How horrible is this?

I found this on my yahoo homepage. it's something you would expect to see in a movie, not really life.





Funeral horses stampede, overturn hearse Fri Feb 8, 11:41 AM ET





LONDON (Reuters) - A hearse overturned when the horses pulling it to a south London cemetery stampeded, dragging the carriage and coffin past appalled relatives and sending floral tributes flying.





"It was dreadful," a mourner told the South London Press. "The horses dragged the carriage to the cemetery on its side, tossing the coffin all over the place and destroying all the flowers inside.





"Some people got very angry and had to be restrained by other mourners... It is understandable given the circumstances. I'm horrified that something like this could happen."





Police were called to calm angry mourners so that the funeral last month could go ahead.





The carriage appeared to have clipped a mini-roundabout as it entered Lambeth Cemetery for the funeral, the local council which administ

How horrible is this?
Wow that is very disturbing , glad I wasn't there .
Reply:go with the Cadillac next time.
Reply:Whoa! Now that is very scary stuff. I have a vision of the casket breaking and the person falling out. There was a movie about that and that's what made me think of it. I pity the family. Terrible.
Reply:Get a hearse pulled by robots next time.
Reply:Well, as long as no one got hurt...these things happen. I mean, horses do sometimes panic, that's why people switched to cars. And since it's a Yahoo news story, good chance details have been exaggerated or omitted to make it more titillating. And I mean, the deceased is, um, dead...it's not like they're going to be upset. And heck, people will certainly remember the funeral.





Life is stranger than fiction. :)
Reply:wow that is really traumatizing



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