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Hearse driver is fined for speeding after funeral
Rueters ^ | July 7, 2006 | Rueters

Posted on 07/21/2006 2:08:47 AM PDT by rawhide

DUBLIN, Ireland - An Irish hearse driver has been fined for speeding -- while leading a funeral cortege.

Police ordered undertaker John Carr to pay an $102 fine and gave him two penalty points for driving at 69 kilometers per hours (43 mph) in a 50 km/hr zone.

Several other vehicles in the cortege -- on its way to a funeral in County Donegal, northwest Ireland -- were also fined and their drivers threatened with prosecution if they did not pay.

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TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: funeral; hearse

1 posted on 07/21/2006 2:08:49 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Didn't the cops know it was Miller Time?


2 posted on 07/21/2006 2:15:12 AM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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To: rawhide

I always said that feller would be late for his own funeral...


3 posted on 07/21/2006 4:30:04 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Rugged individualists of the world, unite!)
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To: rawhide

I guess he was dying to get home.


4 posted on 07/21/2006 4:33:29 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.)
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To: rawhide

Trying to make it to the pub for the last round?


5 posted on 07/21/2006 4:46:27 AM PDT by llevrok (Born a ham and never cured.)
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To: rawhide
43 mph? Pulling a Hersh? I don't think so. Who calibrated the radar?

There is no way I want to be in a Hersh at full gallop at 43 miles an hour. It doesn't matter much whether I am alive or dead because there is no doubt that, whatever state I entered it, I will soon be the latter.


6 posted on 07/21/2006 6:11:36 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("I like to legislate. I feel I've done a lot of good." Sen. Robert Byrd)
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To: nathanbedford

When I volunteered for an EMS, we had a call for a Heart attack at the cemetry. The hearse driver had a caridac arrest. As we were doing CPR the furenal director asked us if we could go thru the drivers pockets because he had hit the auto locks with the casket still inside.
that kind of sucked.


7 posted on 07/23/2006 6:39:12 PM PDT by Yorlik803 ( When are we going to draw a line a say"this far and no farther")
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