Just in time for Halloween. Good entryway to your house for the trick-or- treaters.





Officials with the University of Kansas Cancer Center are willing to pay good money to anyone who can locate a stolen inflatable colon.

Medical center officials announced Friday that they are offering $1,000 in reward money to anyone who can track down a large, inflatable human colon spanning ten feet and weighing 150 pounds.

Someone pilfered the inflatable human organ from the back of a pickup truck in early October. The intestine, which is valued at $4,000, had been in a Kansas City neighborhood for a walk/run event, the Kansas City Star reported.

One local events coordinator for colon cancer awareness group in Kansas City thought whoever stole the blow-up colon ditched it.

“There’s not much of a black market for a giant inflatable colon,” said Stacie Moody, the events coordinator for Get Your Rear in Gear-Kansas City.



Officials are hoping the quest to find the inflatable colon can prompt people to get screened for colon cancer.

The American Society of Gastroenterology donated $1,000 to the center in the hopes someone could find it in their heart to return the blow-up colon.

“Colorectal cancer screening is the most powerful weapon we have against colorectal cancer,” said John Ashcraft, a surgical oncologist at the center. “Colon cancer is a tough subject for many to talk about and the giant, 150-pound, 10-foot-long inflatable colon is a great conversation starter.”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech...ng-inflatable-colon/

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“There’s not much of a black market for a giant inflatable colon,” said Stacie Moody, the events coordinator for Get Your Rear in Gear-Kansas City.

Aw, blow it out your....never mind.

Oh, crap!

Someone had to.

Half a colon.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Half a colon.

Semi-colon, you might say;

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:

“There’s not much of a black market for a giant inflatable colon,”

You'd be surprised . . .

Half a mega colon

Kansas Medical Center:

flashguy

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Kansas Medical Center:

flashguy

Took me a while but I see what you did there

UPDATE: FOUND!

Everything is regular again:

https://www.circa.com/story/20...out-of-thieves-hands

Officers in Kansas City, Mo., are relieved to have finally solved the mystery of the 10-foot-by-10-foot inflatable colon that had been stolen from the University of Kansas' Cancer Center.

On Monday, KC police pushed out an update about the case, saying the 150-pound inflatable intestine was found in a vacant house. The public had previously been pinched for details about the disappearance, leading to a Twitter storm of proctology jokes and the hashtag #StolenColon.

BREAKING: WE HAVE RECOVERED THE STOLEN COLON. Thanks to a tip, officers found the giant, inflatable, pilfered intestine in a vacant house in the 7100 block of Virginia. No one in custody yet. Investigation is continuing. #stolencolon pic.twitter.com/QAILIr3G6d
— Kansas City Police (@kcpolice) October 29, 2018

Police said the investigation continues into the 11-day disappearance and no arrests have been made yet.

While the search was ongoing, deposits were piled on the Colon Cancer Coalition, allowing the group to order two replacement colons.

Even before the theft, the colon was often on the loose, as it travels around the Kansas City area as a tool to raise awareness about colon cancer.

With this case nearly wiped from the books, there's a little less grunt work on the Kansas City police beat today.

Well that came out okay in the end.