A taxi cab was tasked to keep a human heart for few hours at its dispatch office after an airline refused to keep it overnight at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids.

The human heart, which was en route to a tissue processing company in Atlanta, was denied delivery by officials from Aeropoint Delivery Solutions of Marietta, Georgia. The cab company, however, said that it will keep the heart as the ice in the packaging to keep it intact.

AP quotes Yellow Cab general manager Sean Genell as saying, "We see a lot of strange stuff, but for us, it was a box, it was a delivery."

Though the heart did go out safely as scheduled on Comair, the airline said it "does not have the appropriate facilities to store it" and it also doesn't "want to accept liability for a heart or any other package."