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30 September 2008

Most specific (also tragic) tombstone ever? →[More:]Here's the text:

LOST LIFE BY STAB IN FALLING ON
INK ERASER, EVADING SIX YOUNG
WOMEN TRYING TO GIVE HIM
BIRTHDAY KISSES IN OFFICE
METROPOLITAN LIFE BUILDING

Apparently, the kid was an office boy working on his 15th birthday (PDF).
Must have been a Monday. (via)

post by: Atom Eyes at: 12:23 | 13 comments

That's hilarious. (I get a kick out of unusual tombstones.)

posted by sperose 30 September | 12:28

Never again.

posted by Hellbient 30 September | 12:56

My father went the same way.

posted by jrossi4r 30 September | 13:01

Is this one of those church sign things?

posted by StickyCarpet 30 September | 13:25

I guess we know which six his family employed as the pallbearers.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 30 September | 13:34

Wow.

Guys, read the PDF. That is so sad. His mom was a widow.

posted by bunnyfire 30 September | 13:47

No, but this is...
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posted by wendell 30 September | 13:48

Here comes Debbie Downer...

That's totally Photoshopped.

...There goes Debbie Downer

posted by mudpuppie 30 September | 13:59

I like this.
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posted by seanyboy 30 September | 14:40

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Poor guy.

posted by Hellbient 30 September | 16:11

I made alot of deals in my life, but I went in the hole on this one

posted by ColdChef 30 September | 16:53

That was a sad story. Poor kid. His mom must have been heartbroken.

I do love reading tombstones!!

posted by redvixen 30 September | 18:40

The Wikipedia article on the ink eraser (basically a pocket knife, sometimes folding, used to scrape ink off the page) cites this incident.

posted by stilicho 30 September | 23:24

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