The story is told of an elderly clergyman who passed away. He was duly put into his coffin, which was taken to the church for the funeral. As part of the service, the congregation sang the old chaps' favourite hymn. To everyone's surprise, he loudly joined in from his coffin!

The best one is the one where somebody hitched a lift in a friends' open-bed truck. The friend, a carpenter, was delivering a coffin to the undertaker in the next town and taking his wife shopping at the same time. A little way into the journey it came on rain, so the passenger decided to climb into the coffin to stay dry, where he promptly fell asleep. Along the way, the couple picked up anoher hitch-hiker, who got into the back. A little while later, the first passenger woke up, pushed the coffin lid aside, sat up and asked "Are we there yet?". The second passenger leapt, screaming, out of the truck, which was travelling at some 30 mph, thus doing himself a moderate drastical!

In the subsequent court case, the judge pointed out that there was no law he knew of stating that a coffin had to contain a dead body, and if theplaintiff was supid enough to jump from a vehicle travelling at speed it was his own look-out!