Florida had the door-to-door OBGYN-impersonator last week, and not to be out-done, Germany brings us....
Woman nabbed driving corpse across country
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 53-year-old German woman who was driving her dead mother across country to save on mortuary transportation costs was fined by police for disturbing a dead person's peace.
"You're not allowed to transport dead people in your private car," said Ralf Schomisch, police spokesman in Koblenz, where the car was found after a tip-off from a mortuary.
"The corpse was on the back seat without a seat belt, which in this case didn't really matter. But it was covered up with clothing. It is a misdemeanour."
He said the woman, who was not identified, was charged with violating burial laws and disturbing a dead person's peace. She would face a modest fine, Schomisch said.
The woman had already driven 450 km (280 miles) after picking up the body from a mortuary in the northern city of Bremerhaven. She wanted to bury her mother, who died of natural causes aged 90, in her hometown Daun.
SwiperNoSwiping wrote:"Disturbing a dead person's peace"...
Exactly my thought. The body is the "clothing" of the soul. I could care less if someone kicks my shirt across the floor after I take it off.
It's just a shirt.
This is just the German government protecting the lucrative corpse-transportation industry. If it was legal to transport bodies by yourself, the fat-cat politicians wouldn't get to go out to the annual Dead Passengers Ball (thrown by the powerful corpse-transportation lobby).
I am all for capitalism, but it is wrong for the government to wh0re itself out to the highest bidder like this.
SwiperNoSwiping wrote:"Disturbing a dead person's peace"...
Exactly my thought. The body is the "clothing" of the soul. I could care less if someone kicks my shirt across the floor after I take it off.
It's just a shirt.
This is just the German government protecting the lucrative corpse-transportation industry. If it was legal to transport bodies by yourself, the fat-cat politicians wouldn't get to go out to the annual Dead Passengers Ball (thrown by the powerful corpse-transportation lobby).
I am all for capitalism, but it is wrong for the government to wh0re itself out to the highest bidder like this.
LMAO
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SwiperNoSwiping wrote:"Disturbing a dead person's peace"...
Exactly my thought. The body is the "clothing" of the soul. I could care less if someone kicks my shirt across the floor after I take it off.
It's just a shirt.
This is just the German government protecting the lucrative corpse-transportation industry. If it was legal to transport bodies by yourself, the fat-cat politicians wouldn't get to go out to the annual Dead Passengers Ball (thrown by the powerful corpse-transportation lobby).
I am all for capitalism, but it is wrong for the government to wh0re itself out to the highest bidder like this.
LMAO
I considered posting something witty, but after reading that I just thought it would be pointless. That was freakin' hilarious!
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