• Grieving Parents Surprised When Not-Dead Son Answers the Door, Police sorry for telling wrong family
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[IMG]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ClLMbGyF--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/v8vhie2cl7vhnp7r2pdb.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska couple knocked on the door of their son's long-time girlfriend Thursday, intending to inform her that he'd been killed in a car accident.Karen and Jay Priest instead were stunned when the son, 29-year-old Justin Priest, answered the door. They had mistakenly been told by Juneau police that he'd been killed in the crash. Karen Priest said her husband started sobbing, and she was in shock. "There are no words," she said on Friday, still wrung out from what she called an emotional roller coaster. "We just kept staring at him." Justin Priest said he'd gotten up to let out his 9-week-old puppy and was near the door at 5:30 a.m. when his parents and brother knocked. They started screaming when he opened the door. The Priests live outside of Palmer. At 3 a.m. Thursday, they were awakened by their barking dogs and a knock on the door. Through a window, Jay saw a man with the drill sergeant hat of an Alaska State Trooper. "He knew right away, the dread. It's not good when a trooper knocks on your door at three o'clock in the morning," Karen Priest said. The trooper informed them that Justin, a private fisheries biologist in Anchorage, had died in Juneau. The trooper gave them a Juneau police phone number. When the couple called there, an officer said Justin's car had crashed into a tree at high speed. That didn't sound like Justin, Karen said. The officer said the investigation was ongoing, which to her implied alcohol use, and that didn't sound right either, she said. They started calling out-of-state relatives. The Priests dressed and drove 45 miles to Anchorage to tell another son, Cody. Awakened at 4:30 a.m., Cody collapsed when he heard the news, Karen said. The parents and Cody drove to find Justin's long-time girlfriend, Julia, so she could hear the news in person. Jay knocked on the door. "It opens and right here is Justin. I don't even see it but Jay is sobbing. It doesn't compute to me. Then I see him," she said. "You want it to be true, but you go, 'Am I hallucinating?' Justin didn't know what was going on." "I didn't know why they were yelling and screaming," Justin Priest said. "I was mostly asleep. They were yelling, 'Praise Jesus! It's a miracle!'" It took a few minutes to sort out what happened. Justin initially thought his parents were the victims of a scam. After "lots of hugging, lots of tears," he called Juneau police to tell them they had identified the wrong Justin Priest. Juneau police have apologized for the anguish the mistake caused and are reviewing audio tapes and other records to find out what went wrong. "I'm almost speechless for words," Chief Bryce Johnson said. "This shouldn't happen." Police wanted troopers to contact the Priest family to find out if the crash victim was their son. The request was unclearly transmitted or misinterpreted, Johnson said, and the officer took the assignment as a death notification.[/QUOTE] [url]http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9ef617691ebe497bbd6e92ec593b4d7d/police-sorry-telling-wrong-family-death[/url] Thats a fuck up
He's obviously a zombie and this is all a clever trick on his part for more brains.
I actually think this is pretty awesome, to a degree, The parents must be so relieved. Bet it makes them appreciate their son a lot more. I think I'm going to get some hate for this comment but I've had a similar experience which is a bit long to type out. The feeling of relief is amazing.
For once, when a grieving family says "please don't let this be true"... its answered correctly.
This is exactly like The Monkey's Paw, except without a monkey or a paw, and the parents did the knocking. But I bet his parents wished he was still alive and there he was at the door!
[quote]They were yelling, 'Praise Jesus! It's a miracle!'[/quote] WTF :v:
[QUOTE=Lurklet;46208824]I actually think this is pretty awesome, to a degree, The parents must be so relieved. Bet it makes them appreciate their son a lot more. I think I'm going to get some hate for this comment but I've had a similar experience which is a bit long to type out. The feeling of relief is amazing.[/QUOTE] The mixed feeling of "thank god it's not [i]my[/i] kid and someone else's" must be pretty shitty in itself.
[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;46208953]WTF :v:[/QUOTE] That's a pretty normal thing to say for an event like this.
[quote]It took a few minutes to sort out what happened. Justin initially thought his parents were the victims of a scam. After "lots of hugging, lots of tears," he called Juneau police to tell them they had identified the wrong Justin Priest.[/quote] This is why in my area we ONLY let the medical examiner identify the body.
And yet, there's another family who hasn't gotten the news that their son has passed away.
Imagine how confused you'd be opening the door and your family just stares at you yelling miracle
[QUOTE=uitham;46209084]Imagine how confused you'd be opening the door and your family just stares at you yelling miracle[/QUOTE] Ever read [I]A Story of an Hour[/I]? Related I guess? its about something like this [url]http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/[/url]
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;46208984][QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;46208953]WTF :v:[/QUOTE] That's a pretty normal thing to say for an event like this.[/QUOTE] lol
man, jesus looks a lot different than id thought he did.
[QUOTE=SexualShark;46209495]man, jesus looks a lot different than id thought he did.[/QUOTE] Well, he's got the beard.
[QUOTE=Popularvote;46209519]Well, he's got the beard.[/QUOTE] Not only that, he looks pretty chill a dude. Plus.. he's got a puppy! Totally awesome Jesus.
[QUOTE=NoobieWafer223;46208837]For once, when a grieving family says "please don't let this be true"... its answered correctly.[/QUOTE] While true, now some other family unfortunately has to hear that they've lost a loved one.
Read the guys name as Judist Priest
A zipper on the back of his head. THAT'S NOT YOUR SON! IT'S HIS SKELETON IN DISGUISE!
Meanwhile, local family goes to visit son and is shocked to find the door being answered by no one.
I've had (sort of) a similar experience. About 12 years ago, a friend of mine got killed by a truck when crossing the street after school. He looked somewhat similar to me; short, had glasses, there were surprisingly few kids looking like that. He got hit by the truck pretty bad and his body was hard to identify, it also took the police a while to get there. For the next half hour or so, a lot of parents who had kids with a similar description were extremely worried (until their kids got home).
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