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Funeral home steps in to stop the "grim eater"

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WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A New Zealand funeral home has stepped in to stop a fake mourner who was attending up to four funerals a week to stock up on food, even filling up tupperware containers to take home, according to media reports.



Harbour City Funeral Home director Danny Langstraat told local newspaper The Dominion Post that the grim eater appeared at up to four funerals a week in March and April to enjoy the finger food but clearly did not know the deceased.



The funeral company grew so concerned that it took a photograph of the man, thought to be aged in his 40s, and distributed the picture to its branches.



Certainly he had a backpack with some tupperware containers so when people weren't looking, he was stocking up, Langstraat told the newspaper.



He said the man was always very quiet and polite, and did as the rest of the mourners did in paying his respects.



Langstraat said the man stopped coming after one staff member took him aside and told him he could come to funerals but could not take food home with him.



Funeral Directors Association president Tony Garing told the newspaper that such cases happened in the industry occasionally but it was difficult to stop people from coming or call their behavior theft because funerals were usually public events.



Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100603/od_nm/us_funerals_odd
 
Poor guy is probably down on his luck and found a way to survive for now.
 
I find this funny! However I've been to at least 4 funerals in the last 5-6 years and I have never seen any food in the funeral parlor!

There is food however at the party after though, but it said funeral place though. Not party after.. Although maybe I just haven't been to that kind of funeral parlor before.
 
I can't help but feel sorry for the guy. As Nebulous mentioned he's probably down on his luck and this was his only source of food. Who knows maybe he has a family to feed and he found a way to do it before getting caught.
 
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