I've found a lot of stuff along the roadways...

[Archae]

I ride a bicycle, so I find a lot of stuff on the roads, just last week I found a working LED flashlight.

But I've never found one of these...

‘No reports of zombies’: Sheriff’s office finds casket along roadway

A sheriff’s office in central Wisconsin has a question for you: “Anyone missing a casket?”

The Adam’s County Sheriff’s Office took to Facebook to post a photo of a casket found along a highway last weekend.

“We’re pretty certain it did not come out of the ground, and there have been no reports of zombies in the area,” the post reads.

The Sheriff’s Office spoke with a funeral home and discovered used caskets can be sold to private citizens for haunted houses and displays.

http://wbay.com/2015/11/11/lose-a-casket-sheriffs-office-would-like-to-find-owner/

[liberal N proud]

1. Imagine following a vehicle and a casket falls off

[NV Whino]

2. "Used" caskets?

[pinboy3niner]

4. LOL

Likely meaning showroom display models that have gotten a little dinged.

[Lochloosa]

7. Maybe I can get a showroom display deal.....I mean, what would I care if it's a little dinged up.

They are going to throw dirt on it anyway.

[-none]

5. Used? How used?

Refurbished? Recycled? Previously owned? Recently vacated? Owner out for a walk and had a problem when the sun came up?

[NV Whino]

6. Excellent questions.

[VanillaRhapsody]

10. You forgot one...

Someone gave up on tiny house liiving even more minimalist style!

[csziggy]

11. They do rent caskets for viewings for cremation

If the casket to be burned is cheap, some funeral homes will rent upscale caskets for the viewings. So a body can be "shown off" in an expensive, fancy casket but burned in a cardboard box. My reaction is "EWWWWWWWW!"

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. That caught my attention also

[TexasProgresive]

3. I bicycle as well and see so much stuff on the right of ways.

My aunt has an adult trike that I'm thinking of retrofitting to do roadside trash collection. I could pay for the gas for a trip to town on the Bud Lite cans alone.

But I have never seen a coffin on the side of the road. That's a new one.

[L. Coyote]

8. This happened to my cousin one day, he lost a casket along the highway

and only noticed when he got back to the funeral home where he worked during college. He had to retrace his route and found it along a freeway ramp. At least so goes family legend. I wasn't there and the other guy who was isn't talking.

[malaise]

9. True story

I was driving along my usual route to work a few years ago and at one of the intersections, there was a hearse in an accident blocking the road. When I asked what had happened a man told me that they just killed a dead woman. Apparently her body was being taken to the funeral home when another car hit the hearse. I never forgot his description of what happened.