People bring some interesting items home from vacation, but a dead baby has to be one of the most bizarre. Staff at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat airport were understandably shaken when they discovered just that in the luggage of a Vietnamese passenger.
This strange news story is actually quiet tragic. The Thanh Nien newspaper reports that 36-year-old Vu Van Tho was trying to take his dead son’s body home for burial. The baby boy died when his mother gave birth prematurely.
According to Vietnamese custom, a dead body can only rest peacefully if it is returned to its native homeland.
At least the father didn’t wait 11 years to take his baby home like the elderly sister in Munich did!
I can respect the tradition, but I’m not sure I could stash a body amongst my pajamas and underwear. I also can’t help wondering about that lingering corpse smell!
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