Diesel On Life

An entirely free funeral? Sorry guys, this one was too easy…

ROME, Ga. — Planning to drink and drive this New Year’s? A north Georgia funeral home has a deal for you. Between now and noon Thursday, drivers can visit McGuire, Jennings and Miller Funeral Home in Rome to sign a contract stating they plan to drink or take drugs and then drive on New Year’s Eve. If they die in a wreck that day, the funeral home will give them a free burial.

Services included in the package are a casket, grave, limousine and preparation of remains.

Funeral home officials said the program is designed to save lives by making partygoers think twice about drinking and driving.

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Information from: Rome News-Tribune, http://www.romenews-tribune.com

…OK. So how twisted is this? Pretty cool, actually, unless you’re suicidal. (wonder if there’s a suicidal/mentally insane clause that nullifies the contract if you’re mentally unstable?) Then again, if you’re going to sit there and actually PLAN your potential funeral after your kinda sorta planned demise, well, crap, you CAN’T be wrapped too tight. Really. Seriously. Hell, they’re even gonna GIVE you a free limo ride to your final place of rest!

BUT: I wonder if the free funeral covers death by falling mooseheads??? Check THIS out…

Suit: NYC eatery patron hurt by falling moose head

NEW YORK — A Web designer says she was struck by the decor at a New York City restaurant — when it fell on her head. Raina Kumra says in a negligence lawsuit filed last week that a 150-pound stuffed moose head with 3-foot-wide antlers plummeted off a wall at the Scandinavian-themed White Slab Palace on Oct. 4 and hit her. She says she suffered a concussion and other injuries.

The owner of the Manhattan restaurant hasn’t returned a telephone message left by The Associated Press. Nor has Kumra, who’s representing herself in the case.

Kumra filed her lawsuit in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. She’s seeking unspecified damages.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Now THAT bring a WHOLE new meaning to the term “excedrin headache.” Or worse, “y’all seen the bull (or moose?) now ya gonna get the horns…” Or at least ringing in the ears. Hell, maybe her “unspecified damages” will be getting to keep the moose head for her livingroom wall…

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