Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - May 9, 2017

High school hijinks:

A New Jersey high school student (who's very much alive) arrived at her junior prom in an open casket.
17-year-old MEGAN FLAHERTY says she was just having fun when she showed up at the Pennsauken High School dance in a coffin, transported by a hearse. But, the student admits she does plan to become a funeral director after graduation. Photos and video of Flaherty's morbid entrance have been making the rounds online.
Some internet users called her antics tasteless and insensitive while others described her as "drop dead gorgeous." (Still)

Looking for love in all the wrong places:

The Post Office just became a lot more interesting in England. A bill just passed that may make people verify their age at the post office before they can access porn sites online. Users may be forced to use credit cards, cell numbers or hit up the post office to verify their age. And websites that don't follow the law are subject to a $250 thousand dollar fine. (Myers)

Diggin' History:

Experts estimate up to seven-thousand bodies are buried on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus. In a situation that sounds more like the set-up to a horror movie, USA Todaysays they are the bodies of Mississippi's first mental institution, called simply the Insane Asylum. It was built back in 1855, and underground radar shows their coffins stretch across 20 acres of the campus, where officials have wanted to build. But to do that, the medical center was faced with a $21-million dollar price tag --$3,000 to exhume and rebury each body.
The medical center is now studying the cheaper alternative of handling those exhumations in-house, at a cost of $400-thousand dollars a year for at least eight years. The plan also would create a memorial that would preserve the remains, with a visitors center and a lab that could be used to study the remains as well as the remnants of clothing and coffins. If approved, the lab would be the first of its kind in the nation --giving researchers insight into life in the asylum in the 1800s and early 1900s. (Bartha)