1277 Free-mains

Is there no morality left? Have we no decency, no taste? Two stories recently point out how low we can go. Somewhere along the line remains have become free-mains.
The first story is about the guards sent to guard the remains of the Polish dignitaries who crashed in Russia recently. The guards stole credit cards from the corpses and charged up a bunch of stuff. I guess figuring they needed to do it quickly before the banks caught on the purported chargers were dead.
Identity theft is bad enough. Identity theft while the identity is only freshly un-identitied is cold indeed. I hope the guards didn’t use the cards to buy something nice for their wives...
The next story is even weirder. The news services are calling it the story of the Grim Eater. Seems this guy in New Zealand went from wake to wake, funeral to funeral, and ate the free food.
Free-mains indeed.
He went up to four times a week. He wasn’t caught till one of the funeral directors dug out the secret and uncovered it to his fellows in the field.
I don’t know. Filching free food from a funeral. Poor taste? You bet. But dangerous too. Food like that rarely has an expiration date...
Which may explain why the guy also took food home in, as the news article put it, Tupperware containers. Or possibly generic plastic storage containers of some sort. As you can imagine, Tupperware is less than pleased their brand is being associated with memorial mooching.
Although I remember going to one Tupperware party during the Hungarian food fad days and being told it was great for storing goulash.
There’s certainly something ghoul-ash about the Grim Eater.
America, ya gotta love it.