Thursday, April 11, 2013

Don't Fly Over Cemeteries

Our NYC correspondent informs us of this photo in The Gothamist.




Yes, that is a man wrapped in plastic as a passenger in an airplane.  Apparently, the man belongs to a branch of the Jewish religion which believes that you will become impure if you approach a dead body.  And dead bodies can be found in cemeteries over which a plane may fly. But his rabbi has found the solution we see above - "wrapping oneself in thick plastic bags while the plane crossed over the cemetery is permissible."

No comments: