A Real Life Funeral Crasher
Many of you have probably seen the movie “Wedding Crashers”. At the very end Will Ferrell’s character decides to quit crashing weddings, but takes it up a notch by crashing funerals. I’ve always known that some people “just show up” to funerals for the food, or simply because they enjoy funerals (yes, these people exist). But here’s a story that proves the myth of the funeral crasher is a real thing:
By Paul Chapman in Wellington, New Zealand:
The man attended up to four funerals a week, even taking home leftovers in a “doggy bag” container.
Danny Langstraat, a director of Harbour City Funeral Home in Wellington, said his company finally became so irritated with the intruder’s behaviour that it took a photograph of him, which it distributed to its branch offices.
The firm also alerted grieving families to his presence.
“He was showing up to funeral after funeral and, without a doubt, he didn’t know the deceased,” Mr Langstraat said.
“We saw him three or four times a week.
“Certainly, he had a backpack with some Tupperware containers so, when people weren’t looking, he was stocking up,” he told the Dominion-Post newspaper.
Read the full story HERE.
