UPDATE: Skull and Bones Ballot Box Taken Off the Auction Block
Sorry, tin-foil-hat brigade. Turns out that Bones’ grisly human skull ballot box and its accompanying revelatory black book will not see the light of day after all. Christie’s recently cancelled the upcoming auction, withdrawing the items after receiving a mysterious “title claim.” Speculation: Maybe Skull and Bones wanted it back to use as a quirky mint jar? The skull’s enigmatic “European art dealer” owner absconded to the Maldives? Christie’s realized that nobody in their right mind would pay $20,000 for a moldy piece of irrelevant memorabilia?
Or, to quote Stephen Colbert:
“You should have seen where they stuffed the ballots before the guy died.”
Through all this, we’re still a little confused as to why nobody has asked the obvious question: Who’s godforsaken skull is this, anyway? Were these post-mortem shenanigans in his will? Was he an organ donor?
Maybe we’re off-base here, but we’re pretty sure that human corpse theft–especially for use in a college clubhouse–might warrant a little investigation. Are the CSI folks available?
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