General @ Wednesday January 09, 2008 06:46 pm by WunderKraut

Slow News Day

You know it’s a slow news day in South Georgia when the local NBC station has this story on its website…and probably on the 6 o’clock news:

Area funeral parlors pay fines for minor violations

You know me, I just had to look. I find the whole embalming/undertaking business to be intriguing. I have a very large morbid curiosity. Sue me.

Here is one of the citations:

Nance & Sons Mortuary, Inc., Cordele: Inspection citation of $350 which includes a $50 fine for failure to display current licenses for the establishment, embalmer, funeral director, or any apprentices licensed with the establishment; and a $300 fine for failure to maintain the required minimum inventory of eight adult caskets. The inventory was deficient by three caskets.

It’s almost as if you can actually see the paint dry…

3 Responses to “Slow News Day”

  1. on 09 Jan 2008 at 9:56 pm   prechrchet

    You would be amazed at the quirky regulations you run into in funeral homes.

    For example, you cannot refuse to bury a body just because the bill has not been paid. But you can refuse to put the remains in the casket until the casket has been paid for, and no cemetery that I know of will let you bury a body without a casket.

    The things you learn when you hang out at a funeral home.

  2. on 10 Jan 2008 at 10:10 am   Michael

    Wow…it was a DEAD news day! If I was an editor, I might have KILLED that story.

    Thanks for letting me express my bad humor! It is slow up here in Michigan.

  3. on 10 Jan 2008 at 10:13 am   WunderKraut

    Just so you don’t get the wrong idea about prechrchet…he is a preacher, so he does spend more time than normal people at funeral homes….

    Michael…don’t make me ban you! :-P