Medical School
Anatomy students are divided into small groups and issued with a cadaver with which to learn about the human body through dissection.

The cadaver should be treated with dignity and respect at all times. It is never, I repeat never to be removed from the college morgue, dressed up and taken out on the piss.

Identifying a participant of a medical students piss up as being actually dead can cause distress to all concerned. Especially if the deceased has been sat in the noisy pub for some twenty minutes before anyone notices that they have in fact ceased to be.

I was myself very drunk when told of this anecdote by a medical practitioner friend, so I cannot vouch personally for the tale. I am informed however, that the students involved are blacklisted to the point that they cannot study or practice medicine anywhere.

The cadaver involved went on to enjoy a successful career impersonating Leonard Cohen.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 16 Dec 2008, 13:43, 7 replies)

I think Ive heard that story before
But if I had the chance to arse about with a dead body for comedy value Id probably lead at it. So it could have happened many a time.
(i should have joined myspace, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 13:52, closed)

Went on
To have a successful career in Government.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 13:52, closed)

I've heard a couple of tales like this...

One was the Legendary 'Jimmy White's Brother' incident, whereby the body of the aforementioned chap was taken out to the pub for 'ine last piss up'. It is now used as a nickname for anyone boring who sits in the pub and doesn't move all night.


The other one was on QI I think, where the tale was told of someone who removed the cock from a corpse, took it to a party then poked it out of his own trousers. When it was pointed out to him that the gentleman seemed to have his tadger hanging out, he proceeded to grab a big knife and 'cut' it off...cue faints from surrounding ladies.

As for these stories, yours included PJM, I don't mind if they're true or not. Because they're funny.

*Clicks*
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 16 Dec 2008, 14:00, closed)

There is a similar internet tall tale...
...involving pissed up disrespect for a cadaver. The one where a medical student takes a dead man's willy out on the piss and then goes to the bathroom and starts screaming so he gets an audience and then pretends to chop off his own with a knife and hurls the dead willy into the urinal.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 14:01, closed)

"Weekend at Bernies" anyone?
anyone?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 14:39, closed)

Was that the source?
I did state that the anecdote was third hand and I was pissed when I heard it.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 16 Dec 2008, 14:42, closed)

Urban legend?

( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Tue 16 Dec 2008, 19:23, closed)