Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Proof of ownership

Imagine you are driving down the road, passenger in the backseat, seat belt buckled, and then bam! you are stopped by the police for transporting someone who's not quite alive. That's what happened to a woman in Berlin when she was fined for disturbing a dead person's peace. The dead person was the woman's mother who had died of natural causes. The woman was transporting her mother's body to save on mortuary transportation fees. Violating burial laws and disturbing a dead person's peace were the official charges. It's not like the mother was going to wake up and protest and she was wearing her seatbelt. The mother was even wearing clothes.

paul

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