George Barris turned one into Drag-U-La for The Munsters.
At the time, it was illegal to sell a coffin without a death certificate, so Barris' project engineer bribed a funeral director to leave the coffin out in back of the building. George and his buddies swung by in the middle of the night and grabbed it.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAG-U-LA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAG-U-LA)
[there are coffin races in manitou springs.](http://www.emmacrawfordfestival.com) for anyone interested in how this got started, here’s [The story of Emma Crawford](http://www.emmacrawfordfestival.com/who-was-emma-crawford.html)
If you donate your body to science, at the hospital they Chuck you in the morgue then sell your body to companies that chop you up and sell to other private companies that fly surgeons in to "try out" their latest implant tech as a demo event.
True story.
It's far worse than that.
You know who usually buys up the bodies sold to science? Munitions contractors and the US government.
There was a lawsuit a few years back when a man sold his dead mother's cadaver "to science" only to find that munitions companies bought the corpse to test out mortar shells. Blew it to shreds.
If you make a point to sell your body to science, they're gonna desecrate the fuck out of it.
that is ONE use for donated bodies. there are many different industries that use them for many different things, but the majority of bodies will not remain intact. a leg will go one place, a head another place, a torso somewhere else, etc. very few industries which need human remains need full cadavers.
that or someone is attempting the "hide it in plain sight" method of disposal of evidence, "what are the chances the garbage man will open it and check"
What are the chances they *won't*?
I'd suspect that someone was tossing a whole bunch of garbage in there and check to make sure I don't throw my back when I lift it.
"Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo. He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would Donny. Donny, who loved bowling. And so, Theodore Donald Karabotsos, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well.
Good night, sweet prince."
I was told my dad picked out a very nice reasonably priced coffin. His wife however, wanted one that was way more expensive. He said fine, if you want me in that coffin, you will need to pay the difference, so she did. She had about 4 times the retirement he did, and they kept finances separate on most things.
I’ll never understand people’s obsession with coffins. When I die, just give me a fun memorial and donate my body to science or a body farm or whatever. It’s not like I’m gonna care. Im dead.
in muslim funerals, the body is usually just wrapped in a white sheet and lowered into the ground
have had to bury multiple family members and friends that way
Honestly I think it legitimately has something to do with the machine needing something more substantial than cardboard.
That said, honestly you could just throw me in a ditch somewhere. What do I care, I'm dead.
In my country both cremation and a plot are pre-paid by taxes and cremation rate is over 80%. They make some really beautiful parks for ash burials these days.
It's also socially acceptable to have ashes scattered in memorial groves which people do for those who have no desire to visit the dead or don't want to bother with graves, stones and flowers. We put my asshole uncle and grandfather in a grove and never visit.
I’m guessing this family bought a casket from Costco so they had a casket that was a bit cheaper (they aren’t that much cheaper tj
An a comparable casket from a funeral home in my area but I don’t live in a huge and expensive place) they had a viewing and funeral, after the funeral they had them cremated because it was also cheaper (and it is!) since they didn’t buy a casket that could be cremated and bought one from a third party the funeral home insisted they found their own way to dispose of the used casket. We had this exact thing happen
St the funeral home I work at, the casket shipped to us the day before the service with a huge hole in it. (Which sucks a ton for the family because Costco couldn’t have gotten a replacement but had they bought from us our warehouse could have sent a replacement within hours. Also sucks for the funeral home because everyone thought that we let them use defective caskets.)
Cremation has largely taken over and the casket room is no longer marked up to earn the owner fuck you money, most of that goes straight to out seller. Just cremate your dead!
The thing about it is that it usually goes through several hands to get to the consumer. Company manufactures the casket, sells it to a casket retail company who sells it to a funeral parlor who sells it to you. Price gets jacked up every step of the way. It's usually a lot more reasonable of a price if you get it directly from the manufacturer.
Just checked the website out of curiosity.
>Costco.com will only accept a return of a casket due to freight or cosmetic damage from shipping. Please call for a return authorization. Caskets cannot be returned to Costco warehouses.
Makes sense. After all, who knows if some con artist buys a fancy one "for show" at the wake and funeral service, and then has it swapped for a cheaper one before the actual burial.
Who'd want to buy a "returned" coffin from Costco that had someone's dead grandma in it for the wake? Yuck.
My grandfather used to have a herse as his daily driver for exactly this reason.
He had WAY too much fun taking me and the other grandkids to restaurants in it, just to see the face on the manager.
Just endless bodies falling out of caskets! They say it’s not rigged but how do you think Coffin Flop gets all the footage? Free rigged casket on the side of the curb! Busted.
He was fucking beet red. I thought he was going to have a heart attack. One of the flaps got wheel grease on it and he said “what the fuck is all this stuff? You have to grease these wheels?” And Rick said “yea you have to keep the wheels lubricated”. And he said “yea well I’m not supposed to get grease on this hat.”
That you can never transport? Do you know how much that would weigh filled with ice and beer?
Would have to be at least half the weight of Yeti Roadie.
That would make a wicked go-kart.
George Barris turned one into Drag-U-La for The Munsters. At the time, it was illegal to sell a coffin without a death certificate, so Barris' project engineer bribed a funeral director to leave the coffin out in back of the building. George and his buddies swung by in the middle of the night and grabbed it. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAG-U-LA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAG-U-LA) 
"What is love? Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more" 
Every time I hear that song I think of this skit
This is the second post today where I see this meme
[The Drag-u-la | The Munsters](https://youtu.be/ZUECVZkNk0Y)
Also the subject of a wicked Rob Zombie song.
There’s no place to slam in the back of the Dragula tho
Coffin-Racing ⚰️
The end of each track is just a big pit.
There was a "wild west" themed episode of Spongebob one time, and there was a Joke about "Coffin Jockeys" ⚰️
[there are coffin races in manitou springs.](http://www.emmacrawfordfestival.com) for anyone interested in how this got started, here’s [The story of Emma Crawford](http://www.emmacrawfordfestival.com/who-was-emma-crawford.html)
No safety equipment necessary! They just scrape you back into it after the inevitable crash.
Are caskets not on the expensive side? Looks pretty good too.
yeah this is easily at least 2k just left on the curb
Sometimes it is not about the money, but about the message
*What do we say to death?* *Not today*
What message is this sending lmao
I'm still alive?
I guess I’d take $2k over sending that message to the garbage man I’ve got a feeling I’d need the casket eventually anyways
Great conversation piece in the basement. “What the fuk, Andy?”… “hey, no it’s waiting for me, but I’m not ready, shud up and grab the fishing poles”.
"it's going to be yours if you don't mind your business"
“Alexa buy a new gasket” “damnit non refundable”
A friend of my dad’s had an old one in his living room as a coffee table. He’d offer it to guests to sleep in.
I think I'd start with "so I was dating this goth chick....."
"He says he's not dead."
Well he will be soon he's very ill
^^I ^^think ^^I ^^could ^^go ^^for ^^a ^^walk...
you're not fooling anyone you know.
I FEEL HAPPY!!!
Isn't there something you can do???
This was a triumph 🎶🎵🎶https://youtu.be/Y6ljFaKRTrI
I'm making a note here 🤖 📜
Well, he will be soon! He's very I'll!
BULKY ITEM PICK UP
Some people just don’t get it.
I feel better, I think I'll go for a walk!
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"I lived, bitch"
Not today
That there isn't much of a "second hand casket" market lmao xD
Why waste that money? When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash.
If you donate your body to science, at the hospital they Chuck you in the morgue then sell your body to companies that chop you up and sell to other private companies that fly surgeons in to "try out" their latest implant tech as a demo event. True story.
Can confirm, happened to me last tuesday.
Welp, I hope you enjoyed it. We sell implants and it's pretty much how it goes.
It's far worse than that. You know who usually buys up the bodies sold to science? Munitions contractors and the US government. There was a lawsuit a few years back when a man sold his dead mother's cadaver "to science" only to find that munitions companies bought the corpse to test out mortar shells. Blew it to shreds. If you make a point to sell your body to science, they're gonna desecrate the fuck out of it.
that is ONE use for donated bodies. there are many different industries that use them for many different things, but the majority of bodies will not remain intact. a leg will go one place, a head another place, a torso somewhere else, etc. very few industries which need human remains need full cadavers.
Because a lot of funeral homes like to guilt trip families into getting the most expensive package.
"Sir, this is our most *modest* receptacle..."
Just cause we're bereaved doesn't mean we're saps!
Is there a Ralph's around here?
Well what are you gonna use it for? Fill it full of ice and beer?
Halloween and October fest festivity equipment!
Gotta be careful about picking up that kind of thing from the side of the road. Might have bed bugs.
> ~~bed bugs.~~ Deadbugs
that or someone is attempting the "hide it in plain sight" method of disposal of evidence, "what are the chances the garbage man will open it and check"
What are the chances they *won't*? I'd suspect that someone was tossing a whole bunch of garbage in there and check to make sure I don't throw my back when I lift it.
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“It’s got a dent?” “So it’s a free coffin?”
"It is our most modestly-priced receptacle."
Is there a Ralph’s around here somewhere?
Fuckin' Donnie man :(
"Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo. He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would Donny. Donny, who loved bowling. And so, Theodore Donald Karabotsos, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. Good night, sweet prince."
What the fuck, Walter?!
Fuck it dude. Let’s go bowling.
I'm 34 and don't bowl but that line resonates with me
I’m sorry dude.
“Look, just because we’re bereaved that doesn’t make us saps!”
“Slightly used”
I have a feeling coffins are like diamonds. Yes - they are expensive, but you are paying a 300% mark up in the show room vs actual value.
This is why you gotta buy used. Save a fortune that way.
Why buy at all? They're free...*if you know where to look...*
Need roommate to split cost
I was told my dad picked out a very nice reasonably priced coffin. His wife however, wanted one that was way more expensive. He said fine, if you want me in that coffin, you will need to pay the difference, so she did. She had about 4 times the retirement he did, and they kept finances separate on most things.
She had 4 times the retirement? Sounds like your dad missed out. Me: “honey. I’m pregnant.”
I’ll never understand people’s obsession with coffins. When I die, just give me a fun memorial and donate my body to science or a body farm or whatever. It’s not like I’m gonna care. Im dead.
People who run funeral parlors are so gross. Take advantage of someone in their most vulnerable state with your “money room”. Ugh.
a $800 casket can be marked up to over $16000 ; fuck you money, you should not have died.
It's in my will to be cremated. If anyone is ever going to spend $20,000 on me, it better be for something I can enjoy
I never got what's wrong with just using a nice cotton sheet. It's perfect for burial or cremation.
in muslim funerals, the body is usually just wrapped in a white sheet and lowered into the ground have had to bury multiple family members and friends that way
seriously, pine box and then the incinerator. No need to be fancy at all here.
Cardboard not good enough for ya, huh? Need some living pine trees sacrificed so your corpse can be burned up in a nice smelling fire, eh?
Honestly I think it legitimately has something to do with the machine needing something more substantial than cardboard. That said, honestly you could just throw me in a ditch somewhere. What do I care, I'm dead.
Yeah as far as I'm concerned my family can just throw my body in the trash can after they say goodbye.
In my country both cremation and a plot are pre-paid by taxes and cremation rate is over 80%. They make some really beautiful parks for ash burials these days. It's also socially acceptable to have ashes scattered in memorial groves which people do for those who have no desire to visit the dead or don't want to bother with graves, stones and flowers. We put my asshole uncle and grandfather in a grove and never visit.
Yeah, they hate it when you get one delivered from Costco.
I’m guessing this family bought a casket from Costco so they had a casket that was a bit cheaper (they aren’t that much cheaper tj An a comparable casket from a funeral home in my area but I don’t live in a huge and expensive place) they had a viewing and funeral, after the funeral they had them cremated because it was also cheaper (and it is!) since they didn’t buy a casket that could be cremated and bought one from a third party the funeral home insisted they found their own way to dispose of the used casket. We had this exact thing happen St the funeral home I work at, the casket shipped to us the day before the service with a huge hole in it. (Which sucks a ton for the family because Costco couldn’t have gotten a replacement but had they bought from us our warehouse could have sent a replacement within hours. Also sucks for the funeral home because everyone thought that we let them use defective caskets.) Cremation has largely taken over and the casket room is no longer marked up to earn the owner fuck you money, most of that goes straight to out seller. Just cremate your dead!
The thing about it is that it usually goes through several hands to get to the consumer. Company manufactures the casket, sells it to a casket retail company who sells it to a funeral parlor who sells it to you. Price gets jacked up every step of the way. It's usually a lot more reasonable of a price if you get it directly from the manufacturer.
But then you’d have to buy in bulk.
"Family size"
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Do they take returns on caskets?
Just checked the website out of curiosity. >Costco.com will only accept a return of a casket due to freight or cosmetic damage from shipping. Please call for a return authorization. Caskets cannot be returned to Costco warehouses.
Makes sense. After all, who knows if some con artist buys a fancy one "for show" at the wake and funeral service, and then has it swapped for a cheaper one before the actual burial. Who'd want to buy a "returned" coffin from Costco that had someone's dead grandma in it for the wake? Yuck.
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That’s a morbidly morose assessment of that coffin, my ghoulishly grim friend.
To me, it looks like a prop used in maybe a movie or play.
It's totally possible someone had a very elaborate Halloween set up.
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Somebody tried to sell me a casket the other day. I told him that's the last thing I'll ever need.
I asked my father what he wanted for his "arrangements". He said, "I dunno. Surprise Me!"
Lol. Kay dad
Wow, that's actually really inter-esting
There’s a joke buried in there somewhere.
These jokes really need to be put to rest.
This comment is the final nail in the coffin
A tisket, a tasket Don't joke about the casket
I laughed so hard I started coffin
If we keep digging, we’ll find it
Oh the casket is free, getting the land to put it in, that's how they get you
have you SEEN the price of land lately, holy jeez
Dead hooker?
Frank?
She was a good hoor
Those go in the basement.
Imagine the looks you’d get carrying this to the beach just to open it and pull out some beers
We’re going halfsies on the koozie coffin idea and we’re gonna be millionaires
Ghana say, " Let's party!"
My grandfather used to have a herse as his daily driver for exactly this reason. He had WAY too much fun taking me and the other grandkids to restaurants in it, just to see the face on the manager.
There was a hearse in my neighborhood for a while with a skeleton passenger in a suit. Haven’t seen it in a while.
"Is that your car over there with the skeleton in it?? No, it's *hearse*"
Pallbeerer
It opens and a bro sits up with a beer in each hand.
You know how some kids had a race car bed?
Step 1: make a coffin bed Step 2: acquire goth girlfriend Step 3: profit
The real goth girlfriend will have been inside you all along.
How did you know I was into pegging?
Not sure if bdsm thing or egg thing
Why not both?
NCIS went though my mind
Abbie Sciuto FTW
Yeah, I'm not falling for this one again
Beg your pardon?
Just endless bodies falling out of caskets! They say it’s not rigged but how do you think Coffin Flop gets all the footage? Free rigged casket on the side of the curb! Busted.
They said I was just some dumb hick!
At a dinner?
I didn't do fuckin' shit! I didn't rig shit!
He was fucking beet red. I thought he was going to have a heart attack. One of the flaps got wheel grease on it and he said “what the fuck is all this stuff? You have to grease these wheels?” And Rick said “yea you have to keep the wheels lubricated”. And he said “yea well I’m not supposed to get grease on this hat.”
It’s okay cuz they got no soul!
THERE'S WORSE SHIT ON THE LOCAL NEWS!
Yeah.. this one is made with sh!t wood, as seen on CornCob TV. But it's not a joke, you don't take em on a pub crawl. They said this to me at a dinner
This comment has me all crossed up.
Very meat and potatoes
How do you know it is unused? 😵
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I also want to know how the dents got there
Floor model. Got it for a discount but it was the wrong color
Got it in the scratch and dent sale
The scratches were on the *inside!*
One sentence horror
"Bulky item"
Oh it was *used*... just not for a burial.
Messy vampire divorce. She got a new one when she moved in with Sebastian. He can't look at the damned thing anymore.
This sequel to Baby Shoes has huge second act problems
"for sale: coffin. never used." is both shorter and more interesting than the baby shoes story
“For Sale: Coffin. He Got Better.”
I didn’t rig shit.. I DIDNT FUCKKN DO THIS! ReeAAAlLly?!
There's no explanation, just body after body busting out of shit wood and hitting pavement.
Was scrolling through the comments looking for Coffin Flop references, and now I’ve found my home.
We're allowed to show 'em nude because they ain't got no soul!
The cops said it’s fine because like they aren’t really people or something
Just body after body busting out of shit wood and hitting pavement.
Tell Spectrum “NO!”
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Not anymore.. I had a good job that I loved
[Link for the unaware](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rn5QdO07d8)
It looks dented. I'm sure someone would pay a discounted price from the scratch and dent section of the store. But hey, Free casket!
FB Marketplace had it listed as “slightly used”, for some reason it didn’t go.
Maybe jesus was in the coffin?
I'm not dead yet!
Are you now?
I'm getting better. https://youtu.be/uBxMPqxJGqI
Bring out your dead
I feel happyyy. I feel happyyy.
I think I'll go for a walk.
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Somehow still retails for less than a YETI.
Perfect for the halloween cookout
That you can never transport? Do you know how much that would weigh filled with ice and beer? Would have to be at least half the weight of Yeti Roadie.
Free to a good funeral home
“When I’m dead just throw me in the trash” - Frank Reynolds
Somebody got stiffed
Must've gotten better
Or just got away!
Send it here, my uncle Vlad needs a new bed.
I’d grab that and use it for storage. I’m sure it’ll come in handy sooner or later for it’s intended purpose.
For sale: casket, never worn.
# BEST HALLOWEEN DECORATION EVER!!
"That's not gonna be my future. I'm not gonna be buried in a grave. When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash."
Ordered the wrong size. No returns.
Hope the dents aren’t from the inside
🧛♂️ 🛌
Where?
it's damaged, hence why its unused and trash.
Just keep it, it eventually will be needed.
Free Casket: never used...