The man and his dog were taking their usual walk through the City's Central Park neighbourhood on Thursday morning when they saw a blue and white cardboard box, about one-and-a-half feet wide and deep, with the logo of "body donation" firm “Science Care” printed on it.
“Pretty shocking. I guess I don’t see too many strange things happening around here usually, but you know you never know,” Fields told local news network Fox 31. “Wow! I would have been so terrified.”
30 October 2019, 10:29 GMT
The police department said the box was stolen from a truck delivering human remains for Science Care, a programme for people to donate their bodies to science — often in teaching anatomy to medical students.
“My wife actually does Ph.D. research at the University of Colorado Anschutz,” Fields said. “So cadavers are definitely utilized in certain situations. And I’m assuming that was probably the case.”