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Right Casket, Wrong Body
Posted by: WashingTone-Locian ()
Date: August 20, 2009 06:49AM

This is unintentionally funny. A funeral home had an open casket with the wrong body in it...

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20090819_Beloved_husband___dad_is_mourned__but_it_s_not_his_body_in_the_casket.html

Here are some of my favorite lines...

Horrified relatives burst into tears in the conference room. One of Roberts' daughters yelled, "Go get my father!" A grandchild screamed, "Where's Pop Pop?"

Keith Harris, 19, had a seizure and was rushed to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. An unidentified woman had an asthma attack and was also taken to a hospital, Wearing said.


Meantime, the funeral home found Roberts' remains, and rushed them back to the church. When an assistant opened the door of the hearse, mortified relatives screamed at the sight.

"The casket had tilted and his leg was hanging out," said Wearing, who believed they drove so fast, hitting bumps, that the casket opened.


It's like a Chevy Chase movie from the 80s.

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Re: Right Casket, Wrong Body
Posted by: Vince(1) ()
Date: August 20, 2009 08:48AM

Who cares...why would anyone care unless its a family member in one of the caskets?

Registered Voter...a Big talking coward..big man on FFXU...little man in life.

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Re: Right Casket, Wrong Body
Posted by: cremudgen ()
Date: August 20, 2009 10:19AM

boring and old story. post better threads please.

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Re: Right Casket, Wrong Body
Posted by: BagODonuts ()
Date: August 20, 2009 11:17AM

Good for a chuckle WTL..

Great line from the funeral home "That's how they look when they die." Such a cold response, love it.

Too bad they hadn't switched the body with someone who was supposed to have a closed casket.

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Re: Right Casket, Wrong Body
Posted by: Melissa ()
Date: August 20, 2009 12:25PM

That's amusing.

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Being vague is almost as fun as that other thing.

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Re: Right Casket, Wrong Body
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: August 20, 2009 12:40PM

I smell a lawsuit about to happen....is it that traumatic to have the wrong person in a casket? I can understand being livid, but an asthma attack and a seizure, come on.

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Re: Right Casket, Wrong Body
Posted by: Melissa ()
Date: August 20, 2009 12:42PM

Oh, the seizure is purely coincidental. Unless they had a strobe show for the dearly departed....

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Re: Right Casket, Wrong Body
Posted by: Gravis ()
Date: August 20, 2009 01:58PM

Melissa Wrote:
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> Oh, the seizure is purely coincidental. Unless
> they had a strobe show for the dearly departed....

actually, no. stress can invoke seizures.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."095042938540

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Re: Right Casket, Wrong Body
Posted by: Registered Voter ()
Date: August 20, 2009 02:43PM

Imagine if it had been a cremation...........

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