Rude Awakening of the Day: An 80-year-old man who was though to have died of an asthma attack awoke 21 hours later to find himself locked inside a morgue fridge.
The 80-year-old man’s family had called for an undertaker to remove his body from their home following his apparent death. “When he got there, the driver examined the body, checked his pulse, looked for a heartbeat, but there was nothing,” said morgue owner Ayanda Maqolo.
When morgue workers heard shouts coming from one of the refrigerated compartments a day later, they thought it was a ghost. “I was also scared,” said Maqolo, “But they are my employees and I had to show them I wasn’t scared, so I called the police.” Maqolo waited for the police before reentering the morgue’s locker room. “I was glad they had their firearms,” he said, “in case something wanted to fight with us.”
The extremely confused man was taken to the hospital, where his was deemed stable enough for release. Health department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo took the opportunity to remind South Africans that it’s best to have a health official confirm a relative’s death before having them carted off to the funeral home.
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