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Friday Morning around 7:45am I was driving through Rogersville, it was raining very heavy, & I saw an older model car (prob. early 80's) with its trunk open, as I closer to the car I could see something very large hanging out of the trunk. Like I said it was raining very heavily so at first I did not believe my eyes, so I turned my car around to get behind the car.....as I approached my worst fears were realized, hanging out of the trunk of this car was a CASKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE TELL ME I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT SEEN THIS!!!!

I felt real strange, like maybe I should contact some one, but decided that who ever was "transporting" this cargo had good reasons..............
HAPPY HALLOWEENIE!!!!
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Panic turning around and 'crane neckin' through the rain and fog on the windshield and squinty eyes sayin, "Thas not a casket! Can't be a casket! OMG!! Thas a casket!!"



That was exactly what I was doing, Maggie was that you driving the casket? lol

and I did call my cousin who works for the county & he said that as long as they were not breaking any laws & hopefull the casket was empty, there were not problems,

I almost told him, BUT THEY DIDNT HAVE A RED FLAG ON IT, but I left that out.....

does any one else listen to Rick & Bubba.....Have you guys heard the conversations about folks transporting bodies & caskets, themselves? That was my first thought, oh how sad, they didnt have the money for the hearse & they are having to transport grandma in the trunk.....


I will apologize ahead of time for any one this thread may offend.............
I have heard of this before and it is not restricted to "rednecks". Sad but true - the cost of transporting a casket is very expensive. I am referring to transporting from one town to another some distance away - not in the same town. The cost of transporting a casket a few hundred miles is in the thousands of $$$ and if the person did not have insurance and the family is not wealthy - what choice do they have in order to fullfill a loved ones wishes on a resting place. Someone has to foot the bill. Crematian may be the best answer.
Sad but true - this in not a "redneck" thing. The cost of transporting a casket can run into the thousands of dollars and unless the departed has insurance to cover the funeral it is up to the family to pick up the tab. What is the family of a loved one to do when there is no money and the loved one wishes to be buried in another part of the country or another city some distance away? I agree that it certainly is a head turner - but consider that this may have been a loved one that died some distance away and there is no money for a hurse to transport the body. Kind of sad really. Maybe crematian would have been a better resolution to money issues and transporting the loved one. Someone has to pay the bill on a funeral........
My husband recently painted a house in Tennessee, and the guys next door neighbor, had a casket in his shop, out in the back yard.
I asked the guy we were working for about it, and he said his neighbor was "planning ahead" !!
I couldn't help but laugh.
I mean, it was basically out in the weather. Seems like it would rust or something! lol!!
Years ago I saw something similar on Florence Boulevard. When we stopped for a light, I saw that the casket had dirt on it!

The car stopped at Culpepper's--where I was going anyway--a woman and a teenage girl got out, went in and asked for a birthday cake they had ordered. I had to ask...

It seems it was the husband's 50th and a friend who owned a storage facility had had the casket left in one of his storage compartments. The woman had no idea where the original inhabitant had gotten to.

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