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ls317

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Mon Jun-26-06 08:15 PM
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Casket Found

Edited on Mon Jun-26-06 08:18 PM by ls317

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0626B1-talker0626.html
TUCSON - Sheriff's deputies in Pima County reported Sunday the finding of an empty casket with a military seal on it.
Detectives believe the casket may have recently contained the remains of a member of the military, Deputy Dawn Barkman said.

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Drum

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Mon Jun-26-06 08:16 PM
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1. Sick!!!

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dubeskin

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Mon Jun-26-06 08:17 PM
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2. That's wrong.

Now the military is DISPOSING of the caskets after they're dead!?! That's sick, just like above said.

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TechBear_Seattle

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Mon Jun-26-06 08:47 PM
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9. You are really jumping to conclusions

I'm inclined to think that a grieving family replaced the military casket with a different one, and that someone was transporting it to one of the military bases in Arizona when it fell off the truck; or maybe the military base refused to accept it and so it was (illegally, I'll grant) discarded as otherwise indisposeable.

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MADem

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Mon Jun-26-06 09:06 PM
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13. Those flag-draped metal caskets are REUSABLE, they are not

intended to be used as burial containers. They look like giant camera cases up close. You put the corpse in a body bag inside them, and then you rinse them out after you transfer the remains either to a crematory box or an interment casket, and send them back to the sandbox to be reused.

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babylonsister

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Mon Jun-26-06 08:18 PM
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3. Here's a direct link:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0626B1-talker0626.html

This is beyond bizarre! Is no one missing a body?

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Two residents playing paintball found the casket Saturday near Interstate 10, on the south side of Tucson, Barkman said. The casket was metallic silver with an Army insignia on it. Deputies didn't find any signs of the body and put out a nationwide alert in hopes of learning more, she said.

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Earth_First

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Mon Jun-26-06 08:18 PM
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4. Organ theft?

There was recently a big investigation here locally concerning organ theft of recently deceased individuals involving a local hospital and funeral homes.

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Auntie Bush

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Mon Jun-26-06 08:42 PM
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8. Not if he was killed in Iraq...organs would be quite ripe!

I think some committed a crime which was covered up using a military casket. Probably nothing to do with the military. That's my guess.

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NNN0LHI

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Mon Jun-26-06 08:21 PM
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5. I have read caskets were used to smuggle back heroin during Vietnam

I wonder if heroin is coming back from Afghanistan the same way these days?

Don

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Drum

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Mon Jun-26-06 08:33 PM
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6. hmmmm...interesting point!

One would suppose these caskets have serial #s, registrations or a traceable something like that?

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mike_c

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Mon Jun-26-06 08:37 PM
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7. sleeps with coyotes....

Maybe someone did an Ed Abbey, although leaving the casket lying around is a bit tacky.

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MADem

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Mon Jun-26-06 08:54 PM
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10. I speculated in another thread that it was a PTT, not a casket

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1508557

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mike_c

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Mon Jun-26-06 08:59 PM
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11. yeah that was essentially what I was suggesting...

...the burial, I mean. They shoulda picked up after themselves though-- and does the Army actually release the PTTs or do funeral homes typically have to come collect their contents and leave the PTT behind?

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MADem

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Mon Jun-26-06 09:03 PM
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12. The PTT will go to the funeral parlor, where the director will do a

bit of this and that. The bodies are prepared in Dover, but sometimes the director will need to do a bit more after shipping. The funeral director will ship the casket back, at government expense.

I'm wondering if family members were able to sign for the casket at the airport, and did their own thing....

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lonestarnot

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Mon Jun-26-06 09:20 PM
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14. hmmmmm maybe they sold his/her body parts.

Edited on Mon Jun-26-06 09:20 PM by lonestarnot

and der ain't nutt'n left.

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