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Planning on dying? Not in this town your not.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:39 am
by Craig.
PAU, France (AFP) - The mayor of a French village has issued a decree banning residents from dying in his territory unless they own a spot in the overcrowded cemetery.


"It is forbidden for any person not having a plot in the cemetery ... to die on the territory of the village," the mayor of the southwestern village of Sarpourenx wrote in a decree that warned of "severe punishment" for offenders.

Mayor Gerard Lalanne told AFP he had taken the radical measure to protest against a legal ruling preventing him from enlarging the burial ground in the village of 260 people.

"The first dead person to come along, I'll send him to the state's representative," he said.

Lalane said he had been inspired by the mayor of another French village, Cugnaux, who had also outlawed death as a protest last year and who thus won the right to enlarge the village's cemetery

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080306/od ... athoffbeat

Aaah those wacky french ;D ;D ::)

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:54 am
by Fozzer
"It is forbidden for any person not having a plot in the cemetery ... to die on the territory of the village," the mayor of the southwestern village of Sarpourenx wrote in a decree that warned of "severe punishment" for offenders

Maybe he has "Cremation" in mind as a severe punishment?... ::)...!

Good Grief.. ;D...!

Paul... ;D...!

Blimey....and we are remotely related to the French!... :-[...!

... ;D...!

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:33 am
by expat
A decree that warned of "severe punishment" for offenders..........................So, a fate worse than a fate worse than death.

Matt

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:44 am
by Sir_Crashalot
A decree that warned of "severe punishment" for offenders..........................So, a fate worse than a fate worse than death.

Matt


According to a unknown French spokesperson:

They will be brought back to life by the infamous Monsieur Le Frankenstein and forced to listen to Britney Spears or Amy Whinehouse for eternity. Muhahahaha....

Crash ;)

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:24 am
by TSC.
They will be brought back to life by the infamous Monsieur Le Frankenstein and forced to listen to Britney Spears or Amy Whinehouse for eternity. Muhahahaha....

Crash ;)

Now that is a fate worse than death.  :o :o

;D

TSC.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:32 pm
by Craig.
A decree that warned of "severe punishment" for offenders..........................So, a fate worse than a fate worse than death.

Matt

Aaaah good old blackadder ;) ;D

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:44 pm
by Wii
wrote in a decree that warned of "severe punishment" for offenders.
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Over my dead body ;D

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:32 pm
by a1
Ahh the French...


That i just weird. ;D

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:36 pm
by Dr.bob7
the french scare me......

lol i agree with crash on the punishment

(thats pry what hell is like)

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:41 am
by Triple_7
When I'm on my death bed I want to be taken to one of those towns...what are they going to do after I die...Give me the death penalty :-/

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:01 am
by ozzy72
I'm sure loads of French people will now go there and try and die as an act of contempt ;D