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DONKEY: Funeral Home Sued After Family Discovers Wrong Body In Unc’s Casket · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to know how you came up with
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  Speaker 1: the donkey of.
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  Speaker 2: The day, because you mean today there's a bunch of donkeys.
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  Speaker 2: That is why Charlemagne to remember life where we light
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  Speaker 2: saying on the breakfast club. I'm the words of CHARLEMAGNEA god,
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  Speaker 2: he's a donkey. Ah Man, Charlamagne, you've given donkey the
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  Speaker 2: day to who Now, happy born day Bus to bus.
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  Speaker 2: Donkey of today for Tuesday made twentieth goes to the
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  Speaker 2: Harrison and Ross Mortuary in California. Now, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: I want to send condolences to Amantha Hunt and the
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  Speaker 2: family of eighty year old Oldest Atkinson. Okay, you know
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a funeral guy. Okay, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: my own funeral if I can help it, But I
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  Speaker 2: understand the process of the service. It is very important
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  Speaker 2: to lay your people to rest with class in dignity.
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  Speaker 2: But in order to do that, you need a mortuary
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  Speaker 2: that moves with class in dignity. That's the scary thing, right,
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  Speaker 2: you know how you know how I talk to you
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  Speaker 2: all about schools and how we drop our kids off
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  Speaker 2: the schools and trust these teachers with our precious seeds,
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  Speaker 2: our souls, outside of our bodies, our kids. It's the
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  Speaker 2: same thing with the mortuary. Okay, I know the spirit
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  Speaker 2: has left the body, but the body is still precious
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  Speaker 2: that your love doing. You want to make sure they
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  Speaker 2: are being treated correctly.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 2: The family of oldest Atkinson, they weren't treated correctly at all.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't treated with any respect by the Harrison Mortuary.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to CBS three for the report. Police, I
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  Speaker 2: don't look the rangement there to see the wrong body.
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  Speaker 1: When to meet the Hunts eighty year old uncle passed away.
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  Speaker 1: She chose Harrison Ross Mortuary to prepare him for burial,
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  Speaker 1: but when she went in to view his body, she says,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't him. It was a guy laying there and
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  Speaker 1: my uncle soup.
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  Speaker 2: But it wasn't my uncle.
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  Speaker 3: What did you take?
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  Speaker 1: I just kept looking at him.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I was just kept looking at him and kept looking
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  Speaker 1: him like what men He couldn't have got that dark.
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  Speaker 1: Hunt says she knew something was wrong and asked a
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  Speaker 1: worker at the mortuary for help.
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  Speaker 3: She was like, oh, yes, that's your ouklass.
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  Speaker 2: That's not my uncle.
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  Speaker 1: My uncle wouldn't have got that dark.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, here's a picture of him, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: show her a picture, and she was like, you're right,
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  Speaker 2: give us one minute. One minute.
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  Speaker 1: Hun says she and her family waited three hours while
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  Speaker 1: the mortuary fixed the mix up so they could finally
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  Speaker 1: bury her uncle. She still doesn't know whose body was
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  Speaker 1: dressed in his suit and has FOIULD a lawsuit against
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  Speaker 1: the mortuary over the whole ordeal. Her attorney calls the
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  Speaker 1: mortuary's actions outrageous for.
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  Speaker 3: Them to come in and see the wrong corpse and
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  Speaker 3: then for the mortuary to deny that it's the wrong corpse,
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  Speaker 3: and they need proof that it's in fact the right person.
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  Speaker 3: So we think it's really just the basic standard of
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  Speaker 3: care that they messed up on.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't nobody came to see you Otis? First of all,
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  Speaker 2: that's not even Otis, okay, And we did come to
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  Speaker 2: see him, but once again, that's not him. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know the race of the people who run this funeral home,
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  Speaker 2: but clearly they believe all black people look alike. And
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  Speaker 2: what really grinds my giars about this story is the
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  Speaker 2: fact that when I'm telling you it's not my uncle,
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  Speaker 2: do you try to tell me it is. Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: asked the simple I ask a simple question often. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is my question that I ask. What do people
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  Speaker 2: hate more in this era reading our accountability? I want
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  Speaker 2: you all to think about that for a second. What
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  Speaker 2: do people hate more reading our accountability? When the family
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  Speaker 2: asked the mortuary worker for help, the employee insisted that
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  Speaker 2: the stranger in the casket was indeed their uncle. And
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  Speaker 2: this is why sometimes you have to keep a lawyer
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  Speaker 2: on retainer, because every now and then violence is justified. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to explain to you this is in my uncle,
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  Speaker 2: but you insisting that it is, and you have the
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  Speaker 2: nerve to put this person I don't know in my
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  Speaker 2: uncle's suit. Now I gotta make you explain to me
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  Speaker 2: why we shouldn't squabble. Okay. I'm glad we already at
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  Speaker 2: the morgue because this was going to be your next
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  Speaker 2: stop anyway. All right, this level of gas lighting, people
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  Speaker 2: not being able to admit when they wrong, making two
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  Speaker 2: plus two equal five. You walk into the mortuary, see
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  Speaker 2: a strange man in the casket wearing your uncle suit.
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  Speaker 2: You tell the guy working at the morgue that's not
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  Speaker 2: my uncle, and they basically tell you, well, he's also dead,
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  Speaker 2: so it's essentially the same thing. That is the era
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  Speaker 2: we are in, folks. Okay, people just make false equivalencies
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  Speaker 2: all the time. The funeral Holmes response was basically, who
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  Speaker 2: are you gonna believe us? Are your own eyes? That
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  Speaker 2: is truly our corporate media landscape too. That's what they
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  Speaker 2: do to us every day. They tell the people believe us,
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  Speaker 2: not your own eyes. Imagine being in a funeral home
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  Speaker 2: and they say to you, we can't find your relative,
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  Speaker 2: but we do have someone about the same vibe. I
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  Speaker 2: guarantee you. They tried to blame this on death swelling.
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  Speaker 2: Death swelling will have you looking a little different. But
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  Speaker 2: we all know our people. Okay, how you gonna tell
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  Speaker 2: me that's not my uncle? The man was eighty. We
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  Speaker 2: know them our whole life. Sunday Dinners, fish fries, Dan CALLI.
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  Speaker 2: So they was playing Domino's. I know home team when
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  Speaker 2: I see it. This man in the casket looks like
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  Speaker 2: he plays for a rival team in a different sport.
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  Speaker 2: You can't just put a whole stranger in my uncle
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  Speaker 2: Steve Harvey suit and think we won't notice what in
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  Speaker 2: the Freaky Friday. Listen tomorrow of the story is in life,
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  Speaker 2: personal and business. You should be humble enough to see
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  Speaker 2: your mistakes, courageous enough to admit your mistakes, and wise
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  Speaker 2: enough to correct them. Harrison Ross Mortuary in California was
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  Speaker 2: none of those things. So please give them the sweet
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  Speaker 2: sounds of the Hamiltons. Oh no, you are the dog
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  Speaker 2: of the day, the dog all the day. Ye. And
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  Speaker 2: does the stranger that they had in Uncle Otis's suit?
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  Speaker 2: What about his family? Does his family know that they
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  Speaker 2: just had him in a whole other suit. That's what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. Who's looking for him? That's what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, man, it's the Yes, this is your uncle,
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  Speaker 2: this is him, that's him.
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  Speaker 3: And then she pulled the bitchalities on a one minute,
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  Speaker 3: one minute.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on, you figure this out, Jesus. All right, well,
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