Work pranks, Part 3.
Not me, told by a friend.

My friend worked in a nursing home- she was a nursing student- and the nursing students all had to do their practical there, so there was a steady influx of new girls to pull pranks on.

One girl was asked to take an old man downstairs to the morgue as he had died in his sleep the night before. Needless to say, she was a bit jumpy- but she did as she was told and wheeled the gurney into the elevator.

Now, no one had thought fit to mention to her to strap the body down, and not long after death rigor mortis sets in. As certain sets of muscles tend to be stronger than others, interesting things can happen. In particular, the abdominal muscles are stronger than the lower back muscles.

Part of the way down the elevator it hit, and the abdominal muscles tightened. As the girl stood in the elevator with this dead man, he began to slowly sit up.

When she reached the bottom she bolted for the stairs and never came back.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 13 Dec 2007, 21:54, Reply)