Anybody pick up on the article / Obit on a Soul singer from South Carolina, James Hines?

The Metero ran a column this morning about the Undertaker who shortened (sawed off his feet at the Calf ) the 6ft, 7in Soul Singer to get him in a regular size coffin, the family obviously noticed at the funeral that the coffin was a foot or so short and the body has since been exhumed and the Undertaker ordered to foot the bill and has since been closed...

You could not make that up could you.. strangest story I've heard in a long while....

Anybody know any of this mans music?

Malcolm

Link to the Metro Online:

https://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article....p;in_page_id=64

Edited June 4, 200915 yr by Mal.C.

and the blurd below:

An unlicensed worker, Charles G. Cave, cut the legs with an electric saw without consulting relatives.

Mr Hines' widow has said his legs had been cut off between the ankle and calf and put back in the coffin, but the document didn't detail exactly what happened.

Evidence also has been turned over to criminal investigators, but prosecutor Duffie Stone didn't return a message Tuesday.

Under South Carolina law, destroying or desecrating human remains is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Mr Hines, 60, died in October 2004 of skin cancer, and his family picked out a standard-sized casket at the funeral home.

His wife, Ann Hines, said her husband's body was only shown from the chest up at his funeral. And no one suggested a longer casket.

Ann Hines said rumors about what happened to her husband's body started spreading soon after he was buried.

Hines, an albino black man with several modest hits in the 1970s as a soul and funk guitarist with J. Hines and the Boys, was well-known in the town of 3,700 people.

He became a preacher later in his life, playing his guitar during services at the church he built and on a nearby Christian radio station until his death.

The widow threatened to sue Cave Funeral Home and the business agreed to settle out of court as long as she did not tell anyone how much she received.

Ann Hines said workers never told her what happened or apologised.

Authorities eventually caught wind of the rumour, leading a funeral service board investigator and county coroner to exhume Hines' body.

The board also fined Cave $500 and ordered him to pay $1,500 for the investigation.

J Hines & the Boys had 3 documented releases on Nationwide, a NY label and 1 documented release on Roadway, a S Carolina label.

That undertaker didn't have a leg to stand on...he should toe the line in future

You can read more about J Hines if you click here.

That undertaker didn't have a leg to stand on...he should toe the line in future

LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SHIN CAST THE FIRST STONE

Anybody pick up on the article / Obit on a Soul singer from South Carolina, James Hines?

The Metero ran a column this morning about the Undertaker who shortened (sawed off his feet at the Calf ) the 6ft, 7in Soul Singer to get him in a regular size coffin, the family obviously noticed at the funeral that the coffin was a foot or so short and the body has since been exhumed and the Undertaker ordered to foot the bill and has since been closed...

You could not make that up could you.. strangest story I've heard in a long while....

Anybody know any of this mans music?

Malcolm

Link to the Metro Online:

https://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article....p;in_page_id=64

I seriously hope you meant this pun

Malc Burton

Anybody pick up on the article / Obit on a Soul singer from South Carolina, James Hines?

The Metero ran a column this morning about the Undertaker who shortened (sawed off his feet at the Calf ) the 6ft, 7in Soul Singer to get him in a regular size coffin, the family obviously noticed at the funeral that the

coffin was a foot or so short

and the body has since been exhumed and the Undertaker ordered to foot the bill and has since been closed...

You could not make that up could you.. strangest story I've heard in a long while....

Anybody know any of this mans music?

Malcolm

Link to the Metro Online:

https://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article....p;in_page_id=64

Two feet short actually.

LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SHIN CAST THE FIRST STONE

Did you really KNEEd to say that? I bet you feel a bit of a heel.

Oh well, the thigh's the limit!

I'll get me coat.