[mick.idgaf]

Tickle, tickle went the Mortician.​

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[Buchanfarmer]

No use tickling my feet - they have been numb since about 2010 caused by my spine degrading cutting off the nerves spinal degeneration the Professor said - so I can proudly put up my hand saying I an a degenerate

 

[Brassmonkey1938]

Aha! Now I understand about the mortician's test tickles.

 

[SM17453]

True story. When I joined the Victoria Police in 1971, police had to perform night shift security at the old morgue located on the Flinders Street Extension - a gloomy part of town at the time. This was a 'one-up' shift (on your own). The year before, a member was doing his foot patrol of the morgue when all of a sudden a body sat up on one of the gurneys. Story has it that the member didn't stop running until he reached Russell Street HQ, some four miles away. And it turned out that the 'body' was indeed alive.

 

[Staffordshire Whippet]

That's not too wide of the mark.
One of the tests we used, back in the day, to assess whether someone was genuinely comatose, was to use tweezers to pull a hair out of the victim's calf. If they flinched, they were faking it.

 

[Jarred Santos]

True story. When I joined the Victoria Police in 1971, police had to perform night shift security at the old morgue located on the Flinders Street Extension - a gloomy part of town at the time. This was a 'one-up' shift (on your own). The year before, a member was doing his foot patrol of the morgue when all of a sudden a body sat up on one of the gurneys. Story has it that the member didn't stop running until he reached Russell Street HQ, some four miles away. And it turned out that the 'body' was indeed alive.

I feel for the bloke, but I can't help but feel for the officer replacing him, too If someone told me the person before me saw a 'corpse' sit up, I'd move heaven and earth to be assigned some place else!

 

[bluetang]

A wake after a funeral was to see if the corpse was alive. A tube with a bell attached so the corpse could ring,
if alive. Very macarbe, but people have been buried alive because they were in a comma. Hence the expression "for whom the bell tolls".

 

[Mark K]

That's the problem with the morgue. It is so popular that people are just dying to get in there.

 

[Gideon]

 

[wiskers50]

Nothing worse when you go to lift a body and the skin slips