Overtaking funeral convoys - yay or nay?

Panthro

DrPhilG wrote: »

Another question, if you're in town or on a single lane road and a cortege is coming towards you, do you stop as it passes?

Yes of course. You pull in, wait for the hearse to pass, bless yourself.
Then for the next 6 to 8 cars you mime as best you can the words "sorry for your troubles"
Then the remaining cars you give a thumbs up.

Or do what I do and fcuk off into the nearest spar for a bit..who knows, they might have a few offers on the jaffa cakes.

begbysback

DrPhilG wrote: »

Another question, if you're in town or on a single lane road and a cortege is coming towards you, do you stop as it passes?

So then traffic in both directions comes to a standstill? C’mon now.

There is a simple solution to this dilemma- helicopters, put the coffin in the helicopter outside the morgue and away to the church / graveyard. Problem solved.

CBear1993

Drive on. It’s 2020. Nobody goes to mass anymore anyway and anyone that does it’s a habit/ because their parents did it.

Queue the onslaught of boardsies reminding me about karma etc.

Respect for funeral is one thing, I get it. Raised in a staunch catholic family myself. But it’s the persons choice to overtake, much like it’s the congregations choice to follow that religion and show up to the funeral to pay their respects. The world goes on, it stops for no one or nothing, as harsh as that is. While we are grieving, other people are going about their daily business.

If the OP can overtake in a safe manner and without causing a whole hullabaloo or lots of noise in doing so then tear away.

DrPhilG

Panthro wrote: »

bless yourself..

Most important bit.

I know a guy who was a rotten crook in his youth. Not now mind you. He runs an orphanage in the US.

He tells a story of how he was in the back of a car with a safe he and his mates had just robbed from a shop.

Whilst making their getaway, they passed a Chapel and all the other cons blessed themselves, lol.

In Drogheda, a funeral may go (walking) from one side of the town, to the other, using the busiest roads that are on the town.

If I'm relaxed and in no hurry, i wait it out. If I've work or an appointment or whatever, i overtake. But I always overtake at a gentle pace and try to coast by to avoid revving noises or such. Ive been to a few of these funerals, and the undertaker gives the choice of driving instead of walking. Which i think is a much better alternative, and i reckon the walking should be discontinued (unless it's a short distance).


I also recall, probably last year, a funeral (all cars, driving) doing about 30km on the Navan > Slane N road. I didn't realise it was a funeral at first, and thought there was a garda at the front doing one of those rolling roadblocks or something. There is a very decent hard shoulder along the road that they could have used, but instead there was a masssssive queue of traffic, including couriers and delivery trucks etc. all stuck behind it. Felt it was very disrespectful to other people.

Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!

hurikane wrote: »

Wtf you talking about?

The poster complained that hearses only do 80 km/h and implied they were holding up traffic.


I'm saying buses are limited to an even lesser speed.

nails1

nails1 wrote: »

The hearse with the limos behind. Doing 30 in a 50 zone. Seem to be getting stuck behind them everyday going to work and I do be late but too polite to overtake

Every day? Then just leave for work a bit earlier. Or just stop exaggerating.

Rodin

nails1 wrote: »

The hearse with the limos behind. Doing 30 in a 50 zone. Seem to be getting stuck behind them everyday going to work and I do be late but too polite to overtake

Definitely not.

screamer

buried wrote: »

Sure everything has to stop S, You'll have to stop someday yourself so you better get used to it.

Indeed I will, but I’d hope not to inconvenience the living. Seriously people don’t give a hoot about strangers in life, wouldn’t even greet you in the street. But in death it’s all this show respect etc, just more weird Irishisms where death comes calling. Like people saying someone looked lovely when laid out FFS.

Hangdogroad

Since when they start holding funerals early in the morning?

Outkast_IRE

All this talk of funeral etiquette reminds me of a very embarrassing situation i found myself in a few years back.

One summer i got work experience up in Limerick - I am from Cork. As the days are long that time of year, and the weather generally fine i decided i would drive it each day. The Cork Limerick road was brutal at points but in particular the road in Buttevant was like it had been hit with mortar fire along its entire length , it was more rumble strip than road.

After 3 months of doing this drive back and forth each day , on my 2nd to last day on the way home i noticed the car exhaust noise was a bit more audible than usual. I got out checked it and could see the exhaust was starting to detach before the back box - it was well clipped so not dangerous but noisy.

As i was going through the rumblestrip/road in Buttevant the traffic was proceeding very slowly. The noise from the car was getting worse , louder than any souped up car . The exhaust was now fully detached before the back box.

As i proceeded slowly through the town 5-10 yards at a time in start stop traffic . I seen the holdup was a funeral , they were just exiting the church. As luck would have it the traffic moved forward . I came to a stop again directly outside the church as the coffin was being carried out , the car exhaust was doing its best impression of a 5 litre v8 monster it could. I was stuck in that spot for a good few mins whilst being stared out of it by every member of the funeral, called all names under the sun.

Certainly one of my most embarrassing moments in a car.

Feisar

I wouldn't pass one at the same time I wouldn't be bothered if someone passed me!

For Forks Sake

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Where the heck do you live if you're A. encountering regular funeral corteges and B. they all feature limousines?

Going by some of the videos doing the rounds on whatsapp yesterday, my money would be on Limerick

Calahonda52

nails1 wrote: »

The hearse with the limos behind. Doing 30 in a 50 zone. Seem to be getting stuck behind them everyday going to work and I do be late but too polite to overtake

But for the grace of [as required] go you.
Every day going to work, get ba grips

Risingshadoo

Would anyone pull in if a hearse was behind them? They're in a faster car; you're going at the speed limit, and they're very close to you.

andekwarhola

It's very frustrating but you wouldn't dream of doing it.

buried

screamer wrote: »

Indeed I will, but I’d hope not to inconvenience the living. Seriously people don’t give a hoot about strangers in life, wouldn’t even greet you in the street. But in death it’s all this show respect etc, just more weird Irishisms where death comes calling. Like people saying someone looked lovely when laid out FFS.

But death is the great universal leveller, each and everyone of us will have to face it, and nobody who is living knows for sure what we will have to face after we die, could be eternal darkness or nothing, but it could be something else waiting for us in another dimension that we can't even comprehend yet. I'm not talking about some Abrahamic Judeo-Christian- King James bible $hite like "clouds in heaven or lakes of fire in hell", science has proved there are multiple dimensions, and there could be something one step beyond this world, something you will definitely have to face on your own. That's where the respect comes from, and it should be respected, because, we all have to go do it, and make no mistake, when it happens to you in the final moments, you'll know all about it.

RobertKK

https://twitter.com/InbetweenerVids/status/1052990611811442688?s=20

Hangdogroad

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Since when they start holding funerals early in the morning?

Majority of workers don't work 9 to 5. They work staggered shifts.

Risingshadoo

Risingshadoo wrote: »

Would anyone pull in if a hearse was behind them? They're in a faster car; you're going at the speed limit, and they're very close to you.

Bit if an odd scenario surely? They late or something?

Queasy Tadpole

Depends on the road.

On a dual carriage way/motorway I'd zoom past without a care, on a single lane road no way I'd overtake.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Honestly I don't understand why its deemed disrespectful to overtake a hearse

Presumable you are also overtaking the entire funeral procession. This includes the grieving family.

If you don't see why, I dunno what to say.

hurikane

Hairy Japanese BASTARDS! wrote: »

The poster complained that hearses only do 80 km/h and implied they were holding up traffic.


I'm saying buses are limited to an even lesser speed.

I think you made that up.

partyguinness

I was in a funeral convoy for an elderly family relative last year and it was a good 45 min drive with the grandmother in the passenger seat (her brother's funeral).

I almost forgot myself a few times and overtook myself.

Risingshadoo

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Bit if an odd scenario surely? They late or something?

Yeah it was real weird; it was on a main road too. I was dying to find a spot where i could pull over to let them past. Cos i don't like to break the speed limit, when i am driving. The strange thing is, they flashed their hazard lights when they passed me.

I was just curious to know if anyone had been in a situation like this. Maybe you're right, they were late for their service.

Dravokivich

hurikane wrote: »

I think you made that up.

Made what up? The bus thing is true. And its not about standing either, its the lack of seat belts. They are limited to 65. Coaches are meant to be limited to 100. But Dublin Coach seem to have found a way to get around that.

hurikane

Dravokivich wrote: »

Made what up? The bus thing is true. And its not about standing either, its the lack of seat belts. They are limited to 65. Coaches are meant to be limited to 100. But Dublin Coach seem to have found a way to get around that.

Who was complaining about slow busses?

FatherTed

What's the reasoning for funeral processions going so slowly anyway? It's just procrastination for the inevitable.
My instructions are for a cremation anyway but if I was going to be buried my instructions would be for the procession to be pedal to the metal baby.

Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!

hurikane wrote: »

Who was complaining about slow busses?

No one was. The poster that I originally replied to was complaining about hearses only doing "80 km/h".

I replied by asking him if buses doing 65km/h bothers him in the same way.

weldoninhio

begbysback wrote: »

Lads if I’m dead and in the box then feel free to overtake, ain’t going to bother me, but if I’m in the ambulance then get ta fcuk outta the way ya prik.

You don't care how your family would feel??