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Woman Wakes Up in Coffin at her Funeral

This could very well be in an episode of The Walking Dead, but this incident is not a television show. This really happened in Peru.

Funeral attendees recently got the shock of a lifetime when a person on the verge of being buried suddenly woke up.

Rosa Isabel Cespedes Callaca was reportedly being buried on April 26 when, in the midst of a funeral procession in Peru, mourners carrying her coffin heard a strange knocking sound from inside the coffin.

It was Callaca, who was actually alive and found to be gasping for air when the coffin was placed on the ground.

“(She) opened her eyes and was sweating,” Juan Segundo Cajo, the caretaker of the cemetery, described the scene. “I immediately went to my office and called the police.”

Metro U.K. reported that after Callaca observed everyone at her own funeral, her family rushed her to Referential Hospital Ferrenafe for care. Doctors had difficulty finding signs of life, immediately putting her on life support until she died a few hours later.

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Eric Garner Was Laid To Rest Today – PICS

Eric Garner in happier times

The man who lost his life to a chokehold given to him by New York Police, was laid to rest today.

RIP Eric Garner.

Eric Garner’s Mother

Eric Garner in happier times

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Flavor Flav’s Speeding Trial Postponed

Back in January, Flava was hit with a speeding ticket in Long Island as he tried to be on time for his mother’s funeral. But plane tickets are expensive and with the Flavor living in LA, flying back and forth for this case is apparently putting a dent in his wallet.

Police say the rapper and reality star was speeding and driving without a license, a felony, on Jan. 9 on the Meadowbrook Parkway on Long Island. His attorney, Indji Bessim, says the case has been postponed to May 16, reports the AP.

Flav, whose real name is William Drayton, told reporters as he entered a Nassau County courtroom Tuesday that he hoped to resolve the case.

The rapper, who lives in Las Vegas, complained that flights from there to New York were becoming expensive.
At least he will save some money with his felony assault case, which takes place in Vegas. Flav faces that charge and others after allegedly threatening his longtime girlfriend’s teenage son.

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Dead Biker Buried In Transparent Coffin Sitting On His Harley

Years before Billy Standley died on Sunday, he planned out every detail of his funeral: He bought up the three plots next to his wife’s grave, had his sons build him a custom casket, and arranged for the funeral director to embalm him in a sitting position. Earlier today, Standley’s dream funeral took place, and he was laid to rest atop his beloved Harley-Davidson.

Standley first came up with the idea 18 years ago and, with the help of his family, worked on it on and off for years. The casket was made out of plexiglass, with wood and steel rods reinforcing its bottom.

“If you stopped by his house, he showed you his casket,” his son Roy Standley told the Dayton Daily News. “He was proud of it.”

Dave and Tammy Vernon, co-owners of a funeral home, were tasked with the embalming process. “We’ve done personalization… but nothing this extreme,” Tammy Vernon said.

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Man Comes Back To Life at His Funeral

Mourners freaked out when a dead man came back to life at his own funeral.

Friends and family “jumped out of their skins” and “ran for their lives” when Brighton Dama Zanthe, 34, started moving in his coffin last Monday.

They thought their buddy — who they thought died following a long illness — had come back to haunt them.

Lot Gaka, the Zimbabwean transport worker’s boss, somehow managed to keep his cool – springing into action to save his pal.

He desperately pulled the blankets off Zanthe’s body and called an ambulance.

Rushed to the nearby Gweru Provincial Hospital, he spent two days in intensive care before being discharged last week.

“I don’t know what happened, and I only remember being on a life support system in hospital,” NewZimbabwe.com reports him as saying.

He added: “Everything is history to me. What I can only confirm is that people gathered at my house to mourn but I was given another chance and I am alive. I feel okay now.”

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Boston Bomber Buried… In Undisclosed Location

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in an undisclosed location outside the city of Worcester, police said Thursday after a frustrating weeklong search for a community willing to take the body.

“As a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased,” Worcester police said in a statement.

Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said the body was no longer in Worcester and is now entombed. Police did not specify where the body was taken.

Tsarnaev’s body had been at the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors. Director Peter Stefan had said he could not find a community willing to take the body, including Cambridge, where the family had lived for a decade. Tsarnaev’s uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, had custody of the body.

Meanwhile, Tsarnaev’s widow continues to face questions from federal authorities and has hired a criminal lawyer with experience defending terrorism cases.

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