Placentas found in sewage system, WTF?

I thought that this shit was only supposed to happen in Florida.

Someone is disposing of placentas in a central Illinois sewage system and authorities want it to stop. Workers in Urbana on Thursday found a placenta in a filter that keeps large objects out of the sewage treatment plant — the third such find this year. So police have enlisted medical experts. “It was one of the weirdest calls I’ve ever received,” said Julie Pryde, who heads the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.

Urbana Police Lt. Bryant Seraphin remembered: “She said, ‘You found a WHAT in the WHERE?’

We can all pretty much agree that this is fucking disgusting right?

Storm sewers and toilets drain to the system, so those seem to be the likeliest routes, Pryde said, “but I don’t think my personal toilet at home would be able to flush a placenta.”

Nice detective work Julie! – via c-uphd