AdamSmith Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 Attention MsGuy -- hooray for slow-moving undertakers down your way! Man wakes up in body bag at funeral home Coroner calls incident miracle UPDATED 10:24 PM CST Feb 27, 2014 wapt.com LEXINGTON, Miss. —Leaders at a funeral home in Lexington found a person alive and kicking in a body bag. The man was found at the Porter and Sons Funeral Home, on Yazoo Street. Walter Williams woke up and surprised many people. "I asked the coroner what happened, and the only thing he could say is that it's a miracle," Holmes County Sheriff Willie March said. "I stood there and watched them put him in a body bag and zipped it up," Williams' nephew, Eddie Hester, said. The coroner said he checked Williams' pulse about 9 p.m. Wednesday and pronounced him dead at his home in Lexington. "That was at 10:30, and at 2:30, my cousin called me and said, 'Not yet,' and I said, 'What you mean not yet?' He said, 'Daddy still here,'" Hester said. After the coroner helped move Williams to Porter and Sons Funeral Home, workers were getting ready to embalm him, but that's when he started to move. Byron Porter said it's the first time he's ever seen anything like it. Williams' was inside the zipped-up body bag and kicking to get out. Paramedics rushed Williams him to a hospital, where family members said Thursday night that he's happy to be alive. "I don't know how long he's going to be here, but I know he's back right now. That's all that matters," Hester said. The coroner said Williams' pacemaker may have stopped working and then started up again. Family members said Williams is a fighter. He's been a long-time farmer and worked for the school board. Read more: http://www.wapt.com/news/central-mississippi/man-wakes-up-in-body-bag-at-funeral-home/24722536#ixzz2udKcRXC7 Quote
Members MsGuy Posted February 28, 2014 Members Posted February 28, 2014 County coroners (elected in Mississippi) rarely have any medical training. Often enough they are funeral home directors anxious to make first contact with the recently bereaved. Who the hell else would want the job enough to mount a county wide political race? hooray for slow-moving undertakers down your way! Seeing as how they were about to drain him and pump him full of formaldehyde when he started jerking around, I'd say the guy moved as fast as possible to secure a profitable piece of business. Quote
AdamSmith Posted February 28, 2014 Author Posted February 28, 2014 Ah. So now he knows to step on it next time. Quote
Guest zipperzone Posted March 1, 2014 Posted March 1, 2014 A funeral home on Yazoo Street - doesn't that tell you something? Quote
Members RA1 Posted March 1, 2014 Members Posted March 1, 2014 Not only is there a Yazoo City but also a Yazoo County, MS. Probably there are some "strange" native names in BC also. Best regards. RA1 Quote
Members MsGuy Posted March 1, 2014 Members Posted March 1, 2014 Thank you for the support, RA1. I was studiously ignoring Zipper's insult but it's nice that someone stepped forward to stop the bully. Quote
Guest zipperzone Posted March 3, 2014 Posted March 3, 2014 Thank you for the support, RA1. I was studiously ignoring Zipper's insult but it's nice that someone stepped forward to stop the bully. Insult? Bully? My my, aren't we touchy today Quote
Guest zipperzone Posted March 3, 2014 Posted March 3, 2014 Not only is there a Yazoo City but also a Yazoo County, MS. Probably there are some "strange" native names in BC also. Best regards. RA1 Damn right there are! Mostly Indian (1st Nation as they like to be called) Just as there are "strange" names everywhere. Funny how some posters go off the rails (not meaning you) due no doubt to a deficit of appreciation of others' humour. Quote
Members MsGuy Posted March 3, 2014 Members Posted March 3, 2014 Damn right there are! Mostly Indian (1st Nation as they like to be called) Yazoo is a first nation word too. Funny how some posters go off the rails (not meaning you) ... It's just that I'm such a delicate boy, Zipper; I tear up too easily. due no doubt to a deficit of appreciation of others' humour. Yeah, I've had that very problem with my own posts on more than one occasion. Sometimes folks just don't get that I'm joking around. (not meaning you, of course) When we're doing humor, I guess we've got to accept that sometimes our best effort will fall flat on its face. lookin 1 Quote
