Dad In A Can

You know, I have mementos around the house from my Grandmother and my Mom. Little things that remind me of them, I suspect most people have similar things, just little keepsakes. I never considered keeping the ultimate keepsake, though.

The entire dead body. In a wheeled garbage can.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man delivered his dead father's decaying corpse to a police station Monday saying he had kept the body hidden in a rubbish bin for months for financial reasons, police said.

The 45-year-old arrived at a police station in the western town of Viersen in the early hours of Monday with his father's body in a wheeled rubbish bin, Wolfgang Wiese, a spokesman for Viersen police, told Reuters.

The man told police his father had died in May aged 84. He had kept the death quiet because of financial problems and had hidden the corpse in the garbage container.

Now personally, I have no interest in what my descendants do with my remains after I'm gone. I won't be needing them at that point. But this seems more than a tad disrespectful. Couldn't he at least have gotten a nice trunk or something?