Over My Dead Body
“I thought it was a package that had fallen from a truck,” said Mary Ellen Douglas. She swerved around the large item on the freeway in Dallas, Texas, but then realized it was no package: it was a body on a gurney, and its feet were sticking out. The corpse had rolled out of a truck on the way to a funeral home in Shreveport, La. “The driver of the truck was not aware that he had lost the body,” said a Dallas police spokesman — until he noticed the truck’s rear door was open. Then, “he went back and retraced his steps and found the body,” and continued on his way. (Dallas Morning News) ...Easy enough, since the corpse’s thumb was sticking out by then.
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