Corpse Falls Into Traffic in Texas

[ulysses]

DALLAS — The body of a Louisiana man strapped to a gurney fell from the back of a pickup truck Tuesday onto a south Dallas highway and into the path of oncoming traffic. "I didn't think it was possible for that to happen," said Mary Ellen Douglas, who was driving to work when she saw what she initially thought was a package that had fallen from a truck.

"I wanted to get out of there. It was too freaky for me," she said in a story in Wednesday's editions of The Dallas Morning News.

Authorities said the driver was carrying the body to a Shreveport, La., funeral home after the man died Monday at a Mesquite hospital.

"The driver of the truck was not aware that he had lost the body," Dallas police Lt. Rick Andrews said. "He saw the open door. He stopped and looked. He turned around, went back and retraced his steps and found the body."

http://www.accessatlanta.com/entertainment/content/shared-gen/ap/Feature_Stories/Corpse_in_Road.html

just 'cause matcom may not be up yet...:)

[AuntieM1957]

1. Only in Texas (sigh)

Lt Andrews, how could the driver trace his steps? Was he walking the corpse? If so, damn that's really, really strange.

Occurs to me that it's good that we finally got that all important tort reform legislation here in Texas - couldn't have anyone hoping to get rich quick off this.

Without it, some liberal wing-nut might actually want to sue the poor funeral home mega-corporation for their employee's reckless "walking" of their loved one's body through the Dallas freeway system.

[matcom]

2. excellent

:thumbsup:

[ulysses]

3. hope you don't mind.

:hi:

[matcom]

4. not at all

wouldn't mind another cup of coffee though :hangover: :hi:

[ulysses]

5. *warms up sludge in bottom of french press*

This'll have you seeing through walls. ;-)

[jus_the_facts]

6. not funny...seein' how we just got my dad's *ashes* the other day...

....took over two weeks for them to get them to us. :(

[ulysses]

7. I'm sorry, hon.

Didn't mean any insensitivity. How are you holding up? :hug:

[jus_the_facts]

8. I'm here....today woulda been his 65th birthday......

....just still too surreal to believe he's gone s'all and I hate the world more every day that goes by. :hug: :cry:

[ulysses]

9. oh, man.

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