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Saturday, 13 March, 2010
Dead Body Towed Away
(with comments)
In New York: Police tow funeral home van with body inside.
For one New Yorker, the journey to the Pearly Gates involved a detour to the city's car pound.
On Monday, the New York City Police Department towed an illegally parked van carrying a body. The van, parked outside Redden's Funeral Home on West 14th Street, was to transport the body to Newark for a flight.
According to the New York Daily News, DeNigris said he went inside the funeral home to get paperwork and answer a phone call. When he returned, the van was gone -- along with the body that was in a white cardboard box, the newspaper said.
"I was just a wreck," he told the newspaper. "I was frantic. When something like that happens, you go into panic mode."
But it all worked out:
DeNigris recovered the van about 90 minutes later, stuck in vehicular purgatory -- the city's pound. The police waived the towing fee, $185, to expedite the vehicle's release, said Paul Browne, deputy commissioner of public information for the police.
(Thanks Blayne)
- By Halford. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @05:19pm:So, the cops got stiffed.
- By Dar. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @05:28pm:I guess he (the body) might have went to hell and back again.
- By Dog. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @07:42pm:
- By Doug. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @09:35pm:"Home for Funerals"
Classy. - By wombat. Comment posted 14-Mar-2010 @11:01am:Weird. Either you or the dude who sent this to you left out some pretty critical information somehow. Probably just an oversight. Probably wasn't to make the story more interesting than it ought to be.
"Police described the van as an unmarked 2002 Dodge with tinted windows. The first ticket was issued at 9:22 a.m. Three hours later, it was towed, police officials said."
I wonder what else DeNegris lied about. - By Doug. Comment posted 14-Mar-2010 @03:14pm:I've seen a few funeral homes using black Dodge minivans as hearses - some with side scrolling and other's without. It's not always obvious what's a hearse and what's not.