Puerto Rican funeral home presents shooting victim on his motorcycle

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"If you thought you'd previously seen it all, well, you're wrong. Case in point: David Morales Colón, a 22-year-old Puerto Rican man who was shot to death last Thursday, and whose wake is now making headlines here in the United States mainland. How come? Well, suffice it to say that the funeral directors at Marin Funeral Home in San Juan's Hato Rey neighborhood have a flair for the unorthodox. For example, in 2008, they embalmed another young shooting victim and displayed his body standing up for the duration of a multi-day wake. Back to the present: Yesterday and today, callers who stopped to pay their final respects to the late Mr. Colón got a bit of a surprise. Instead of the traditional presentation of the body in a casket, Mr. Colón's corpse, dressed in casual duds and sunglasses, was instead posed in a very lifelike position atop his Repsol-liveried Honda CBR600 F4. According to Puerto Rico's Primera Hora newspaper, the motorcycle was given to the victim by his uncle, and upon Mr. Colón's untimely demise, family members delivered the bike to the funeral home specifically for this unusual wake. Lest you think this is some sort of insane hoax, here's the link to the local Primera Hora newspaper coverage, which features a multi-shot photo gallery, and here's the less detailed Associated Press wire version that's presently making the rounds. Finally, we've got a video posted after the jump. We'll say this: David Morales Colón rides into the afterlife in memorable style."

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/27/puerto-rican-funeral-home-presents-shooting-victim-on-his-motorc/

[Edited on April 28, 2010 at 3:01 PM. Reason : k]

4/28/2010 3:00:00 PM

oh my fucking god. that is... wow... that is exceptionally poor taste.

[Edited on April 28, 2010 at 3:01 PM. Reason : and funny, but i mean damn]

4/28/2010 3:01:15 PM

i hope my family loves doesn't hate me that much

4/28/2010 3:05:12 PM

4/28/2010 3:07:18 PM

haha...hmmm, i wonder how i would want to be posed if i did this...FUCKING BITCHES, THATS HOW!!!

probably playing foosball more like it

4/28/2010 3:07:36 PM

wow

4/28/2010 3:09:58 PM

nah, poor taste would have been if they mocked up the murder scene, complete with bullet holes and gore

4/28/2010 3:10:22 PM

when they were last in the news

for the guy standing up

i now have in my will that i want to be standing up at my wake

and everyone in the viewing line has to give my COLD DEAD HANDS a high five on their way by

one last one

for good times sake

4/28/2010 3:11:28 PM

4/28/2010 3:13:07 PM

^ i was gonna mention that similar situtation that was in the news a year or so ago with the guy standin up in the corner

that dude was also hispanic....

its one of those things that is probably cool in your head, but...nah you dont wanna really do that

nonetheless, you have to admire the skill of the morticians

[Edited on April 28, 2010 at 3:14 PM. Reason : c]

4/28/2010 3:14:14 PM

yeah i think it'd be sweet as shit

but in no way am i serious

4/28/2010 3:15:10 PM

I'd do it if I died before 35 or so

But after that I'd probably want to be taken a bit more seriously

4/28/2010 3:16:50 PM

id be mad as hell if i died and i found out my momma wanted my body propped up in a cage in full mount of some dummy DROPPIN LOADS

[Edited on April 28, 2010 at 3:17 PM. Reason : but its cool to think about ]

4/28/2010 3:16:54 PM