A little known fact
You know that wooden platform the coffin sits on in a hearse? There's a compartment underneath for another coffin. If the funeral director has two funerals in a morning (or afternoon), they'll often load up with both the stiffs and surreptitiously pull the second one out after the first funeral (I'm assuming they do this at the crematorium or church, not in a picnic area somewhere). Efficient, you see.
(rogerzilla, Sun 14 Apr 2013, 15:16, 5 replies)

I have this vision of someone hiding inside said space and popping out just after the coffin is removed, giving heart attacks to all present...

( Wanderer, Sun 14 Apr 2013, 15:34, closed)

The space is also useful if one of the mourners
pegs it at the second funeral.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Sun 14 Apr 2013, 19:51, closed)

That's what you call
cross-selling
(rogerzilla, Sun 14 Apr 2013, 20:48, closed)

This hidden space is also useful for collecting 'clients' from other areas, e.g. if someone has died on holiday and been repatriated.
The undertakers can pick up the loved one without anyone seeing the coffin.

So next time an apparently empty hearse overtakes you on the motorway and you think 'What's the rush?', well now you know.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sun 14 Apr 2013, 20:50, closed)

I have the image of an automatic, transformer-like system for swapping the coffins

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 15 Apr 2013, 10:28, closed)