Posted on 12/06/2017 10:23:54 AM PST by Gamecock
MACOMB COUNTY (WWJ) The headline is a scorcher — It claims a Macomb County morgue employee was accidentally cremated when he took a nap and was mistaken for the dead.
Phone lines lit up Wednesday at the Macomb County Medical Examiner’s Office and the prosecutor’s office. People had questions, lots and lots of questions.
But there was only one answer: It’s fake news. Literally fake. Not a grain of truth.
“We don’t do cremations here at all … and nobody who works here has been cremated,” said Denise Calhoun, a Macomb Medical Examiner office worker.
“Why would they write this? I just wish someone had better things to do with their time.”
The report is on a website with an abc news graphic and URL, and it’s written by a man identified as David Foster. Close observers will see the website URL for the story has -us.com at the end, which is different than the actual abcnews.go.com site.
An email to the real ABC News seeking comment was not immediately returned.
The fake story was circulating on Facebook. It said 48-year old Henri Paul Johnson decided to take a nap on a stretcher after working for sixteen hours straight.
“While he was sleeping, another employee mistook him for the corpse of a 52-year old car accident victim and carried him to the crematory. Ms. Davis claims that the young coworker who caused the accident was a new employee, and had forgotten to check for the toe tag to make sure he had the right body.”
The report says criminal charges are being considered.
ABC ?
I thought Brian Ross got suspended..
I know someone named David Foster who lives in Macomb County. He’s just stupid enough to have done something like this and attached his real name to it.
If he didn’t do it, he certainly would believe it.
LOL!....................
Brilliant. If I was running away from the law...
No, the teeth would be a ‘dead giveaway’.................pun intended..........
“Debunked” is a word that has become meaningless.
Pizzagate was “debunked”—IF by “Pizzagate” you mean the claim that John Podesta and Hillary were molesting children in the basement of Comet Ping Pong.
Questions about a certain Tuesday have been “debunked,” as well.
Being cremated while still alive? That’d ruin your whole day.
Once again, Trump was right.
And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar;
And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and said: “Please close that door.
It’s fine in here, but I greatly fear, you’ll let in the cold and storm —
Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it’s the first time I’ve been warm.”
OTOH, those two fine upstanding patrons of Comet Pizza you mentioned could been having pizza parties in the basement with kids.
David Spade had a punk’d video on this.
“County Morgue. You stab ‘em, we slab ‘em. How may I direct your call?”
This story has all the hallmarks of a classic “urban legend.”
I suspect it may be making the rounds for a long time, in a lot of localities.
Yeah. But how many times did ABC pick it up?
It’s not debunked. It’s totally bunk.
Wait.
“He said he’s not dead yet. Yes he is.” Monty Python
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