Late to His Own Funeral?

[sandgk]

Well maybe that was the cause of the speeding ...
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An Irish hearse driver has been fined for speeding -- while leading a funeral cortege.
Police ordered undertaker John Carr to pay an 80 euro ($102) fine and gave him two penalty points for driving at 69 km/hr (43 miles/hour) in a 50 km/hr zone.
Several other vehicles in the cortege -- on its way to a funeral in County Donegal, northwest Ireland -- were also fined and their drivers threatened with prosecution if they did not pay.
Hundreds of people were caught in the same area during a police crackdown last month, including parents taking their children to school.
"I've never heard of a hearse being done for speeding before. I supposed I'll probably have to pay the fine," The Irish Times newspaper quoted Carr as saying. "I'm not too worried about the points because I intend not to incur any more."

 

[Wingate1217]

Doesn't this cop have better things to do than stop and harass grieving people on their way to the funeral. Yes, I know the hearse was speeding but couldn't he pick a better time to talk to the offending funeral director. Perhaps warn him? Sometimes discretion is the better way......

 

[coxew]

Doesn't this cop have better things to do than stop and harass grieving people on their way to the funeral. Yes, I know the hearse was speeding but couldn't he pick a better time to talk to the offending funeral director. Perhaps warn him? Sometimes discretion is the better way......

Most of the time I see them there is a police escort

 

[FKAGobucks877]

I don't know, sounds like they got him dead to rights.

 

[AJHawkfan]

So if the driver of the hearse gets pulled over, does the rest of the funeral procession pull over behind him? What's the funeral etiquette ruling on such a thing?

 

[sandgk]

So if the driver of the hearse gets pulled over, does the rest of the funeral procession pull over behind him? What's the funeral etiquette ruling on such a thing?

Well if you pull over ahead of the hearse that's clearly a case of "Burying the Lead"

 

[bkochmc]

Wow, maybe this police officer was aspiring to be hired by New Rome... someone should tell him the village was dissolved two years ago.