It’s Rouge All Right
A passerby noticed something straight out of a horror film behind a mortuary in Baton Rouge, La.: apparent blood seeping out of the ground and flowing into the gutter. City officials said the leak at the Greenoaks Funeral Home was indeed blood, mixed with embalming fluid, and was seeping from a storage tank. A spokeswoman for the National Funeral Director’s Association assured the public such a leak could not be dangerous, since the chemicals in embalming fluid “inactivate those germs and pathogens.” Still, the city plans to do something about it. “We’ve been really concentrating on restaurants lately, so we haven’t been looking into the funeral homes,” admitted Baton Rouge Department of Environmental Services spokesman Adam Smith. “But we’re going to go ahead and get them signed up for a permit tomorrow.” (RC/WBRZ Baton Rouge) ...So much bureaucracy! Who knew a permit was necessary to store human blood in backyard tanks?Original Publication Date: 01 October 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
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