Gothamist: Controversial "Bodies" Exhibit Agrees to Offer Refunds

jaja007

Fri, 30 May 2008 12:18:54 -0500

I loved the exhibit. The best part is at the end, when you get to handle to internal organs. If this is how the Chinese government treats their own people, why should the USA care? The people are dead! Let their bodies be used to educate others. I learned a lot looking at the lungs of a smoker versus a non smoker, or that body of the very obese woman. It looks like Cuomo submitted to the politically correct threats of that racial hustler Chun "John" Liu and his merry gang of whiners.

austinvegas

Fri, 30 May 2008 10:04:50 -0500

I thought this exhibit was sweet! I got my 3d illuminated mouse heart key chain when I left too... As long as these bodies weren't robbed from graves who cares; they provide a visual understanding of the working of the human body. I'd still go again.

angry_pickle

Fri, 30 May 2008 01:19:41 -0500

unless it was the real michael jordon with a basketball. And why the heck does it matter who exactly it was? And why would you want to see that in the first place? Makes no sense. I always suspected these cadavers might be immorally obtained. This is China where some fat @ss newly minted capitalist will do anything for a buck.

sonyactivision

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:32:56 -0500

^Bergdorf's nixed that idea for their "Dressed To Killing Fields" promotion a few years back, but there is a rumor going around that they intend to move ahead with the "Texas Barbecue Roundup" featuring life-like mannequins on lethal injection tables sporting the new Hilfiger line.

west side Michael

Thu, 29 May 2008 22:06:26 -0500

Let' see China was given 25 million dollars for these murdered human cadavers as an art info event Crime does pay what an incentive to kill more prisoners there .This is a crime in itself that we have this exhibit I guess the Pol Pot skulls at Bergdorf Goodman is next maybe as mannequin heads.

Snoopy

Thu, 29 May 2008 19:27:14 -0500

I'd like a return on my dollars never spent. How are they going to determine who went there or who didn't?

S.D.

Thu, 29 May 2008 18:28:19 -0500

... ... Not fan of this "Art", but to think these may have been executed Prisoners is disturbing.

TKaisen

Thu, 29 May 2008 17:09:36 -0500

Why is anyone who went to see this entitled to their money back? What a friggin waste of tax dollars.

sonyactivision

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:59:08 -0500

The visible muscle tone of these cadavers proves the fair and adequate treatment of prisoners in China. If U.S. prisoners were put on similar display, we'd be treated to meth mouth, bitch tits and a blubbery "inner tube".

robingee

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:40:58 -0500

Pretty gross, but why a refund? Maybe a donation to Amnesty Intl or something?

Tgirl

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:23:37 -0500

desecration of the dead, period.

thejuice

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:19:49 -0500

hey, that's an nyu dorm in the background. LET THE FLAMING COMMENCE

whantmoore

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:17:40 -0500

If only we treated our criminals like this there might be a lot less crime

grooverider

Thu, 29 May 2008 15:31:19 -0500

I knew before I went that these were former Chinese prisoners. It made it more interesting.

Rocknrope

Thu, 29 May 2008 15:24:31 -0500

Me chinese, me make joke, me put enemies of the state that have been extraordinarily rendered by our government, flay them, and make them hold a football Heisman-style.

JacqueMehoff

Thu, 29 May 2008 15:18:17 -0500

$27.50 to see that? unless it was the real michael jordon with a basketball. I ain't paying that to see a bunch of asians holding a football, thinking, or dunking a basketball around. this show is horrible and disgusting. no wonder it's at the south street seaport. manhattan's version of the ghetto coney island.

Gotham City Insider Wuz Here

Thu, 29 May 2008 15:14:13 -0500

The only thing has been proved is that they can't prove where the bodies came from. Why we should get our money back is beyond me. I saw the exhibit right? Why am I getting a refund?

interlard

Thu, 29 May 2008 15:06:44 -0500

This has been obvious to me right from the start. I'm very pleased there has been a legal settlement and news story about it. The whole thing is disgusting and goes against all the principles that this, and most other countries, stand for.

CR

Thu, 29 May 2008 14:36:14 -0500

Forget money - I want my skin back!