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."
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."
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."
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