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    From the Daily Telegraph:
    'Grim eater' banned from funerals - Telegraph

    'Grim eater' banned from funerals

    A fake mourner dubbed "the Grim Eater", who gatecrashed funerals just to eat the food on offer, has been warned off by undertakers in New Zealand.

    By Paul Chapman in Wellington
    Published: 7:00AM BST 03 Jun 2010

    The man attended up to four funerals a week, even taking home leftovers in a "doggy bag" container. Danny Langstraat, a director of Harbour City Funeral Home in Wellington, said his company finally became so irritated with the intruder's behaviour that it took a photograph of him, which it distributed to its branch offices.

    The firm also alerted grieving families to his presence. "He was showing up to funeral after funeral and, without a doubt, he didn't know the deceased," Mr Langstraat said. "We saw him three or four times a week. "Certainly, he had a backpack with some Tupperware containers so, when people weren't looking, he was stocking up," he told the Dominion-Post newspaper.


    Mr Langstraat said the man, in his 40s, was respectably dressed and did not look like someone who lived on the streets. "He was always very quiet and polite, and did as the rest of the mourners did in paying his respects." The man has stopped turning up since a staff member took him aside and had a stern word in his ear, telling him he could not take food home.

    Tony Garing, president of the Funeral Directors Association, said it was difficult to stop people attending funerals. "If it's in a church, or even in a funeral home, if a notice has been published in the paper it's essentially a public event."

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    Next thing he will start killing people just to be able to go to their funerals.

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    Well it's not like the dead people are taking the food with them...

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    He probably just goes along for the mourning tea!

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    Illegal immigrant? ...an Ozzie!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascotkiwi View Post
    He probably just goes along for the mourning tea!
    Terrible humour you can have a green

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sdigit View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Ascotkiwi View Post
    He probably just goes along for the mourning tea!
    Terrible humour you can have a green
    Thank you!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon View Post
    Illegal immigrant? ...an Ozzie!

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    Fokin thief for sure. for sure.

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    sounds quite typical of kiwi land

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    He's Australian. Goes straight for the lamingtons. All of them.

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    Probabley got the idea from pattaya or phuket

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascotkiwi
    He's Australian. Goes straight for the lamingtons. All of them.
    That's because you stole the recipe! Lamingtons are OURS! Same goes for that Melba thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Ascotkiwi
    He's Australian. Goes straight for the lamingtons. All of them.
    That's because you stole the recipe! Lamingtons are OURS! Same goes for that Melba thing.
    You're thinking of Pavlova. Add to that Phar Lap, Russell Crowe (you can have him) Split Enz, Ed Hillary (he spent a weekend in Melbourne once) Ansett (oops)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascotkiwi
    Pavlova
    That's the sugar-bomb crap, thanks

    Quote Originally Posted by Ascotkiwi
    Russell Crowe
    Bloody rugby league nutt

    Quote Originally Posted by Ascotkiwi
    Ansett
    What AirNz did to Ansett was criminal . . . best international airline by a country mile . . . until you bastards scuppered them and left me with close to one million useless frequent flyer miles

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascotkiwi
    Ansett
    What AirNz did to Ansett was criminal . . . best international airline by a country mile . . . until you bastards scuppered them and left me with close to one million useless frequent flyer miles[/quote]
    Last edited by Ascotkiwi; 04-06-2010 at 02:02 PM.

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    and left me in Cairns with no easy way to get home to Brizzie plus a useless lifetime membership of the Golden Wing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascotkiwi
    and left me in Cairns with no easy way to get home to Brizzie plus a useless lifetime membership of the Golden Wing!
    Yup. Flew at least twice a month to Japan C-Class and all the other flights on ANA and SQ. Bastards . . . Ah, you're another Qld-Kiwi . . . Smart move.

    truth be told I really like NZ . . added to which Mrs Hat is a Kiwi . . . well, a naturalised one

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    Maybe he was just dead hungry

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    Wouldn't think it worth reporting as he's a Kiwi.

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    Great place to pickup flowers, I had that idea + the food a long time ago!

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Ascotkiwi
    and left me in Cairns with no easy way to get home to Brizzie plus a useless lifetime membership of the Golden Wing!
    Yup. Flew at least twice a month to Japan C-Class and all the other flights on ANA and SQ. Bastards . . . Ah, you're another Qld-Kiwi . . . Smart move.

    truth be told I really like NZ . . added to which Mrs Hat is a Kiwi . . . well, a naturalised one
    Yep. I'm from Ascot -Brisbane! Go the cane toads!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rascal View Post
    Great place to pickup flowers, I had that idea + the food a long time ago!
    Great place to pick up Chicks, second only to weddings.

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    dead fucks but

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascotkiwi View Post

    Yep. I'm from Ascot -Brisbane! Go the cane toads!
    Anthony st. years ago.

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