Am I the only one who finds the pictures of the burned out car utterly shocking? When the original news story broke about the car and the placenta, I was imagining something much milder.
I find it puzzling too. How did the placenta escape being completely incinerated, when you look at how totally the upholstery of both front seats has been destroyed?
The shot seems to be taken across the back seat from offside to nearside. You can see the burnt out frames of the seats - driver's seat still in place, passenger seat tipped forward, passenger door open.
Assuming the pixelled-out bit is the placenta, is that a laptop beneath it, still protected by the cardboard delivery packaging? How is that not burned to a cinder too?
All I can think of is that they originally salvaged them from the car but then decided they couldn't carry them and put them back into the smoking remains of the car. Is that plausible? I've got no idea how fast a car fire ignites and then subsides, or whether anything's known about how long they stayed nearby.
I can't see how anything in there wasn't totally destroyed.
JMO