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DONKEY: Funeral Home Sued After Family Discovers Wrong Body In Unc’s Casket
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Michael Kasin
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Each week you'll hear women triumph over adversity. You'll meet Tracey, who survived a terrify attack. I remember that feeling of okay, this is how I die and turn that darkness into light. I want to take over the world and just leave this place better than I found it. So come and join our girl gang. Listen to the Girlfriend Spotlight on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I just wanted to know how you came up with the don't be in a date because you're mean. I am. There's a bunch of donkeys out here in the street. That is why Charlemagne is here. If we live a life where we Bite our tongue. Based off who we may have been, we never would say anything on the Breakfast Club. In the words of Charlemagne, the God, he's a donkey. Oh, man. Charlamagne, you giving donkey today? To who now? Happy Born Day. Bust the bus. Donkey of the day for Tuesday, May 20th goes to the the Harrison Ross Mortuary in California. Now, first of all, I want to send condolences to Aminta Hunt and The family of 80 year old Otis Atkinson. Okay? You know, I'm not a funeral guy, okay? I'm not going to my own funeral if I can help it. But I understand the process of the service. It is very important to lay your people to rest with class and dignity. But in order to do that, you need a mortuary that moves with class and dignity. That's the scary thing, right? You know how, you know how I talk to you all about schools and how we drop our kids off to schools and trust these teachers with our precious seeds, our souls outside of our bodies, our kids? It's the same thing with a mortuary. Okay? I know the spirit has left the body, but the body is still precious. That's your loved one. You want to make sure they are being treated correctly. Well, the family of Otis Atkinson, he. They weren't treated correctly at all. They weren't treated with any respect by the Harrison Mortuary. Let's go to CBS3 for the report, please. I didn't make an arrangement there to see the wrong body. When Amita Hunt's 80 year old uncle passed away, she chose Harrison Ross Mortuary to prepare him for burial. But when she went to view his body, she says it wasn't him. It was a guy laying there in my uncle's suit. But it wasn't my uncle. What did you think? I just kept looking at him. I didn't know. I just kept looking at him and kept looking. I'm like, wait a minute. He couldn't have got that dark. Hunt says she knew something was wrong and asked a worker at the mortuary for help. She was like, no. Yes, that's your uncle. I said, that's not my uncle. My uncle wouldn't have got that dark. And I said, here's a picture of him. And I showed her a picture and she was like, you're right. Give us one minute. One minute. Hunt says she and her family waited three hours while the mortuary fixed the mix up so they could finally bury her uncle. She still doesn't know whose body was dressed in his suit and has filed a lawsuit against the mortuary over the whole ordeal. Her attorney calls the mortuary's actions outrageous. For them to come in and see the wrong corpse and then for the mortuary to deny that it's the wrong corpse and then need proof that they that it's in fact the right person. So we think it's a really just a basic standard of care that they messed up on. Ain't nobody came to see you, Otis. First of all, that's not even Otis, okay? And we did come to see him, but once again, that's not him. I don't know the race of the people who run this funeral home, but clearly they believe all black people look alike. And what really grinds my gears about this story is the fact that when I'm telling you this, not my uncle, you trying to tell me it is. Okay, I asked a simple. I ask a simple question often. Okay, this is my question that I ask. What do people hate more in this era? Reading or accountability? I want you all to think about that for a second. What do people hate more? Reading or accountability? When the family asked the mortuary worker for help, the employee insisted that the stranger in the casket was indeed their uncle. And this is why sometimes you have to keep a lawyer on retainer. Because every now and then violence is justified. Okay, I'm trying to explain to you this isn't my uncle, but you insisting that it is and you had the nerve to put this person, I don't know in my uncle's suit. Now I gotta make you explain to me why we shouldn't squabble, okay? I'm glad we already at the morgue because this was gonna be your next stop anyway. All right? This level of gaslighting, people not being able to admit when they wrong, making two plus two equal five. You walk into the mortuary, see a strange man in the caske wearing your uncle's suit. You tell the guy working at the morgue that's not my uncle. And they basically tell you, well, he's also dead. So it's essentially the same thing. That is the era we are in, folks, okay? People just make false equivalencies all the time. The funeral home's response was basically, who are you going to believe? Us are your own eyes. That is truly our corporate media landscape too. That's what they do to us every day. They tell the people believe us, not your own eyes. Imagine being in a funeral home and they say to you, we can't find your relative, but we do have someone about the same vibe. I guarantee you they tried to blame this on death swelling. Deaf swelling will have you looking a little different. But we all know our people. Okay, how you gonna tell me that's not my uncle? The man was 80. We know him our whole life. Sunday dinners, fish fries, day in Cali. So they was playing dominoes. I know home team when I see it. This man in the casket looks like he plays for a rival team in a different sport. You can't just put a whole stranger in my Uncle Steve Harvey suit and think we won't notice. What in the Freaky Friday? Listen, the moral of the story is, in life, personal and business, you should be humble enough to see your mistakes, courageous enough to admit your mistakes, and wise enough to correct them. Harrison Ross Mortuary in California was none of those things. So please give them the sweet sounds of the Hamiltones. Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. And does the stranger that they had in Uncle Otis's suit. What about his family? Does his family know that they just had him in a whole other suit? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Who looking for him? That's what I mean. Come on, man. It's the. Yes, this is your uncle. This is him. That's him. And then she pulled the out and he's. Oh, no. One minute, one minute. Hold on. You fixed this. Crazy. Jesus. All right, well, thank you for that donkey today. 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