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Hearse driver sacked for losing coffin
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| 8/18/03
Posted on 08/18/2003 7:18:27 AM PDT by martin_fierro
A Dutch funeral director has sacked a hearse driver for losing a coffin on the way to a funeral.
The driver was on his way to a cemetery in Amsterdam when the back door of his hearse suddenly opened and the coffin fell out.
The driver did not notice anything amiss and he carried on to the cemetery, leaving the coffin in the middle of the road, reports Het Parool.
A bus that was following the hearse pulled up and the driver stopped to pick up the coffin - but not before the incident was spotted by a rival undertaker who phoned the hearse driver's boss.
"I thought he made a joke," said hearse driver Lucien Van Wijngaarden. "But when I went back I saw it was indeed my coffin."
Mr Van Wijngaarden was sacked by his company, PC Uitvaartvaartzorg, for failing to show sufficient respect for the dead.
TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: coffin; hearse; lost; oops
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posted on
08/18/2003 7:20:38 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: martin_fierro
the incident was spotted by a rival undertaker who phoned the hearse driver's boss. cutthroat business, is undertaking.....
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posted on
08/18/2003 7:22:30 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: martin_fierro
Swine Coffin!"
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posted on
08/18/2003 7:24:27 AM PDT
by
bedolido
(None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
To: xsmommy
Things went from bad to hearse.
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posted on
08/18/2003 7:37:51 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: martin_fierro
i bet the driver croaked when he realized he'd lost the thing.
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posted on
08/18/2003 7:42:03 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: martin_fierro
..... PC Uitvaartvaartzorg, for failing to show sufficient respect for the dead.Rodney Dangerfield's last joke?
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posted on
08/18/2003 7:44:06 AM PDT
by
JoeSixPack1
(POW/MIA - Bring 'em home, or send us back! Semper Fi)
To: martin_fierro
This sounds like something out of The Onion.
To: martin_fierro
As long as it was no body I knew.
To: Chad Fairbanks
This thread would be incomplete without your contribution.
PING!
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:48:04 AM PDT
by
DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
(“I think your life expectancy was about 20 seconds." - Lloyd Keeland, USMC, veteran of Iwo Jima)
To: xsmommy; martin_fierro
That's the part that caught my eye, too. LOL
What are the odds that a "rival undertaker" would happen to be on the scene to see it all go down? He probably just scouts out areas where a bunch of cars are driving with their headlights on, waiting for something like this. What a score!
And think of the potential copy for his print and radio ads now! "Are you stressed over making funeral arrangements? Worried that your loved one's coffin will fall out of the hearse?"
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:55:21 AM PDT
by
DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
(“I think your life expectancy was about 20 seconds." - Lloyd Keeland, USMC, veteran of Iwo Jima)
To: martin_fierro
A bus that was following the hearse pulled up and the driver stopped to pick up the coffin. . . . So it was totally unrehearsed?
To: Charles Henrickson
The hack was sacked!
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posted on
08/18/2003 11:06:52 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: martin_fierro
Of corpse he is. I mean, you make a grave mistake lie this, and you are only digging your own errr ummmm grave...
Man, that pun was so bad, I'm having a coffin fit...
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posted on
08/18/2003 12:20:57 PM PDT
by
Chad Fairbanks
(The wages of sin are death, but by the time FICA and SSI are taken, it's just sorta tired feeling)
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