Hearse Driver Stops At Bar, Never Makes It to Cemetery

[Judi Lynn]

Hearse Driver Stops At Bar, Never Makes It to Cemetery
Caracas,
Wednesday
May 27,2009

BOGOTA – The hearse driver for a Bogota funeral home parked his vehicle, with a body inside, at a motel bar and went inside to drink beer, while the family of the deceased waited in vain at the cemetery, the local press reported.

Relatives of Tito Vasquez, who died on Saturday, as well as dozens of friends, waited for several hours on Sunday at the Campos de Cristo cemetery in suburban Bogota for the hearse to arrive so that they could bury him.

The body originally had been picked up by a hearse so that it could be taken to the funeral home to be embalmed and prepared for burial, and after that it was placed in the establishment’s viewing room, where friends and relatives paid their last respects.

“But neither Tito nor the vehicle nor the conductor arrived at the cemetery” for the burial, the daily El Tiempo reported.

Vasquez had no enemies during his life, his relatives said while they waited at the cemetery, and they could not understand why his body was not being delivered for the funeral.

In the face of the lack of an adequate answer from the funeral home – which apparently was just as mystified as to what had happened to the body – some of the relatives reported the body missing.

Police reported Sunday night that the Vasquez’s body was found in the hearse in the parking lot of a motel in Bogota’s San Bernardo neighborhood.

More:
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=335760&CategoryId=12393

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1. That Chavez!

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