MACON, Ga. — The Macon County coroner said a woman stole a set of casket trucks from the front porch of a funeral parlor on Monday, according to Macon.com
Fair Haven Funeral Home in southern Bibb County was waiting for a casket delivery and left a set of casket trucks out on its front porch, according to the newspaper.
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Casket trucks are small, foldable carts used to push caskets around the funeral home and into the waiting hearse.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones told the outlet that the funeral home’s surveillance cameras captured a woman walk up to the front porch and take the trucks.
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Jones said the fact that the woman stole casket trucks is just bizarre.
“You can only sell those to another funeral home and if you wanted to use them to haul plywood, you would still have to hold it in place,” he said. “It doesn’t make sense why someone would steal a casket truck.”
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Jones has offered to pick the trucks up wherever the woman leaves them.
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