'Grim Eater' Banned From Funerals [He Had Backpack With TupperWare Containers]

Telegraph(UK) ^ | June 04, 2010 | Paul Chapman

[Steelfish]

'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 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.

[momto6]

In the small town you are guaranteed to know the guest of honor or at least a close family member. If I went to all the funerals of the people I know in my area I wouldn’t have time to work.

[MotleyGirl70]

Kramer: With Tupperware you just assume!