Funeral Director Gets Live One In The Sack
Submitted By: BizarreNews
Article Date: 02/16/2001
URL: http://www.goofball.com/news/20010216_bizarre
ASHLAND, Massachusetts - When emergency technicians found the the body of a 39 year-old woman slumped in a bathtub next to an empty bottle of sleeping pills, they assumed she was dead. So did funeral director John Matarese to whom the apparent corpse was delivered in a body bag. He revised his assessment when he heard gurgling noises coming from the bag. It scared me half to death, he said. The girl was alive. Police and emergency technicians were unable to detect any signs of life when they found the woman three and a half hours earlier. She apparently overdosed on pills, police said. The state Department of Public Health is investigating to determine whether emergency workers acted properly.