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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Luckily the owner is a necrophiliac


Expecting Fish, Pet Store Gets Corpse
AP

PHILADELPHIA (March 10) - 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 Tuesday. 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.

Alright this is it! First U.S. Airways loses the Yale kid's XBOX and now they deliver the dead guy to the pet shop. You guys screw up 16 or 17 more times and we might have to fine your ass.

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