Traffic Chaos as Hearse Ejects Corpse - Democratic Underground

matcom

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Oct-29-03 10:03 AM
Original message

Traffic Chaos as Hearse Ejects Corpse

<snip>

BERLIN (Reuters) - A hearse overturned on a German motorway Wednesday, shattering the coffin and ejecting the corpse onto the tarmac along with a bag of coffin nails that brought traffic to a standstill, authorities said.

"The driver had fallen asleep at the wheel and yanked the steering wheel round when he woke up," said Jens O'Brien, spokesman for the regional government in Duesseldorf, western Germany.

"There were nails strewn over 50 meters and the corpse fell out onto the ground."

The A40 motorway was closed for an hour and there was a 4-mile back-up as police collected the coffin nails and took the corpse away.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=9&u=/nm/20031029/od_nm/hearse_dc

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

librechik

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Oct-29-03 10:08 AM
Response to Original message

1. as my husband says to me every 5 minutes or so

"This reminds me of the Bush administration"

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Padraig18

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Oct-29-03 11:16 AM
Response to Original message

2. I used to work for a funeral home

We had 2 'nightmare scenarios': an auto accident such as is described, and a structure fire that would burn the body. My former employer told the fire department explicitly to let the damned building burn to a cinder, but get the body out at all costs!

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Nihil

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Oct-29-03 11:34 AM
Response to Reply #2

3. "... and one for the road"

One presumes that you didn't do cremations then ... ? :evilgrin:

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

DU AdBot (1000+ posts)

Wed May 15th 2024, 08:17 AM
Response to Original message

Advertisements [?]

Top

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.