It’s Pets Plus a body after mis-delivery
Pet store employees expecting a shipment of tropical fish and saltwater got a man’s dead body instead.
Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store 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, 70 miles away.
US Airways Inc. said the air cargo problem was caused by a “verbal miscommunication” and apologized.
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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