A brief AP story included in today's San Jose Mercury News tells the story of a Johannesburg, South Africa man who found himself in a perplexing situation.
Apparently, the man had been given up for dead and, reasonably enough, an undertaker sent the corpse to the city's morgue. The only problem was that he wasn't dead.
Around 21 hours later, the "dead man" pulled a Lazarus. According to the AP story, he "started yelling, prompting morgue workers to run away in fear." Eventually, the shouter was removed from the fridge and discharged by medical officials "who deemed (the man) stable."
The bureaucrats had the final word on the matter. A Johannesburg health official, presumably with a straight face, "urged South Africans to call on health officials to confirm their relatives are really dead."
The poster promotes the 1943 Jacques Tourneur film I Walked With a Zombie.
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