Man's Body Delivered To Pet Store

Oops! Employees expecting a shipment of tropical fish and salt water got a man's dead body instead.

By: Jamie Burch | WKRG-TV
Published: March 11, 2009

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - 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.

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