David Kime had it his way. Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us. Life in the good old US of A is so surreal, you don’t have to make shit up to get a good laugh. Just report the reality. No this is not an Onion article. David didn’t like onions. This was truly an American funeral and another fine example of our doomed culture.
Funeral procession for Pennsylvania man stops at Burger King drive-thru
YORK, Pa. – Mourners at a Pennsylvania fast-food fan’s funeral wanted him to have it his way, so they arranged for his hearse — and the rest of the procession — to make one last drive-thru visit before reaching the cemetery.
David Kime Jr. “lived by his own rules,” daughter Linda Phiel said. He considered the lettuce on a burger his version of healthy eating, she said.
To give him a whopper of a send-off Saturday, the funeral procession stopped at a Burger King where each mourner got a sandwich for the road.
Kime got one last burger too, the York Daily Record reported. It was placed atop his flag-draped coffin at the cemetery.
Phiel said the display wasn’t a joke, rather a happy way of honoring her father and the things that brought him joy.
“He lived a wonderful life and on his own terms,” she said.
Kime, 88, a World War II veteran, died Jan. 20.
Restaurant manager Margaret Hess said she knew his face and his order. She and her crew made 40 burgers for the funeral procession.
“It’s nice to know he was a loyal customer up until the end — the very end,” she said.
JIMSKI says:
He would have stayed away from the fast food he could have lived to 89……….
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27th January 2013 at 9:39 am
flash says:
the greatest…LOL..
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27th January 2013 at 9:58 am
elby says:
My sister’s father in law had someone leave a tomato plant, in lieu of flowers, at his funeral. He loved gardening, and I thought that was the most touching memorial.
As far as this guy goes, well, he lived a long life, so I don’t begrudge his family their quirky send off. Now, if he had died at 35 from obesity related disease, not so much.
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27th January 2013 at 10:07 am
Chicago999444 says:
Maybe it’s a sign of cultural decay that fewer and fewer people every day spring for a traditional funeral and burial, but this guy looks like his people spent big on a traditional set up, casket, flowers, grave, and all.
I guess you all will think I’ve gone over to the dark side, but I’ve instructed all my people that if anything should befall me, CREMATE, and spread my ashes on Edgewater Beach in Chicago. Absolutely do NOT spend more that the $1000 or so the cremation costs from IL Cremation Society. You wouldn’t spend $10,000 on “bling” for me while I was alive, so please don’t do it when I’m dead. Everyone in my family cremates now. If you want to spend the dough, pass it to my favorite charities…. or just put it away. Have a “memorial” for me at my favorite hangout.
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27th January 2013 at 1:12 pm
IndenturedServant says:
@Chicago
+100
I’ve told my wife, since before she was my wife, to roll me into a ditch downwind of the house and call it good. Since that is not practical or legal, my carcass will be taken to The Body Farm where my decomposition or some such shit will be studied in natural situations for the benefit of science and education. I really don’t care what the hell happens but the only expense will be a local handling fee where I die and transport to The Body Farm.
I_S
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27th January 2013 at 1:25 pm
sangell says:
Suit yourself Chicago
I’m of mind to buy one of those giant obelisks or maybe even a crypt and on it have inscribed
People say you can’t take it with you, well I just did!
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27th January 2013 at 1:30 pm
AWD says:
“David Kime Jr. “lived by his own rules,”
If living by your own rules includes eating at Burger Shits, and whatever else is considered “all American”, then fuck it. What a bunch of dumb asses.
Eating and being obese is the holy sacrament these days. Human beings reduced to shoving food in their faces. We need more predators.
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27th January 2013 at 3:49 pm
IndenturedServant says:
AWD said:
“We need more predators.”
Patience Grasshopper! Your govt is working on it! Predators are being amassed but the prey is currently armed. Once disarmed, fat camps, among other things, will be established to bring about a leaner and better educated herd.
I_S
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27th January 2013 at 5:36 pm
AWD says:
“He lived by his own rules”
He lived under the tutelage of mommy, then the discipline of the military, then under the thumb of his wife, and always under the lash of consumerism.
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27th January 2013 at 6:23 pm
SSS says:
“This was truly an American funeral and another fine example of our doomed culture.”
—-Admin
“If living by your own rules includes eating at Burger Shits, and whatever else is considered “all American”, then fuck it. What a bunch of dumb asses.”
—-AWD
Goodness, what a bunch of sourpusses on this site. You’d think that this unusual funeral procession was the first time something like this happened when someone died.
The guy was 88 years old, a WWII vet, liked to eat at Burger King, did NOT appear to be at all obese (from my take of the picture posted by AWD), and obviously had some precise instructions on how he wanted to be buried. His heirs did not make up those instructions for his burial, HE did.
I got a huge smile on my face when I read that in the paper this morning. Huge. According to his daughter, the guy obviously lived life HIS way and went out the same way. That’s so friggin’ American.
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27th January 2013 at 6:48 pm
Administrator says:
SSS wants this funeral
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27th January 2013 at 6:59 pm
AWD says:
We shit on everybody, even Korean War vets (read for comprehension). If your highest ambition in life is to have your funeral pass through Burger Shits, then you are a dumbshit. Poverty of ambition is what’s turned a once great country into a bunch of honey boo boo watching, pink slime eating, rotund dolts.
I always wanted to have a harem, and die in the saddle.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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27th January 2013 at 7:10 pm
sangell says:
This is how I want the world to react to the news of my death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZsVP2WoE9E
Anyone who fails to show sufficient grief will be buried with me.
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27th January 2013 at 7:24 pm
John A says:
I lived and worked in York, PA for 3 1/2 years and I have eaten at this BK a few times. I’m glad this man got his last request, but I feel better burgers were to be had down the road at FIVE GUYS on Mt. Zion Road. Thank you for your service to your country, Mr. Kime, and also for your sense of humor. R.I.P.
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27th January 2013 at 7:27 pm
AWD says:
Shit, he was a WW2 vet, my mistake.
BTW, you don’t get obese from eating at Burger King. Eating a whopper gives you diarrhea and dissentary, they let the burgers sit out too long.
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27th January 2013 at 7:42 pm
SSS says:
AWD
My wife and I were running around this morning doing some charity stuff and ate at Smashburgers for lunch. We do this once in a blue moon, eat at a fast food restaurant, that is. She had the Arizona grilled chicken, and I had the American Smashburger.
My Lord, was that hamburger good. Over the top good. It was the best fucking hamburger I’ve EVER had at a restaurant. Ever. She took a bite and agreed. And my wife loved the moist, tender chicken sandwich.
Smashburgers. If there’s one in your area, give it a try. And I love the name.
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27th January 2013 at 8:00 pm
AWD says:
Did you get it with bacon?
I wish they had real restaurants around here. Red Lobster and Olive Garden are 30 minutes away and considered gourmet dining in S. Illinois.
The kids and I went to Chili’s yesterday (an hour away). I had an excellent burger. I went to the burger bar in Vegas once, and it was excellent. Red meat is good once in awhile.
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27th January 2013 at 8:15 pm
AWD says:
Who in God’s name would thumbs down that over-sized picture of the bikini-clad bevvy of beautiful babes? What has this world come to? Oh, the humanity.
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27th January 2013 at 8:17 pm
Eddie says:
Now there’s a cultural anthropological artifact for you. It was a small thing, but they will remember him for it.
Not exactly a Cadillac Coffin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkUP2gJxc50
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27th January 2013 at 8:33 pm
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SSS
I can hear your arteries closing.
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27th January 2013 at 8:36 pm
AWD says:
I don’t always eat hamburgers, when I do, they have to kill a cow….
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27th January 2013 at 8:58 pm
Makati1 says:
He probably was a thin old man, not an Elvis impersonator size. At 88 there are few fat people. They never get that far. My dad died at age 88 (WW2 Vet) two years ago of a flu/pneumnoia attack. He was fiarly heathy up until that point, but he ate what he wanted, when he wanted and we often went to an all you can eat buffet and enjoyed rare steak and all the trimmings. It’s not what you eat so much as how much you eat. I too eat what I want, when I want. Pudding on hotcakes is my favorite twice a year.
(Pudding is a mix of pig scraps, seasonings and corn meal made into loaves during the butchering of pigs. It is heated until it is soft and then used as a greasy meat topping on hotcakes. YUM! )
BTW: I am NOT a fast food fanatic, but I do indulge occasionally and I am 68 and in very good health. BMI of 24. No meds.
Keep in mind that Cancer still takes out about 700,000 Americans every year. Cigarette anyone?
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27th January 2013 at 9:38 pm
SSS says:
Admin
That photo you posted is the large Smashburger and looks like the one I ate, without the lettuce though. Lettuce is for salads. The roll depicted is the Smashburger egg roll, also very tasty.
You know you want a Smashburger. I just know you do. Everyone on TBP knows you want a Smashburger. You won’t be able to get that photo of a Smashburger out of your mind. Eventually, you will go to the Smashburger website to find the nearest Smashburger’s, and soon you and Avalon will head there at the first available opportunity. Drive safely.
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27th January 2013 at 12:14 pm
Eddie says:
Every time I try to eat a burger, my wife and daughters go all AWD on me.
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27th January 2013 at 12:21 pm
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SSS
You were right. I drove 400 miles to taste the juicy goodness.
I even got some to go.
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27th January 2013 at 12:26 pm
AWD says:
Chew with your mouth closed you fat fuck
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27th January 2013 at 12:42 pm