Tippler sleeps in mortuary, scares hospital staff
PTI | 03:08 PM,Aug 26,2010Thrissur (Ker), Aug 26 (PTI): A tippler who downed one too many had a sound sleep in a hospital mortuary here on Onam night, frightening women staff who saw him rising from the inquest table when they came to fetch a stretcher to move in a cadaver. The incident occurred at the Government Medical College Hospital at Mulankunnathkavu near here three days back. The man, who found a cosy bedroom in the mortuary, was handed over to police, who let him off after registering a case for tresspassing, police said. The middle-aged man, an employee of a private firm in Malappuram district, got down at the railway station here inebriated. When he got into an autorikshaw, he came to know it was not his destination. But he struck an instant bond with the auto driver and they downed another bottle. The autodriver then took him to the hospital compound and managed to push him down through a window, saying it was a workshop where he could sleep undisturbed. After a while, two women employees entered the mortuary to take out a stretcher and were startled to see a 'body' rising from the inquest table. They raised an alarm when the man stood on unsteady feet and shuffled out of the room. To their relief, he moved to the hospital gate and stood there. Police was immediately called in and he was taken to the station. The man told police he could not clearly recall what happened as he blacked out after downing the last pint. PTI COR NM APR
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