Funeral

  • NZ 'grim eater' banned from funerals

    Posted: June 3rd, 2010 - 11:33am by Doug Powell

    Part of the premise in the movie, Wedding Crashers, besides the potential for a partner, was the great food. How much could Vince Vaughan eat? Did anyone want to find out? Then, the Owen Wilson character hits bottom and starts crashing funerals to hit on women in emotional distress, or something like that.

    Now news from Wellington, New Zealand, where a man dubbed the ‘grim eater’ has been banned from funerals after attending up to four ceremonies a week and even taking home leftovers in a doggy bag.

    Danny Langstraat, a director of Harbour City Funeral Home in Wellington, said,

    "He was showing up to funeral after funeral and, without a doubt, he didn't know the deceased. We saw him three or four times a week. Certainly, he had a backpack with some Tupperware containers so, when people weren't looking, he was stocking up.”
     

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  • Norovirus suspected after 41 mourners at funeral get sick

    Posted: May 10th, 2010 - 2:42pm by Doug Powell

    Getting sick and dying while eating food in a hospital sorta sucks. So does going to a funeral and picking up norovirus.

    New Zealand health authorities are investigating an outbreak of suspected norovirus linked to food after more than 40 people fell ill following an April 28 funeral and reception for a leading Auckland musician.

    A spokeswoman for the Auckland Regional Public Health Service said yesterday that it was notified on May 3 that some people who had attended the function had become sick with gastro-intestinal symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea.

    The public health service spokeswoman said the food supplied at the post-funeral function, which included sandwiches and deli items, was suspected to be the source of the infection.

    The caterer, who did not wish to be named, said she supplied around three funerals a week.

    She said food poisoning had not been established yet in the case of the funeral, and the woman who made the sandwiches that day has a certificate in food handling.

    "Everything was bought fresh on the day."

    Fresh does not mean safe.

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