'You could smell the death': Bodies found stored in U-Haul trucks outside Brooklyn funeral home

[RandySF]

A Brooklyn funeral home stacked at least 15 dead bodies in U-Haul trucks and other vehicles parked on the street, police sources said Wednesday — a grisly scene that has horrified neighbors.

The NYPD, along with several city and state agencies, descended on the morbid scene outside the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home on Utica Ave. and Ave. M in Flatlands.

Outside, they found two U-Haul box trucks, a U-Haul van, an unmarked 30-foot box truck, and an unmoored tractor trailer.

The two unmarked vehicles were refrigerated, but police sources and witnesses said they saw bodies stacked in the U-Haul trucks as well.


https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-bodies-trucks-brooklyn-funeral-home-20200429-a5hdwbawx5gj7padxbr427vt7i-story.html

[In_The_Wind]

1. So sad.

[sheshe2]

2. Trump offers them no dignity in death.

[Caliman73]

3. The worst smell ever! Poor people, and their loved ones. The indignity.

My job has exposed me to so many horrible situations, sights, and smells. I have seen hoards, smelled rotten food, feces and urine (human and animal), cigarette smoke and body odor in enclosed dwellings with the heater on to 80 degrees and more where it is so stifling that you might pass out. Typically I am not affected by it and can carry out my job duties. Rotting human flesh however, has been the only thing I have experienced that has taken me out of work. Made me physically ill.

This is Jared Kushner's and Trump's idea of "success".

[kimbutgar]

6. The worst smell is the smell of death

My neighbor died on a Tuesday and her friend couldn’t get a hold of her. So we went into her house on a Thursday and found her passed on the smell was so awful. I will never forget. When We found her the sight is one I never want to see again.

[brer cat]

4. Horrific.

The families will be devastated that their loved ones were treated so callously.

[mwooldri]

5. In a U-Haul? They're not refrigerated.

If things are that dire, there's enough reefers out there to act as temporary storage. Still grisly but much better than baking in a U-Haul.

[Marrah_Goodman]

7. When you have an extra 800 people a day dying these are the things that will end up happening

Horrible, just horrible for those families.