Funeral home workers find man alive and 'kicking' after he wakes up inside body bag

[The Straight Story]

LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) -- 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.

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

http://www.wcpo.com/news/national/funeral-home-workers-find-man-alive-and-kicking-after-he-wakes-up-inside-body-bag

[In_The_Wind]

1. I wonder how often a malfunctioning pacemaker kills someone.

[snooper2]

2. Wait till he gets home and finds out everyone went through all his shit

Gonna be some re-writing of that will!

[valerief]

5. Ha! I was thinking that, too!!! nt

[TwilightGardener]

3. Weird. Who pronounced him dead? Someone needs to look at the

family a little harder. This doesn't sound innocent.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Appears the coroner pronounced him.

Did you know..in many places, the coroner job has no specific qualifications?
don't have to be a doc, or even a medical person.

[TwilightGardener]

9. This doesn't sound right at all. Why didn't he get any medical attention?

Unwitnessed deaths usually have to have an autopsy. And if his "death" was witnessed, why didn't someone call an ambulance? Very strange.

[Inkfreak]

4. As an avid zombie fiction fan...

I'd prolly shit my pants if I saw that.

[jsr]

7. They were probably getting ready to stab him with the trocar

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. Around here we call that

"Saturday morning"