'Exotic' doesn't seem to mean the same thing to kids these days...

Houston Chronicle: Severed hand found at exotic dancer's home

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. - A severed hand was found at the home of an exotic dancer who decorated her home with skulls. She was charged with improper disposition of human remains.

Friends said the hand had been given to the woman by a medical student.

Police responding to a report of a suicidal person at the home of Linda Kay, 31, discovered the hand in a jar of formaldehyde. No suicidal person was found.

Six skulls were found in another room, and the Middlesex County medical examiner determined that all are human.

Kay was arrested Friday and freed on $100,000 bail pending arraignment today.

Two people who knew Kay said that the hand, which Kay nicknamed "Freddy," was a gift from a medical student who frequented an all-nude juice bar where she dances.

1) He must have run out of ones.

2) "All-nude juice bar"??? I would think one must be drunk to think a severed hand is going to get you anywhere with a stripper.

Kay's mother, Patricia Ann Kay, said her daughter bought the skulls from a mail order catalog.

Some people (like Stephen King) can make the creepy seem mundane. Mrs. Kay is not one of them.