Can Hearse Drivers Drink and Drive?

A hearse driver in Bogota failed to deliver a body to a waiting family last week because he stopped for a beer along the way.

The friends and family of Tito Vasquez waited for several hours last Sunday at the Campos de Cristo cemetery. They wanted to bury their deceased loved one but their plans were thwarted when the driver of the Cadillac hearse needed to stop for a beer.

The family could not understand what was taking so long because they had just seen the body at the funeral home earlier in the day. Eventually, the family was forced to reschedule the service for the next day. They decided to change the service after reporting Mr. Vasquez’s body as missing with the local police department.

Later, police found the body still in the hearse which was parked at the El Imperio motel. That’s where the driver stopped for his beer and that’s as far as he got.

Don’t stories like this make you mad? I know they make me mad. I mean, couldn’t the driver wait until after the service to stop for his beer or anything else for that matter? But instead, he keeps a grieving family waiting at the burial site for hours and hours. I hope they took this guy’s credentials away so he can no longer drive hearses in the funeral industry.