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Woman Tosses Urns at Man Robbing Funeral Home
KSL ^ | October 8th, 2010

Posted on 10/10/2010 6:09:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A Morristown funeral home owner said his daughter drove off an armed man during a robbery of the family business by throwing empty urns at his head. Police said 32-year-old Teresa Mayes was opening Mayes Family Services on Friday morning and found a man armed with a knife waiting for her.

Her father, Buddy Mayes, told The Knoxville News Sentinel that the robber demanded money and she responded by throwing urns from a display. He said one of them obviously landed because the urn was smashed.

The man got away with some cash, but his daughter was not injured.

Mayes said the man may not have realized it was a funeral home, saying "a robbery is a little unusual for us."


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1 posted on 10/10/2010 6:09:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder if any were Grecian urns?


2 posted on 10/10/2010 6:12:49 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: nickcarraway

If you rob a funeral home....you urn a broken head.


3 posted on 10/10/2010 6:14:54 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (The liberal mantra: Never enough.)
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To: Winstons Julia

If you rob a funeral home, you must be a real ash...


4 posted on 10/10/2010 6:16:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

For the thief, it was a futile undertaking...


5 posted on 10/10/2010 6:20:33 PM PDT by mikrofon (A penny saved is a robber urned.)
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To: nickcarraway; mikrofon; martin_fierro

He got away with some hard-urned cash.


6 posted on 10/10/2010 6:21:57 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: nickcarraway

Bury funny.


7 posted on 10/10/2010 6:29:23 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (The liberal mantra: Never enough.)
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To: nickcarraway

It seems like Knoxville is becoming more and more dangerous.


8 posted on 10/10/2010 6:50:37 PM PDT by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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To: nickcarraway

Stick to the graveyard robbing. The occupants never fight back but don’t try it on election day when they get up to vote for Dems.


9 posted on 10/10/2010 7:21:42 PM PDT by tflabo
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To: nickcarraway

There’s gotta be a stiff joke in there somewhere...


10 posted on 10/10/2010 7:25:47 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: nickcarraway

Amazing, a whole hour and no one said “Never bring a knife to an urn fight.”


11 posted on 10/10/2010 7:33:06 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: nickcarraway

These puns are killing me.


12 posted on 10/10/2010 7:38:47 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany.")
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To: nickcarraway

I hope none broke in half - that could be splittin heirs.

And I’ll bet she backed him right into a coroner, all the while screaming “#$@% you and the hearse you rode in on!”

(Did they say if it was afternoon or mourning?)


13 posted on 10/10/2010 8:12:13 PM PDT by MV=PY
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To: Stonewall Jackson

I’m laughing so hard I’m coffin.


14 posted on 10/10/2010 9:27:10 PM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
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To: nickcarraway

I hope this isn’t the ushering in of a new era.


15 posted on 10/10/2010 9:32:39 PM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
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To: nickcarraway

Please let one of the guys in the urns have been a cop in life....


16 posted on 10/10/2010 9:38:00 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...

Seems like a trenchant response to a grave situation.


17 posted on 10/11/2010 6:45:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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