Dead man wakes up under autopsy knife

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"Dead" man wakes up under autopsy knife

CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy. [continued]
http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnN1499758.html
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnN1499758.html


I'm sceptical, how do they KNOW he's alive and not just a zombie?
 
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jcsd said:
I'm sceptical, how do they KNOW he's alive and not just a zombie?

No chickens mentioned in the report; therefore, no zombies. You can't have one without the other.
 
Danger said:
No chickens mentioned in the report; therefore, no zombies. You can't have one without the other.

Chickens? I didn't know zombies go for chicken flesh, too.
 
Adds a whole new perspective to this exchange between a lawyer and a doctor during a trial:

Q: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"
A: "No."
Q: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
A: "No."
Q: "Did you check for breathing?"
A: "No."
Q: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"
A: "No."
Q: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
A: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
Q: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
A: "It is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."