Flash Your Tattoo

Wakes are not the most pleasant of times, but they can be a bit entertaining when your family decides to do an unusual and odd thing.  Shake things up a bit if you will.  When a Puerto Rican family made the arrangements for their 22 year old relative, who was murdered this past Thursday, they wanted to send him off by honoring the man’s passion. He loved to ride his motorcycle.   So after the funeral home embalmed his body, they dressed him in his jeans, propped some shades on his head and posed him on his Honda for the entire 3 day wake.  (continue reading…)

This is an old story that didn’t get a lot of publicity – it’s like something out of a twilight zone episode but I though it was worth bringing up for folks that didn’t catch the story when it originally came out.A 28 year old man getting a “Last Rites” tattoo on his arm in a Brooklyn shop got dizzy, fainted and fell head-first into a glass display case — slitting his throat and killing himself. (continue reading…)