Some hasten their entry into a cemetery...

[MoonWrasse]

This strikes me as true poetic justice. Maybe even a candidate for this year's Darwin awards.


(06-04) 14:55 PDT HAYWARD - A speeding 1967 Corvette took a fateful turn Sunday morning in Hayward.

After the black convertible followed a second sports car into the spacious Holy Sepulchre Cemetery on Mission Boulevard, police said, the car skidded out of control and crashed into a mausoleum at 9:17 a.m., opening up a pair of crypts as mourners at a nearby burial ceremony looked on in horror.

The Corvette's 52-year-old driver, who was not immediately identified, was taken by ambulance to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, where he was pronounced dead a short time later. His recently restored classic was totaled.

The caskets inside the crypts were not damaged, said Hayward police Lt. Gary Branson.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/04/MNG26J8CT415.DTL

 

[Jcsgt]

I feel badly for his family, but I have a hard time drumming up sympathy for the driver.

 

[MoonWrasse]

I have more sympathy for the totaled Corvette than I do for the driver.

Hopefully he's not someone I know.

 

[MoonWrasse]

It turns out he was delivering flowers to his mother's grave when he crashed into the crypt and died.

 

[OHGoDive]

I think this should be the new textbook definition of irony.