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Pet store expects fish shipment, but gets corpse
Body was supposed to go to laboratory for medical research
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Dead body accidentally shipped to pet store March 10: A Pennsylvania pet store expecting a shipment of fish gets a dead body instead. WCAU-TV's Tim Furlong reports. NBC News Channel |
PHILADELPHIA - Employees of a Philadelphia pet store expecting to get a shipment of tropical fish and salt water by air cargo ended up getting a human body instead. Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store in Northeast Philadelphia where the mix-up was discovered Tuesday.
He said he eventually learned that the body he got 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 laboratory in Allentown so samples could be taken for medical research.
US Airways released a statement saying the problem was caused by a "verbal miscommunication between a delivery driver and the cargo representative." The airline said it's deeply sorry.
Arabia said he believes the fish died as a result.
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