Ok I knew Daytona was weird…
From WFTV.com the Orlando TV station regarding our Local Baseball Team Daytona Cubs:
Daytona Baseball Team Giving Away Custom Funeral In Essay Contest
POSTED: 11:21 am EDT May 7, 2004
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — When the Big Umpire in the Sky calls you out for the final time, a minor league baseball team wants to send you to the showers in style.
The Daytona Cubs of the Class-A Florida State League are giving away a custom funeral to a fan who wins an essay contest. Contestants simply have to describe their perfect burial services in two pages or less.
Assistant General Manger Bill Papierniak tried the promotion last year with the Hagerstown (Md.) Suns. It generated almost 1,000 entries, and the winner was a World War II veteran who described the fellow servicemen he wished could have attended his funeral.
Not all the entries were so solemn.
“We had people who wanted to be buried with vats of beer,” Papierniak said.
The contest runs through July 24 and will be judged by a four-person panel from the Cubs and Pinello Funeral Home.
Papierniak said the funeral with all the trimmings is currently valued at $5,000-$7,000. Even if the cost skyrockets, the prize has a lifetime warranty.
Third entry for today
lol I might have to enter that one. lmao
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LOL wtf?
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Okay, now I KNOW Florida is weird, had a feeling about it before (I have a friend that lives down in Naples) but now I know for sure! 🙂 Happy Early Mother’s Day!
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weird! lol =)
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Remind me to stay in Georgia! *hugs* Daytona is weirder than I thought!
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vats of beer? LMAO…….2 pages??? geez, YOU ARE DEAD PEOPLE..WHO CARES!!!!!
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Kind of a morbid competion!
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That’s funny! But healthy, in its own way.
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That is just to strange. Who wants to think about something like that?
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So weird…!
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