Who needs a casket? Let's just prop this dead guy up on his Honda CBR600

TRooper · 04-28-2010, 01:49 PM

Ghostrider?

Source-Jalopnik

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jalopnik

Rather than display a Puerto Rican shooting victim's body in a boring casket for the wake, morticians at one San Juan funeral home presented the corpse on the man's Honda motorcycle.

Just because David Morales Colón is dead doesn't mean he can't also be stylish. According to Primera Hora, the 22-year-old Puerto Rican man was murdered in his San Juan neighborhood last Thursday. As a tribute to the young man, the Marin Funeral Home treated the body and then dressed him up in his typical riding outfit complete with helmet on top of the Honda CBR600 F4 the man's uncle had given to him.

As you can see in the video below, the mortician positioned the body as if he were riding his bike all the way to heaven, though it appears to be little solace to the crying friends and family in attendance.

And yes, this is real.

TheClassicCarKid · 04-28-2010, 01:51 PM

wow, I really don't want to know what they did to have his neck stay like that :(

tlnewell0426 · 04-28-2010, 01:55 PM

That...is...disturbing...

allmotor · 04-28-2010, 01:57 PM

WTF...

"prima"Donna · 04-28-2010, 01:58 PM

Saw this on facebook...I actually think it's kinda cool, but in a weird way...

Maybe when I die, they can prop me up behind the wheel of my Camaro,

because I plan on driving it until I die, or it dies, whichever comes first....

TRooper · 04-28-2010, 01:59 PM

Apparently this isn't unusual for this particular funeral home.

Source-Fox News

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fox News

He was a real stand-up guy, even in death.

A funeral home in Puerto Rico used a special embalming treatment to keep the body of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for a three-day wake in his mother's San Juan home.

Donning a New York Yankees cap and sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in the living room.

"[Angel] wanted to be happy, standing," his brother Carlos told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper

The owner of the Marin Funeral Home, Damaris Marin, told The Associated Press the mother asked him to fulfill her dead son's last wish.

Pantoja was found dead Friday underneath a bridge in San Juan and buried Monday. Police were investigating. (AP)

Iwantone2 · 04-28-2010, 01:59 PM

Whoa...

CaniacFan · 04-28-2010, 02:03 PM

Disturbing, VERY disturbing..

Brokinarrow · 04-28-2010, 02:32 PM

ooook... is that kinda thing normal in Puerto Rico?? really creepy either way...

RedJewel2SS · 04-28-2010, 02:37 PM

the coffin just moved!

2010 SSRS · 04-28-2010, 02:41 PM

that is sick.

ssump29 · 04-28-2010, 02:42 PM

I think I heard the bike turn on in that video. lol.. Damn that's just wrong.

Da Hose · 04-28-2010, 02:44 PM

I'm facinated...yet creeped out at the same time!!!!!

christianmotox · 04-28-2010, 02:46 PM

That is so weird... i dont even know what to think.

04-28-2010, 01:57 PM	#4
allmotor movin' down the motorway Drives: Summiit White 2SS/RS/M6 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Palmetto Fl and Peabody MA Posts: 740	WTF... __________________ 417 stroker - Florida Speed and Power

04-28-2010, 01:58 PM	#5
"prima"Donna HWAY STR Drives: 2010 RJT VIN#7085 & 2014 CRT C7 Join Date: May 2009 Location: New York Posts: 13,118 View My Garage	Saw this on facebook...I actually think it's kinda cool, but in a weird way... Maybe when I die, they can prop me up behind the wheel of my Camaro, because I plan on driving it until I die, or it dies, whichever comes first.... __________________ ~ HWAY STR ~

04-28-2010, 01:59 PM	#7
Iwantone2 Voice Of The Voiceless Drives: CGM 1SS RS Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: OC Cali Posts: 9,610 View My Garage	Whoa... __________________

04-28-2010, 02:32 PM	#9
Brokinarrow Drives: 2012 Honda NC700x Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Indianola, IA Posts: 5,317 View My Garage	ooook... is that kinda thing normal in Puerto Rico?? really creepy either way... __________________

04-28-2010, 02:37 PM	#10
RedJewel2SS 12.23s@113mph Drives: 2SS/RS, A6, just a few bolt ons Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,197	the coffin just moved! __________________ RIP Cammie 7/15/2009 - 4/1/2011

04-28-2010, 01:55 PM	#3
tlnewell0426 Drives: 1SS ABM Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 186	That...is...disturbing...

04-28-2010, 02:03 PM	#8
CaniacFan Drives: '10 SS CGM #75,288, '14 Stingray Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 3,938	Disturbing, VERY disturbing..

04-28-2010, 02:41 PM	#11
2010 SSRS Drives: 3 V8 Camaros Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Ocean State Posts: 111,186 View My Garage	that is sick. __________________ Jannetty Racing JRE Street Package

04-28-2010, 02:42 PM	#12
ssump29 LOL at most people here. Drives: 2005 GTO,2006 M6, 2007 300 Touring Join Date: May 2009 Location: MI Posts: 1,331 View My Garage	I think I heard the bike turn on in that video. lol.. Damn that's just wrong. __________________ Number 5952. oh yeahhhhhhh

04-28-2010, 02:44 PM	#13
Da Hose ACCOUNT HOZED BY GN...... Drives: 2011 SGM 2SS/RS #26731 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Katy, TX Posts: 5,891 View My Garage	I'm facinated...yet creeped out at the same time!!!!!

04-28-2010, 02:46 PM	#14
christianmotox Drives: ( . )( . ) Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 2,827	That is so weird... i dont even know what to think.

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