Today’s Mixed-Up Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Employees of a Pennsylvania pet store expecting a shipment of tropical fish and salt water got a man’s dead body instead. Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store in northeast Philadelphia, where the mix-up was discovered. He says he learned the body was that of a 65-year-old San Diego-area man who died of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. The body was supposed to go to a research laboratory in Allentown, a 70-mile drive away. US Airways Inc. released a statement saying the air cargo problem was caused by a “verbal miscommunication between a delivery driver and the cargo representative.” The Tempe, Ariz.-based airline says it’s deeply sorry. The fish were shipped in three boxes. The corpse was shipped in a wooden coffin wrapped in cardboard. Arabia says the fish were left at the airport and probably died.
Culled from: Chron.Com
Generously submitted by: asm1976
Those poor fish!!!
Poor fish.
And poor store owners, they’ve lost a lot of money this way. And poor dead-man’s family. As if losing a loved one to Alzheimer’s wasn’t bad enough.