the formerly longest undefended border

What is the winner now?

Hey, we could share a car!

We totally could!

Damn.

KEY WEST, Fla. -- A laid-off funeral home worker was arrested for allegedly arranging phony funerals that included carrying caskets in a sport utility vehicle and having his girlfriend act as a priest.

John Peffer had arranged two burials and two cremations for which the families paid him over $22,000 before he was arrested this week in Ohio, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Thursday.

His former employer, Dean Lopez Funeral Home, discovered the problem and notified police after a hospice requested a death certificate related to one of the cases.

Bob Dean said Peffer had been a good employee but was laid off last fall because of budget cuts at his family-run funeral home.

According to the sheriff's department, before Peffer left in mid-October, the 38-year-old forwarded one of the office phone to his cell phone and took calls. He even set up a Web site advertising a business he called Paradise Mortuary. Dean discovered the problem about 10 days after Peffer left, the department said.

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I'd be pissed if I was cheated out of a ride in the back of a hearse....

I traded some coke, good beer and some tylenol with codeine for some cask reserve single malt scotch (restricted in Canada) last summer and both parties were quite happy with the exchange.

Just wait till the Ottawa Vice guys show up in their pastel parkas and souped-up snowmobiles to nab you.

t the above is spoof, and my fine Canadian friends don't have to come down here to pummel me. Or, call first, and I'll make reservations at a restaurant so we can have a good visit too

sarameg at least IS very charming!

You are trusting my strange coworkers on this....

I love it when a plan comes together and I don't have to pick the restaurant....

I traded some coke, good beer and some tylenol with codeine for some cask reserve single malt scotch (restricted in Canada) last summer and both parties were quite happy with the exchange.

Man you totally made out!

Just wait till the Ottawa Vice guys show up in their pastel parkas and souped-up snowmobiles to nab you.

Not that far from the truth, actually ... about the Ottawa cops, that is. I've never been nabbed by Sergeant Crockett of the Northwest.

The bar here

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seems like it would be a good place to have a quiet chat. And it's a beautiful place. A bit of a hike up from the harbor if you're walking but not too bad. It's a straight shot up Charles from the Harbor. And there's a parking lot next door.

Which hotel is it?

Man you totally made out!

Well, afterwards, there was a little smooch ... oh, yeah it was a good deal too. It was The Macallan. That stuff is like Instant De-stressing Elixir.

It was fair, though. I was the one transporting pseudo-contraband across an international border, and I was bringing good beer to a busy campsite.

I had all the risk. My compadre had just to avoid cracking the seal on the scotch until I got there (no small feat, I agree).

Hey, I know these hammies! I can vouch for their cuteness in person as well as online.