We Need More Outrage! Quick! Make Something Up!

J.J. Jackson* | November 30, 2006

The physics of the situation be damned. After all, most Americans can’t tell if something is not possible so just say whatever come to your mind in order to get people pissed off.

(November 30, 2006) — A woman says she saw a soldier’s flag-draped coffin put into a cart with passengers’ baggage last month at the Greater Rochester International Airport, shocking her and other onlookers.

“It looked awful, just awful,” Cynthia Hoag, 56, of Dansville, Livingston County, said Wednesday. “Maybe we made too much out of it, but it was very disturbing to us. If that had been my son, I would have been very upset.”

To which the response came

Procedurally, a coffin wouldn’t come down a luggage belt with other baggage, he said.

Also, a baggage cart isn’t large enough to fit a coffin and other luggage, he said.

“It couldn’t happen. It’s physically impossible,” Damelio said.

He said the airport was unable to find video of the incident.

Nonetheless, the witness’ description prompted Brooks to urge the Defense Department to change policies on the transportation of the coffins of dead soldiers.

Ok, so it is simple. All a reporter has to do is go out to the airport and take a few measurements. Heck they could even take a crate the same size as that which Ms. Hoag claims to have seen and see if the details of her story check out.

But has anyone done that? Nope. The story is just too good to pass up. Right up there with the dead frogman in a tree fairytale and any number of other assorted urban legends.

Show me video and we’ll talk more.

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