Bone Found In Socks

[GNC]

Saw this in the FT, doesn't seem to be any follow-up:
News report

A human bone was found in a pair of socks bought from Colchester Primark. Sounds like there should be a terrific pun here, but I'll leave that to others. Any idea how the bone got there? The company claimed it must have been added after it was sent out to the store.

 

[Shady]

Wonder if someone is getting rid of a body gradually

 

[PeteS]

Wonder if someone is getting rid of a body gradually

Gulp. Gonna avoid Primark then.

 

[EnolaGaia]

Draheste reported this incident 3 months ago in the Weird Tales from Reddit thread (post #357) ...

https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/weird-tales-from-reddit.47527/post-1821762

 

[ramonmercado]

THEY want us to believe that there's nothing to see here ...

POLICE IN THE UK have said the discovery of a piece of bone in a pair of Primark socks is not linked to a criminal act.

The discovery of the small piece of bone was reported in January of this year. An Essex Police investigation has now concluded and “it is a possibility it was placed in the sock in its country of origin, but this cannot be confirmed”.

“At this time it is not linked to a criminal act,” police said. “We have investigated this as far as we believe is reasonably and proportionately possible and the investigation has been filed.

https://www.thejournal.ie/primark-human-bone-4948160-Dec2019/

 

[GNC]

Where does one go about getting a piece of human bone to place in a sock, anyway?

 

[JamesWhitehead]

According to the original article, "The bone does not appear to be a result of recent trauma and had no skin or other particles surrounding it."

Primark's manufacturers had a bad reputation but disposing of their slowest workers incrementally, one sock at a time*, always seemed unlikely. It would be traumatic for a Primark sock-purchaser to discover that the first penis in the sock was not his own!

*Shades of The Great Escape?

 

[PeteS]

*Shades of The Great Escape?

Seems a bit extreme to escape your workplace one bit at a time though.

 

[IbisNibs]

Where does one go about getting a piece of human bone to place in a sock, anyway?

You used to be able to go to this place:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bone-room

 

[escargot]

If this is a human bone, presumably it's been tested so I'm assuming DNA was found. In which case surely some at least tentative identification could be made?

 

[INT21]

Probably more information in the footnotes.

 

[PeteS]

Probably more information in the footnotes.

In the footnotes geddit eh?