News From The Bottom Of The Barrel: Man Fakes His Own Death

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A Brazilian man sparked the outrage of his friends and family after he faked his death out of pure curiosity, to see who would attend his funeral.  As an experienced ‘ceremonialist‘, a sort of master of ceremonies for various kinds of events, 60-year-old Baltazar Lemos had conducted hundreds of funerals, some of which had been attended by as few as 2 people, others by as many as 500. Recently, he had been thinking about how many of his friends and family would come to pay their respects and bid him farewell when he died, and since he couldn’t really know if he actually kicked the bucket, he decided to fake his death and see how many people showed up to his funeral…AND in Other News! A 30-year-old man in Tacoma, Washington was arrested last Thursday after he caused a huge fire. He pulled up in a stolen vehicle . . . and tried to siphon gas from another vehicle . . . while smoking a cigarette.


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