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Today is the first day of the rest of your life

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:51 am
by BackInTex
Now go out and change the world!

Man wakes up in body bag at funeral home

LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Workers at a Mississippi funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.

Holmes County Coroner Dexter Howard calls it a miracle that 78-year-old Walter Williams is alive.

The coroner was called to Williams' home in Lexington, a community north of Jackson, where family members believed he had died.

Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m.

Early Thursday, workers at Porter and Sons Funeral Home were preparing to embalm Williams when he started to kick in the body bag.

Family members were called and Williams was taken to a hospital. Howard says he believes Williams' pacemaker stopped working, then started again.

Family members say Williams, a farmer, told them he's happy to be alive.

Re: Today is the first day of the rest of your life

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:53 am
by MarleysGh0st
BackInTex wrote:Now go out and change the world!
Maybe start by inventing an improved pacemaker battery. :wink:

Re: Today is the first day of the rest of your life

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 9:25 am
by littlebeast13
MarleysGh0st wrote:
BackInTex wrote:Now go out and change the world!
Maybe start by inventing an improved pacemaker battery. :wink:

Where's that damn pink bunny when you need him....

lb13

Re: Today is the first day of the rest of your life

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 9:25 am
by silverscreenselect
BackInTex wrote: Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m. Howard says he believes Williams' pacemaker stopped working, then started again.
Blame Obamacare.

Re: Today is the first day of the rest of your life

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 9:26 am
by franktangredi
silverscreenselect wrote:
BackInTex wrote: Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m. Howard says he believes Williams' pacemaker stopped working, then started again.
Blame Obamacare.
You just had to go there, didn't you?

Re: Today is the first day of the rest of your life

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 9:28 am
by Bob78164
franktangredi wrote:
silverscreenselect wrote:
BackInTex wrote: Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m. Howard says he believes Williams' pacemaker stopped working, then started again.
Blame Obamacare.
You just had to go there, didn't you?
I'm pretty sure his tongue was planted quite firmly in his cheek for that remark. If nothing else, at age 78 the guy was on Medicare. --Bob

Re: Today is the first day of the rest of your life

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:23 am
by earendel
Did he have a toe tag that read "Emotionally exhausted and morally bankrupt"?

Re: Today is the first day of the rest of your life

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:46 am
by Bob Juch
earendel wrote:Did he have a toe tag that read "Emotionally exhausted and morally bankrupt"?
It didn't say his political party.

Re: Today is the first day of the rest of your life

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:15 pm
by lilclyde54
Down here, some of our people take playing possum to extremes.