Two Charged With Stealing Hearse for Pub Crawl
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Two men stole a hearse to ferry them around during a pub crawl - complete with a body in the back. The South Africans were caught when the vehicle ran out of gas at 3 a.m. and they asked three women, who they met in a bar, to give them a push.
But the ladies did not believe their drunken claims that the body in the coffin was a friend they were taking to a cemetery in Soweto for burial and called police.
It emerged that the men had taken the hearse after the driver had popped out to pick up some money.
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Siphiwo Mkhize said: "What kind of people are these?
"Going shebeen (bar) hopping with a corpse takes the cake."
Police said the men had planned to dump the body but had not decided what to do with the hearse.
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A spokesman told the Sowetan newspaper: "They failed to show us the papers identifying whose corpse it was, and they appeared to be drunk."
They are in custody and the body has been returned to a local mortuary.