What did you do WITH your Ranger today?

[Fawnbuster]

I'm glad you added the last part because otherwise that would've been creepy. lol ?

Me too Dave!

One summer night I backed up one of my guys on a traffic stop about 3am, brand new cargo van with a paper plate, speeding. My deputy was busy talking to the driver about his speed, looking at his gun permit , I was on the passenger side, looked on the floor and there's a deceased person wrapped up on the floor. I saw a mortuary paper / tag laying on the floor, I motioned to my deputy hey ask him about the dead body in the back... the driver laid his head on the steering wheel and my deputies eyes went wide open, I think I even heard something pucker lol. Turns out the kind lady had passed in Evansville that night and was donating her body to science and the driver was transporting her to the IU school of medicine at a facility downtown. After he cut the van loose my deputy laughed and said "Lt you did that on purpose, that was funny, you got me" ?

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[Nollie]

What was your tire pressure? I see those 118’s, do you think the higher load range would have prevented this?

I was running 25 on the trail, kind of mid range. Yeah, these are C rated; I do wonder if E rated would've had the same issue. If it happens again I'll probably explore E rated... hoping it was just a very odd unlikely occurance.

 

[JohnnyO]

I'm glad you added the last part because otherwise that would've been creepy. lol ?

Normally use the funeral home van but I was already out in my truck.

 

[JohnnyO]

Me too Dave!

One summer night I backed up one of my guys on a traffic stop about 3am, brand new cargo van with a paper plate, speeding. My deputy was busy talking to the driver about his speed, looking at his gun permit , I was on the passenger side, looked on the floor and there's a deceased person wrapped up on the floor. I saw a mortuary paper / tag laying on the floor, I motioned to my deputy hey ask him about the dead body in the back... the driver laid his head on the steering wheel and my deputies eyes went wide open, I think I even heard something pucker lol. Turns out the kind lady had passed in Evansville that night and was donating her body to science and the driver was transporting her to the IU school of medicine at a facility downtown. After he cut the van loose my deputy laughed and said "Lt you did that on purpose, that was funny, you got me" ?

Luckily where I work now we use a removal service (the technical term for picking up deceased folks is a "removal") and I don't have to go pick up people myself. When my phone rings in the middle of the night I call someone else and go back to sleep. ? I live in western PA where the biggest traffic hazard is deer. I'd be out in the middle of the night on some back road where I could do 55 or 60 but I'd be going 35 in case a deer ran out in front of me. Wreck the van when I have someone in the back and I'm screwed. The vast majority of people die in their sleep in nursing homes in the middle of the night and nursing homes don't have morgues so you have to get them right now. Hospitals have morgues so it can wait until morning.

It's been, shall we say, a busy week and it was easier to casket folks at the funeral home instead of the cremation facility. I was near the crematory anyway so grabbed two cremation caskets to take to the funeral home.

 

[dapakattack]

Took two cremation caskets to the funeral home...

Who knew that even in death, one's political leanings were so evident?

What did the bottom deceased say to the top deceased? "I hope this tailgate has a damper!"

 

[TVRangerSTX]

Who knew that even in death, one's political leanings were so evident?

What did the bottom deceased say to the top deceased? "I hope this tailgate has a damper!"

Funny...but I still don't understand what a "cremation casket" is, looks like a cardboard box? My dad was cremated and resides in a bronze urn in Arlington...that's my grandson's hand, he never knew my dad, but he did visit Arlington to see him ?

 

[Glocker]

Funny...but I still don't understand what a "cremation casket" is, looks like a cardboard box? My dad was cremated and resided in a bronze urn in Arlington...

I imagine it's what the deceased is placed in before they go into the cremation oven instead of a conventional casket.

 

[FireSpark]

Traded in the stock Grey V spokes for some new shoes and rubber.
Just a slight rub at clock when backing up until the intrusion bars get here next week.
Stayed with Cooper but switched out the Evolution M/T (crappy on wet Texas roads) to the new Rugged Trek.
Both 265/75 R17.
Loving the KMC Dirty Harry wheels.

 

[dondonbabyraptor]

Took two cremation caskets to the funeral home. They’re unoccupied.

Oddly enough, never knew they looked like any other box. Can you get uhh.. decorated cremation boxes, kind of like adding a sport package to the truck for an additional net price cost of $795?

 

[Scott D]

Another Friday, another chance to get the Ranger out.

Went a couple towns over to get my haircut, get breakfast at McDonalds. (Sausage/cheese biscuit FTW) and pick up a couple things for the lovely wife at the Walmart.

This is not my usual Walmart, but I still found the perfect parking spot, lol.

October 3rd will be the Ranger's first birthday and it looks like I will putting roughly 2K a year on it.

 

[dondonbabyraptor]

Another Friday, another chance to get the Ranger out.

Went a couple towns over to get my haircut, get breakfast at McDonalds. (Sausage/cheese biscuit FTW) and pick up a couple things for the lovely wife at the Walmart.

This is not my usual Walmart, but I still found the perfect parking spot, lol.

October 3rd will be the Ranger's first birthday and it looks like I will putting roughly 2K a year on it per year.

Happy early birthday! Wow, 2k only? Your insurance rates must be super low.

 

[bfastr]

Got blasted in the tailgate by a lifted Chevy 2500HD pulling a 30 foot camper, following too close and going to fast when cars in front of me

Man that sucks.. I feel your pain, although my damage is pretty much just a bumper and hitch plus some plastic bits. What is going on with all the sudden a bunch of us are getting hit or backing into things!! its not like the Ranger has invisible brake/tail lights !!!

 

[dondonbabyraptor]

Man that sucks.. I feel your pain, although my damage is pretty much just a bumper and hitch plus some plastic bits. What is going on with all the sudden a bunch of us are getting hit or backing into things!! its not like the Ranger has invisible brake/tail lights !!!

I wonder if Tyger hitch armor would of saved your slight bumper hitch damage or would of caused structural frame damage to you or the other. What do you think?

 

[JohnnyO]

I imagine it's what the deceased is placed in before they go into the cremation oven instead of a conventional casket.

Funny...but I still don't understand what a "cremation casket" is, looks like a cardboard box? My dad was cremated and resides in a bronze urn in Arlington...that's my grandson's hand, he never knew my dad, but he did visit Arlington to see him ?

Laws vary by state but in Pennsylvania the deceased must be in a combustible container of some type. Most of the time we use the heavy cardboard cremation containers in the picture but there are other options.

 

[JohnnyO]

Oddly enough, never knew they looked like any other box. Can you get uhh.. decorated cremation boxes, kind of like adding a sport package to the truck for an additional net price cost of $795?

Pretty much, yes. These are for direct cremation where there is no public viewing, we also have a cardboard viewing casket for brief family viewings, most people who have a traditional public viewing use a rental casket where the inside slides out after the funeral and goes to the crematory and the shell goes back on the shelf, and there are specific cremation caskets that are made of wood with minimal metal and designed for minimal residue and the whole casket goes into the retort (i.e. oven). Most of the folks I get opt for the lowest cost.

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