ballgame's body. A former paramedic, Johnson first blew the whistle on Alcor in a 2003 Sports Illustrated article about Williams' stored body. He drew criticism at the time for an aborted attempt to sell photos online purportedly showing Williams' corpse. Johnson said he hopes his book will help fulfill the wishes Williams expressed in his will - that his body be cremated and the ashes "sprinkled at sea off the coast of Florida, where the water is very deep." "

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10/2/2009 2:40:25 PM

Seriously?

10/2/2009 2:45:44 PM

wow

10/2/2009 2:52:41 PM

me thinks alcor's stock is about to shit the bed (if it's publically traded) and its not

me thinks alcor's sales just went down the shitter

jeebus



[Edited on October 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM. Reason : oops]

10/2/2009 2:54:06 PM

holy fuck that's twisted

10/2/2009 2:58:53 PM

wow ...

10/2/2009 3:17:41 PM

Wow. On a better note:

I like my doctor. He is a surgeon and also owns his own private practice. He is def. on high doses of test and HGH. He is 50 and looks 30. Every girl in his office is smoking hot with fake tits and nose jobs. He drives a brand new porsche.

10/2/2009 3:19:04 PM

Last month I told him I never work out.

Then I saw him at the gym 8 hours later

I was doing squats

10/2/2009 3:20:35 PM

^good story

10/2/2009 5:35:54 PM

one of the more fucked up things ive heard. ever. it makes me think that some of these people are probably borderline serial killer types to do some of this shit.

i wonder if that dude really commited suicide or maybe they found out he snuck in and killed him.

10/2/2009 9:43:49 PM

so ted williams is still dead?

10/2/2009 9:49:05 PM

^^^^ cool stories bro

10/2/2009 9:56:36 PM