[Photo from Hawgheavenhearse]In the good old days, I taught many students from Carver Ranches.
McClatchy picked up an article in the Miami Herald describing how yesterday morning, at a funeral being held at Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church in Carver Ranches, a young man stole a hearse.
How would you feel about that? You're laying there dead, in a coffin, wondering when the godawful boring service is gonna end, and some clown steals your ride to Valhalla.
Johnny Silfrain, 18, was the culprit. Evidently, he felt the need to do a little joyriding. The hearse was sitting right there, not being used at the moment, so what the hell; borrow it!
Which he did. The coppers chased him. By the time it ended, Silfrain was in custody with a bullet hole in his leg.
I really don't think he had a death wish. I really think he's just stupid.
"Joyriding" in a hearse?
Maybe he had too much to drink and put the quart before the hearse.
[Thanks to my mother, who first coined that phrase, which you may have seen on one of those Burma Shave signs.]
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