Corpse stalls traffic on Texas highway

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2005

CHICAGO (AFP) — A corpse caused a traffic jam on a Dallas, Texas, highway after it fell off a pickup truck late Tuesday, local media reported.

The body was being transported to a Shreveport, Louisiana funeral home when it fell off the truck and landed in the fast lane, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday.

Wrapped in a sheet and still strapped to a gurney, the body looked like a large white parcel from afar, Mary Ellen Douglas told the Morning News.

But as she switched lanes to avoid the gurney, Douglas said she spotted feet sticking out from the sheets.

"I didn't think it was possible for that to happen," Douglas said. "I wanted to get out of there. It was too freaky for me."

It took a while for the driver to notice the body was...