Men Break Into Tennessee Storage Facility, Decide to Nap in Caskets

By KSEE News

Men Break Into Tennessee Storage Facility, Decide to Nap in Caskets

August 24, 2011 Updated Aug 24, 2011 at 10:54 AM PDT

(JOHNSON CITY PRESS) Employees of a funeral home in Tennessee found two men napping inside caskets Tuesday morning, resulting in one man's arrest and a police search for the second.

Bristol, Tennessee police said that employees working in a casket storage facility discovered two men asleep in caskets. When the employees said they were calling police, the men jumped out a window to escape.

One suspect was arrested and charged with burglary and vandalism. The man told police he was homeless.

The other suspect managed to get away and has yet to be located.

The men caused more than $9,000 in damages to the caskets, police said.

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