Police said a 68-year-old man may have saved someone's life after he turned in a "big box of blood" he'd found in the middle of a busy Madison, Wisconsin, road.
It was human blood, and it was supposed to have been delivered Sunday to the local office of the American Red Cross, said Joel Despain, a spokesman for the Madison police. The Red Cross soon confirmed that it had received only five boxes of a six-box shipment, NBC News reported.
The box was found by an unidentified 68-year-old man from the suburb of Stoughton, Despain said. Actually, the man couldn't have avoided it, seeing as how it was "smack-dab in the middle of Zeier Road," blocking his path, Despain said.
The man put the box — clearly labeled HUMAN BLOOD — in his car and flagged down a passing cop, who made some phone calls and learned the box was donated blood meant for the Red Cross' Sheboygan Avenue location.
