Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Wrong number?

I worked as a pizza deliveryman when I was in college. I wasn't a very good one. Occasionally, I would knock on the wrong door. I never, however, made a mistake as gruesome as this one:



"Friends of a dead Long Island man whose amputated leg was accidentally sent home to the family of another man who died at the same hospital were stunned and disgusted yesterday by the screwup.

'How the hell does that happen?' asked Paul LaGrasse, who worked with Jim Jordan as a guard at the Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead.

Jordan of Calverton, was 82 when he died Jan. 13 at Central Suffolk Hospital in Riverhead. A diabetic, his leg was amputated as doctors tried to save him, cops said.

But how the limb ended up being sent home to the survivors of Paul Runyan was still unclear yesterday."

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