Veteran’s Funeral Drive Detoured By Hearse Drivers To Dunkin' Donuts

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 05.13.2015 | AP via Yahoo!

[dware]

Two Florida hearse drivers have been fired after they stopped at a doughnut shop with a flag-draped coffin in the vehicle on the way to a funeral and an outraged man sent a video to a local veterans group.

Rob Carpenter spotted the hearse in the parking lot of a New Port Richey Dunkin’ Donuts on Tuesday with its curtains open and the coffin visible.

In the coffin was the body of 84-year-old Lt. Col. Jesse Coleman, a decorated soldier who served in Korea and Vietnam. The hearse was transporting him from Clearwater’s Veteran’s Funeral Care to his funeral.

[dware]

Ignorant & disrespectful. The drivers belong in the unemployment line.

[sparklite2]

Jeez, it’s not like it was a funeral procession. Now, that would be something to see pulling into donut shop.

[lee martell]

Wow. Couldn’t they have waited another forty minutes?
Remember, nowadays, the moment you step out side of your door, you stand a good chance of being photographed or filmed by a person or a fixed camera. That’s how things are today.

[doorgunner69]

Off duty cops?

[centurion316]

Colonel Coleman did not register a complaint. “Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em” was heard from his general direction.

[South40]

Coach drivers (we don't call them hearses) aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.

I have attended over 100 military funerals and while I have not seen a driver stop at a donut shop I have seen equally stupid behavior. Smarter people can be found working behind the counter at 7-11.

[Pollster1]

I knew a guy who requested that stop - every car in the procession got a donut from the drive through. Without a specific request though, it’s inexcusable.

[Mears]

Not funny!

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[cherokee1]

Can’t tell from here how long that trip was but out West it might have been a few hundred miles. A donut break might have been warranted. but-—hey doofusses-—at least close the curtains.

[Politicalkiddo]

Idiots.

[Arthur McGowan]

They should sue the sanctimonious busybody with the camera and the big mouth, and the funeral home.

[tumblindice]

"Honor is a gift a man gives himself." Robert R. McGregor

[Jolla]

LOL, my sister worked for years in the funeral business, disrespect is not a word they know. Not sure the drivers should be fired because they stopped to eat.

[Jolla]

That photo is proof that San Francisco was in decline a long time ago. That is the intersection of Montgomery/Market/New Montgomery. Just across the street is the Palace Hotel where I first met my wife.

[Mercat]

Gotta have their dunks.

[Buckeye McFrog]

These guys?

[Flick Lives]

Order to go

[M Kehoe]

My guess is that none of the employees were Vets.

Sheesh.

5.56mm

[AlaskaErik]

If that wasn’t bad enough, the hearse took up two parking spaces.

[vetvetdoug]

As a member of an Honor Guard with a funeral, we were requested by the widow to take the veteran to his favourite bar in New Orleans where the people there could toast him. We carried the casket in, set it on the floor, the people were waiting on him and drank a toast to him where we picked him up and replaced him into the hearse where we went on to the Military funeral in New Orleans. One of the most memorable events I had as a member of an Honor Guard.