01-18-2009, 09:53 PM
SyberBitch Wrote:Sinister Wrote:Sure... it's a funeral thread. I think it's pretty awesome that they lowered the coffin themselves. That's a heavy job (figuratively and literally).SyberBitch Wrote:Want to hear the story? It's pretty fucking outstanding. I wouldn't trade being a Biker for love or money.Sinister Wrote:The MC members carried the coffin themselves and lowered it into the grave themselves and wouldn't let the cemetary workers near their Brother. You'll never see as moving an experience till you have seen a Biker funeral.Aww... sounds like a close-knit group. Very cool of them to be so protective of their own.
The pack of bikes from the service to the cemetary was loooooooong. We had many tailgunners to block intersections so we could all pass as a single group.
When we got to the cemetary, they opened the hearse and there was no rolling trolley involved; the Brothers of the Club carried Keg by hand. The ironic part is, Keg died on his 44th birthday and the numbers 44 signify the Club he rode with.
So while we were all gathering around the tent to hear the service, all the 44 members kept shouting Happy Birthday, Keg!!!! After the service the coffin needed to be carried to the grave that had been dug. The members of the Club would not allow the cemetary workers near the coffin and carried it down the hill - about 100 yards - themselves. They carefully lowered the coffin to the ground, spilling John Daniels onto the coffin and yelling Happy Birthday!!!
Then the cemetary crew came up to fill the grave and had the shovels promptly removed from their hands. All of us got to throw a shovel-full of dirt onto Keg's coffin and we laid him to rest ourselves. We didn't want the help of the strangers.
RIP Keg.....GBNF.