Posted on 07/13/2005 12:30:05 PM PDT by QwertyKPH
The body of a man being transported to Shreveport, Louisiana fell from the back of a hearse and onto a busy Dallas freeway Tuesday. Dallas television station KTVT obtained photographs from the scene showing a gurney on its side and the man's body partially uncovered. A police report from the Dallas Police Department indicates someone called police saying they had just spotted a body on a gurney with a blanket over it lying in the middle of State Highway 175.
The investigating officer says he was met at the scene by two witnesses who saw the gurney fall onto the freeway. The officer says the man an SUV-style hearse stated the back door to his vehicle came open and the man's body fell out of the back. When he realized what had happened, the man returned to the scene to retrieve the body. Authorities say the body was being transported to a Shreveport funeral home after the man died Monday at a hospital in Mesquite, Texas.
No - I'm wrong....it's a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
I want a cigar too. It's our day!!
Can you imagine the insurance claim. "Well, I was driving down the highway, minding my business, when this dead guy comes flying out of the car in front of me."
What do I get on my special day?
;-?
The poor stiff didn't even get to ride in a Fourrunner. That's sad.
September 19th? An eye patch and a parrot.
or was it was it april 26th. (flowers)
I can't keep your special days straight. ;o)
Stranger than the van's doors
flying open.....caskets are
suppose to be locked prior
to transport & buriel.
Most caskets today have a
crank that fits into one
end of the casket & locks
the lid into place.
[I wonder if the deceased
would have found this
accident humorous? LOL!]
Talk Like A Pirate Day
or
World Intellectual Property Day?
Aaargh you wench, fetch me my rum.....
secretaries day. LOL
How about Lovers of Life International Day?
Stranger than the van's doors
flying open.....caskets are
suppose to be locked prior
to transport & buriel.
I think Splash your Friend in a Mud Puddle day is more you! ;o)
Valid point....
ping
my bad......slap me down!
In the photo, it appears that's
a casket on the pavement.
No slap... just trying to stay informed and thought that maybe a new requirement was in place regarding transport.
This cracked my grandma up for some reason.
Not only the coffin, but the subsequent CONGESTION....
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