Thread: Man wakes up in body bag at funeral home

LEXINGTON, Miss.—Workers at a Mississippi funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.

Holmes County Coroner Dexter Howard calls it a miracle that 78-year-old Walter Williams is alive.

The coroner was called to Williams' home in Lexington, a community north of Jackson, where family members believed he had died.

Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m.

rest - http://www.denverpost.com/breakingne...bag-at-funeral

Damn!

LOL...Its Alive!!!!

That'll ruin your day.

Someone in a hurry to claim the inheritance?

The guy must have been a very sound sleeper.

Originally Posted by OrangeHoof

Someone in a hurry to claim the inheritance?

The guy must have been a very sound sleeper.

from article:

Early Thursday, workers at Porter and Sons Funeral Home were preparing to embalm Williams when he started to kick in the body bag.

Family members were called and Williams was taken to a hospital. Howard says he believes Williams' pacemaker stopped working, then started again.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingne...bag-at-funeral

Originally Posted by Buff

That'll ruin your day.

Except for the "dead" guy who got resurrected. Its time to party

Heres some video
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs...alth.html?vp=1

Its the living dead!!!!

I was totally waiting for his name to be Bernie

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

I was totally waiting for his name to be Bernie

or Lazarus

Beats the alternative.

Not to get too political, but given the area of Mississippi this happened in, it doesn't shock me a bit. That is in the poorest, dumbest area of the poorest and dumbest state in America.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Not to get too political, but given the area of Mississippi this happened in, it doesn't shock me a bit. That is in the poorest, dumbest area of the poorest and dumbest state in America.

What do socio economic conditions have to do with it?

Originally Posted by slim

What do socio economic conditions have to do with it?

The coroner there might not be as bright as your average one. Seriously, that part of the state is pretty much a wasteland.

I mean seriously, how do you put someone in a body bag who isn't dead? This isn't exactly something you hear about happening every day.

As a geographical scientist by profession I have to agree with Wave, he's not far off on his perceptions