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'Dead' dad calls daughter at funeral
From correspondents in Toronto
September 18, 2004

DANE Squires was late for his own funeral and scared the wits out of everyone involved.

Family and friends had gathered at a Toronto funeral home to mourn the retired welder from Newfoundland, whom they believed had been hit by a train.

But as relatives were watching the casket being loaded into a hearse, his daughter Trina was told she had an important phone call.

Her father was on the other end.

"She totally, totally lost it," Mr Squires' brother Gilbert said.

"She said, 'There's a ghost talking to me on the phone. Please somebody try to make sense out of this because I'm losing my mind'."

Dane Squires was initially identified as the victim of a commuter train accident.

The body was badly mutilated, but fit his description, police said. Authorities have not yet correctly identified the victim.

Gilbert Squires said: "He (Dane) went to my sister's house and whoever answered the door fainted."

He said his brother did not become aware of the confusion until he read his own obituary in a newspaper.

Mr Squire's sister had identified the dead man as her brother after viewing the body at the coroner's office this week, police said.

The Associated Press




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This is a bad april fools joke and an even worse timing


http://www.news.com.au/common/story...5E13762,00.html

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Talk about a phone going dead. Heh, that's great!

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What a weird story. Why wouldn't he have spoken with his daughter beforehand?

I have the sound bite from Q3A in my head saying "PHOBOS" over and over. It's disgusting.

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Funerals should have that "If anyone has a valid reason while this funeral should not go ahead, speak now or forever hold your peace" bit.

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Ha, that's hilarious. Stupid sister, can't tell a strange man's corpse from her brothers'.

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never trust a woman's judgement.

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The dad would have had far more respect from me if he were to have stood just a few graves away from the mourners waving slowly and making soft "woooooooo.... wooooooooooo" noises.

Saying that it would have made a good verizon commercial, "Can you hear me now?"

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Perhaps the verizon dork who does that commercial could be inside the coffin, serving as the misidentified mutilated body?

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I hope they can return the flowers!

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Originally posted by bunkum
Perhaps the verizon dork who does that commercial could be inside the coffin, serving as the misidentified mutilated body?

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Originally posted by GoFuckYourselves!
I hope they can return the flowers!

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