Man gave his hearse a smashing send off

A man made sure on Sunday morning that his hearse would rest in pieces. The man went to the Canadian Tire store on Quinpool Road in Halifax, Canada, at about 11 a.m. and purchased tools of destruction to trash his ride.



As the man left the store with a crowbar and sledgehammer, a witness said he declined a receipt by saying, “When I’m done with these, no one will want them back.” In the parking lot, the unidentified man started hammering on the hearse, which had a skull and crossbones front licence plate.

The bumpers were smashed off, the windows broken and holes punched in the vehicle’s side. The man was standing on the hearse’s roof with the sledgehammer when police arrived. Officers cuffed, questioned and then released the man.


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 Sgt. David Publicover of Halifax Regional Police said that as long as the man cleaned up the debris, police considered the matter closed because it was his vehicle and he was planning to get rid of it. “He had the salvage company on the way for it, so he wanted to get his licks in before it went,” Publicover said. “That’s pretty much it. He just wanted to give it a goodbye, I guess.”