Corpse Falls Into Traffic in Texas

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<nitf>DALLAS -- The body of a Louisiana man strapped to a gurney fell from the back of a pickup truck Tuesday onto a south Dallas highway and into the path of oncoming traffic. "I didn't think it was possible for that to happen," said Mary Ellen Douglas, who was driving to work when she saw what she initially thought was a package that had fallen from a truck. "I wanted to get out of there. It was too freaky for me," she said in a story in Wednesday's editions of The Dallas Morning News.</nitf>

<nitf>Authorities said the driver was carrying the body to a Shreveport, La., funeral home after the man died Monday at a Mesquite hospital.</nitf>

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</td></tr></tbody> </table> <nitf>"The driver of the truck was not aware that he had lost the body," Dallas police Lt. Rick Andrews said. "He saw the open door. He stopped and looked. He turned around, went back and retraced his steps and found the body."</nitf>

<nitf>Drivers swerved to avoid the corpse and gurney.
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What was he doing with the body in the back of a truck anyway? :crazy:

That gives new meaning to the phrase, Being in double jeopardy.