Posted on 05/15/2013 10:26:33 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
GWERU, Zimbabwe, May 15 (UPI) -- A man in Zimbabwe said he is feeling "OK now" after mourners at his funeral noticed his legs twitching and had him rushed to a hospital.
Brighton Dama Zanthe, 34, was declared dead at his home after a long illness, but he was rushed to Gweru Provincial Hospital when mourners at his funeral Monday noticed his legs were still moving, The Daily Telegraph, Britain, reported Wednesday.
Zanthe said told Zimbabwean newspaper The Chronicle he does not remember his apparent death or the ensuing funeral. He said the first thing he can remember after being at his home is waking up at the hospital.
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Oh my Lord, I think I’d have run for the hills if I saw a “body” twitching in it’s coffin. I’m glad he made it.
This is the second mostly dead thread today. Beware the zombies.
When I was a kid i watched an episode of ‘The Alfred Hitchcock Hour’ and the episode called ‘The Final Escape’ took place in a prison where a convict planned an elaborate escape. The prisoner sets up an escape plot with the prison gravedigger, an old alcoholic, planning to hide in the coffin of the next prisoner who died, get carted out to the cemetery, and then the gravedigger would return at night to dig him up. When the death toll is sounded, the escaper climbs into the coffin, is buried, and awaits the gravedigger. Finally, after waiting a very long time in the dark, the escaper lights a match — to see that the “next prisoner who died” was in fact...the gravedigger.
Got a chainsaw I can borrow?
That bad attitude will get you nowhere, young man. ;^)
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Thank you!
However, I am not especially young and my husband will attest that I am annoyingly female.
Lol!!!
LOL...Monthy Python...first thing I thought of while reading the headline.
Ummm...I’ll get back to you.
;^)
It's probably not a coincidence that private healthcare is interested in saving patients so that they can pay and come for more, but socialized healthcare is interested in killing patients because they cost more money to treat than they contribute. Once the HMO has your money, under the threat of prison time, why should they treat you?
“Bring out your dead!’’.”I’m not dead yet’’.
‘Ee’s pinin’ for the fjords.
He heard the music and his legs started moving!
Last thing he remembers was someone saying “Get down!”.
Thanks for freaking us out!
Good News: Mr Zanthe is still alive
Bad News: His funeral expenses are Z$50 trillion
So, about US $20, then?
That is true. Somehow it touched off a memory of what was done in the Middle Ages when there was no use of formaldehyde. Then, they put a string next to the body inside the coffin and attached the string to a bell on top of the grave. A person was assigned to stay at the grave site and listen. If the person was not dead he or she would pull on the string and the grave would be immediately excavated.
This practice is associated with an English phrase but I forget it (I forget a lot in my old age). Does anyone remember it?
OP, there are a couple of phrases, but some authorities dispute them:
“saved by the bell”
“dead ringer”
“graveyard shift”
He’ll have to cut back on those puffer fish fillets.
You stunned him just as he was wakin’ up!
They were in the same coffin?
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