Orthodox in a Bag

Religion can be pretty weird.
Think about Jim Jones and his Kool-Aid followers (I was tempted to make it sound like a band name, but they were too creepy to use it that way). But let's face it; people believe religious stuff, and it takes them to unusual places.
Look what happened to the Branch Davidians at Waco (and why are they "Branch" and not mainline?).
And who even wants to think about Mormons: Mitt Romney (shudder), I rest my case.
But if – in the interest of discussion – you were to think of religious practices that indicate "special" behaviors, what do you think would be at the top of the list?
How about putting yourself into a big plastic bag on an airplane?
If I can stop laughing, I will finish this... I swear it.
OK...

So here is the situation.
A guy is in a bag on an airplane (Yes... once again, it is a guy. Sometimes I feel SO embarrassed!). He is said to be an orthodox Jew.
He has put himself into a large plastic bag; this was not something done to him.
Why?
If you have already read about this, then you know, but if not, why do you think he is in the bag?
Here are the multiple choice options.

a) Orthodox Jews of his position are not allowed to be so close to women, so to protect him from their "cooties" he has put himself into a big baggie.
b) Orthodox Jews of his position are not allowed to fly over cemeteries as it makes them "impure", so to protect himself from the emissions of the cemeteries below, he has put himself into a big baggie.
c) Orthodox Jews of his position are actually not allowed to fly (like the Amish) but if they insulate themselves from the plane by putting themselves into a big baggie, they can fly.
d) He thought he could check himself as the bag of the guy sitting next to him, but the airline said he was "carry on".
e) This man is not an orthodox Jew of any special position but rather a nut. The airline people had him removed from the plane.

If you guessed (b), you win!
Apparently, he is a Kohen (resulting in English names like Cohen, Cahn, Conway, etc.) and as such they are forbidden to come into contact with the dead, even at 10,000 meters.
He is flying in an aluminum airplane, but that is not enough protection from the cemeteries below. You know how that cemetery radiation can be: 10,000 meters of air and a thick aluminum airplane fuselage are like vapor, but come up against a big Hefty bag? FULL STOP!
He also wears a yarmulke (rather than a tinfoil helmet), but that is not enough.
Clearly he needs to enclose himself in a big baggie.
Duh?
Sealing himself into the large Hefty bag renders him immune to any bad vibrations from cemeteries below.
Do you understand this?
Neither do I.
An alternative explanation is that being in a "hermetically sealed bag" on several flights, might have caused him to suffer from serious oxygen deprivation, rendering him "a nut" as in choice (e) above. So if you chose (e), you get the consolation prize!
Interestingly, these "priests" can defile themselves in many ways (such as marrying a prostitute), but if they later divorce the prostitute or stop their "bad-boy ways" they can be restored automatically to their special status as orthodox priests. How cool is that! Even Christians can't get away with stuff like that so easily.
I try to imagine his thinking, "Here I am, an important priest in my religion who is forbidden to be anywhere near a cemetery. I might fly over such a cemetery during this flight from Tel Aviv to Eilat where I need to go for my vacation (wink wink... thinking serious "bad boy" here!). So I have put myself into this big plastic bag to protect me from the emissions of ANY cemetery below. And NO, I don't want the in-flight meal, and DO NOT offend me with the inflight movie."
And here we thought only Christians and Muslims produced nutters.
Orthodox Jew nutter to go, anyone?