Posted on 11/06/2009 5:28:06 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A Brazilian man who was thought to have been killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family when he turned up alive at his funeral.
Relatives of bricklayer Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a car crash on Sunday night, police said.
As is customary in Brazil, the funeral was held the following day.
What family members didn't know was that Goncalves had actually spent the night at a truck stop drinking a sugarcane liquor known as cachaca with friends.
He did not get word about his own funeral until it was already happening on Monday morning - at which point he rushed to the funeral to let family members know he was not as dead as they thought.
'The corpse was badly disfigured, but dressed in similar clothing,' said a police spokesman in the town of Santo Antonio da Platina, southern Brazil. 'People are afraid to look for very long when they identify bodies, and I think that is what happened in this case.'
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His name was Huck Finn.
cool trick. I’m not sure even Houdini could have pulled it off.
He was dead. But he got better.
So if he's not AS dead as they thought, is he only partly dead, or un-dead? How does this work?
Wow, that guy’s relatives couldn’t wait for him to be dead. They really really wanted him to be dead really really bad.
He should’ve shambled up to the mourners like a zombie, with his head cocked to cocked to one side and tongue hanging out for effect.
To ‘’aruanan’’ Yes, he was ‘’nearly departed’’. Just a little bit dead. And to Repeat Offender’’, “So if he’s not AS dead...’’ Well, he’s not-not dead.
The family of the dead guy are in for a sad surprise.
Family of the alive guy to the family of the dead guy: “we have some good news, and we have some bad news...”
Well I got it on good authority.... Whoopie Goldberg said he wasn't "dead-dead" and 0bama said the doctors acted "stupidly" and shouldn't have "jumped to conclusions."
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