PHILADELPHIA (AP) — 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, Pa. 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.- – – -Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Pet store expects fish shipment, gets corpse
March 9, 2009