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    ArchdukeryAleksander Chan
    5/13/15 2:41pm

    Honestly, I think the most important point in this story is this:

    Rudolph apparently fired the two men despite pleas from Coleman’s widow to let the men keep their jobs.

    If the widow’s okay with it, why should some busy-body in a DD parking lot get to ruin two guys’ jobs?

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      TraceArchdukery
      5/13/15 2:47pm

      Because people suck, that’s why. You’re 100% right that this is the most important part of it. Nice old lady is super nice. I would’ve done the same if it were my spouse tbh.

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      CultureCannibalArchdukery
      5/13/15 2:52pm

      Because people are horrible, spineless little fuckers and cave at the first ‘But he was a VETERAN!’

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    TraceAleksander Chan
    5/13/15 2:44pm

    Poll: would you be pissed if someone did this while driving your corpse?

    I would not be pissed, personally. I would also be dead and unable to feel emotion admittedly, but maybe if ghosts are real I totally would’ve just given them a thumbs up for at least not parking my body in a Starbucks parking lot.

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      SoMuchStupidTrace
      5/13/15 2:49pm

      Not. I am dead. I do not care.

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      humanSuitcaseTrace
      5/13/15 2:53pm

      No. Remind me to stipulate in my will that if this were to happen, the drivers get me a dozen Boston Cremes to go.

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    DickRickAleksander Chan
    5/13/15 2:35pm

    "So you have a dead soldier in the back of your hearse and you're stopping to get coffee?' And he didn't say anything."

    He did, however, have a glazed look on his face

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      CultureCannibalDickRick
      5/13/15 2:39pm

      I didn’t want to laugh at this.

      But I did.

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      CSAUGHMYEYEDickRick
      5/13/15 2:51pm

      donut joke about stuff like that

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    CultureCannibalAleksander Chan
    5/13/15 2:39pm

    Yeah. Because he was in a huge fucking rush to get to where he was going.

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      CSAUGHMYEYECultureCannibal
      5/13/15 2:52pm

      that’s like the joke about the condemned man shouting out his cell window at the people running toward the gallows they’ve built for him: “what are you running for? Nothing will happen till I get there”

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      Andrew MochulskyCultureCannibal
      5/13/15 2:56pm

      [fucks the corpses]
      It’s not like they mind!

      [eats the corpses]
      They’re just going in the ground anyways!

      [makes a complicated marionette show that recreates the sharting scene from Along Came Polly using the corpses]
      Ha ha! I am a good and smart person!

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    RegretsalotAleksander Chan
    5/13/15 2:33pm

    Come on guys, he could’ve been seriously hurt left alone in the car like that!

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      MattRegretsalot
      5/13/15 2:42pm

      Listen, I don't even leave my milk in a hot car, let alone a corpse.

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      PlagueRegretsalot
      5/13/15 2:53pm

      Or even worse, it could have been hot and somebody would have had to break a window to let him out.

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    Sean BrodyAleksander Chan
    5/13/15 2:32pm

    Veterans Funeral Care, who had prepared the hearse, later fired the two men, both longtime employees in their 70s

    Ah, ffs like

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      throwaway3x3x3Sean Brody
      5/13/15 2:45pm

      Should it really change my opinion on whether this was a wrong thing to do because they were 70 and not 30? ... I don’t know, but it does. I mean, I’m sure if they were reprimanded, they wouldn’t do it again.

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      Sean Brodythrowaway3x3x3
      5/13/15 2:53pm

      Internet outrage has its place. But sacking two 70-year-olds for making a coffee stop seems like it’s doing its job too well.

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    NopethemeercatAleksander Chan
    5/13/15 2:35pm

    This is ridiculous and has nothing to do with respecting the dead. This is just society being prudish about death and horrified that there was, for even two minutes, a dead body somewhere outside of the sanctioned places dead bodies are allowed to be. Is the expectation that people who work with the dead, including transporting the dead, never take bathroom or coffee breaks?

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      CultureCannibalNopethemeercat
      5/13/15 2:47pm

      No. This is busybodies getting their knickers in a twist because it was a veteran, and we all know that there is no more precious cargo in all of christendom than a dude in a uniform, even if he’s shuffled off this mortal coil after a long and relatively uneventful post-war life.

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      Darth MoleNopethemeercat
      5/13/15 3:18pm

      This seems like less of a “dead body” thing and more of a “dead Veteran” thing.

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    stacyinbeanAleksander Chan
    5/13/15 2:44pm

    I fail to see where the outrage on this one comes from, am I bad person? (Don’t answer that.)

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeAleksander Chan
      5/13/15 2:34pm

      This is when you use the hearse with the tinted windows and the airbrushed tailgate with the “If this van’s a knockin,’ shoot the fuckin’ zombie” sign.

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        interrogator-chaplain╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
        5/13/15 2:39pm

        OH MAN, I need to go out in that hearse!

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      LordBurleighAleksander Chan
      5/13/15 2:33pm

      Well, you know, those Cronuts aren’t gonna be at Dunkin Donuts forever. In this way, they resemble our mortal life. This incident is a metaphor.

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