ARMLESS

A group of medical students at Bristol University hit upon a novel prank they could play. They managed to get hold of an arm of a cadaver and then drove off towards the Severn Bridge. Just before they reached the toll booth over the bridge, the driver put the dead arm through the sleeve of his jacket and placed several coins in its hand. The student drove up to the toll booth and extended the arm. The poor man behind the toll booth must have been horrified when the car drove off, leaving him holding the limb. Unfortunately for the students, however, fingerprints were taken from the hand of the arm, traced back to the cadaver at the university and the group of students identified. The students were not expelled, but their professor failed them in anatomy because it seemed they had used a left arm instead of a right arm.

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