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To: Poet who wrote (19163)	2/21/2000 7:45:00 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 63513

& for some weird today: What's a body to do with an unwanted casket? 02/19/2000 CAROL ROBINSON News staff writer Goodwill Industries worker Teresa Bynum had just one question for Jimmy Sims when he drove up to the donation drop-off port Friday morning with a casket strapped to the back of his truck. "Is it empty?" she asked. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All about Alabama -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Of course, Sims said. And brand new to boot. Sims, a colorful if unconventional Birmingham police lieutenant, ended up with the casket after a squabble over a burial policy. Not the type to back away from a fight, he didn't want that casket to go unused. So he took it to Goodwill. Workers there had seen people drive up with odd things before. There were the prosthetics - the wooden arms and legs. They'd even seen a donated stock option that could only be exercised if the moon was in a certain position. They'd never seen a casket. "We get all kinds of donations, but this really tops the list of the unusual," said Eugenia Evans, director of communications and development at Goodwill. "We'll try to sell it. Hopefully we'll get someone who is in need of a casket." Sims lost a family member in January. He couldn't access the several thousand dollars of burial benefits without accepting the casket, a coffin of lesser quality than he preferred. He bought a better casket and demanded his money back, but his request was refused. "So I said, 'Give me my casket,'" Sims said. "But then I didn't know what to do with it." (cont) al.com