Traffic Chaos as Hearse Ejects Corpse

[matcom]

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A hearse overturned on a German motorway Wednesday, shattering the coffin and ejecting the corpse onto the tarmac along with a bag of coffin nails that brought traffic to a standstill, authorities said.

"The driver had fallen asleep at the wheel and yanked the steering wheel round when he woke up," said Jens O'Brien, spokesman for the regional government in Duesseldorf, western Germany.


"There were nails strewn over 50 meters and the corpse fell out onto the ground."


The A40 motorway was closed for an hour and there was a 4-mile back-up as police collected the coffin nails and took the corpse away.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=9&u=/nm/20031029/od_nm/hearse_dc

[librechik]

1. as my husband says to me every 5 minutes or so

"This reminds me of the Bush administration"

[Padraig18]

2. I used to work for a funeral home

We had 2 'nightmare scenarios': an auto accident such as is described, and a structure fire that would burn the body. My former employer told the fire department explicitly to let the damned building burn to a cinder, but get the body out at all costs!

[Nihil]

3. "... and one for the road"

One presumes that you didn't do cremations then ... ? :evilgrin: