Now How Could This Happen?

Today is the sister's birthday. Happy 58th, Miss Judy!

On Monday we traveled north to do a few chores. I did purchase three Glofish at the pet store. You remember we talking about the genetically engineered fish in an earlier blog. I really could not decide if I wanted a ............

or a ........................

OK, the reason I say that is the strange tale of a pet shop owner in Philadelphia. This arrived from the Associated Press yesterday.

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.

Boy, I bet US Airways is really sorry! The company was DEAD wrong in both of the shipments.