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Gunther VI, a German shepherd, is selling his Biscayne Bay,
Wealthy Canine Puts ‘Dog House’ Up For Sale
Florida, Tuscan-style villa that once belonged to Ma- donna.
listed for nearly $32 million, Gunther VI hopes to take ad- vantage of the hot real estate market. But he’ll surely miss his round red velvet bed over- looking the bay.
tators $500 to observe in per- son the autopsy and dissec- tion of a human body. When investigators alerted Mike Clark, the funeral director in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who had prepared Saunders’ body for donation, he was “totally horrified.”
body would be used for, but a Med Ed spokesman says the event organizer was “beyond dishonest.”
Order Of The Day
Yes, you read that right. Gunther inherited the man- sion from Gunther IV, his handlers told The Associat- ed Press, along with a “vast fortune.” It all began when Gunther III came into a mul- timillion-dollar trust from his owner, German countess Karlotta Liebenstein. Since then, the Gunthers and their handlers have lived a lav- ish lifestyle, jetting around the world and eating out at restaurants. With the home
In other Weird reports:
A prison in Perry, Georgia, called in an order at the local McDonald’s on Nov. 9 that stunned employee Brittani Curtis, Fox5Atlanta-TV re- ported. The prison ordered 1,600 McChickens, 1,600 McDoubles and 3,200 cook- ies — and needed them in four hours.
Over My Dead Body
ILLUSTRATION BY MARK GALACGAC
But KING-TV in Portland, Oregon, reports that Med Ed sold the cadaver to Jeremy Ciliberto, the organizer of the Oddities and Curiosities Expo, which travels around the country and charges spec-
Instead, it went to a Mar- riott ballroom, where partici- pants were invited to examine and touch the body — which might still have been infec- tious. Ciliberto says he can “guarantee” that the departed and his family knew what his
“No lie, ya girl is TIRED,” Curtis posted on TikTok af- ter helping to fulfill the order, which cost about $7,400. She said the prison often orders
Dead Wrong
When David Saunders, 98, died of COVID-19 in late August, his family donated his body to Med Ed Labs for medical and science research.
“Mr. Saunders and his fam- ily thought that his body was going for the advancement of medical students,” said Clark.
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