Woman Has Been Hilariously Ghosting Herself Into Funerals For Free Food

Surely everyone has heard or seen the Owen Wilson Vince Vaughn hit comedy, The Wedding Crashers. No? (Wow, you’re either really young or really old.) But the gist of it is… The two actors play divorce mediators who spend their free time crashing wedding receptions. For the irrepressible duo, there are few better ways to drink for free and bed vulnerable women. So when Secretary of the Treasury William Cleary (Christopher Walken) announces the wedding of his daughter, the pair make it their mission to crash the high-profile event. This has become a practice much better developed amongst weddings now. And extra caution has been implemented into the wedding planning process. But there’s always been that one person that ruins everything,not just at weddings, but also at parties. However, not until now did I hear about someone who crashes funerals… I wish I were lying. In England, a serial funeral crasher has been blasted for turning up at services uninvited and tucking into food at the wakes afterwards. Mourners are sick to death of a serial funeral crasher who’s been barging in on people’s worst days for the past 14 years — just for the free food. We all love a good spread. A wedding, a christening, a birthday party. Who doesn’t love a good buffet? From mini-sausage rolls to a slice of quiche. For most of us they probably a bi-annual delight at best. For this woman, it may be her only source of nutrition... The woman has routinely attended memorials at the Holy Redeemer Church in Slough, Berks since 2003. Her form of worshiping at the Holy Redeemer Church? You guessed it. Making her way to the reception after the mass and loading up on whatever they’re serving despite the fact that she’s not invited to it. Margaret Whitehead, lost her daughter Catherine Whitehead, at the age of 42 after living with Addison’s disease. Which is a endocrine disorder in which the adrenal glands do not produce enough steroid hormones. Three weeks after she passed, family and friends held a funeral where the unknown woman turned up on a bike and began chatting to the guests. When she found out who exactly was the phantom mourner at her daughter’s intimate funeral, she was left fuming by the unwelcome guest’s behavior. The famished fraudster even went as far as hitching a ride from Margaret’s son Kevin from the church to the wake. She said to The Sun: “She got my son Kevin to give her a lift from the church to the Irish Centre for the wake. There were a lot of people at the funeral from Catherine’s work so I just assumed she was a colleague.” She continued: “When I spoke to her though she told me she used to work with Catherine as a waitress. My daughter never worked as a waitress.” Following the funeral Margaret learned the woman is notorious for turning up uninvited. Margaret from Warfield, near Bracknell. Berks added: “She was eating from the buffet like there was no tomorrow. At the end of the wake she took out a Tupperware box, filled it up with food and cycled off with it in the basket on her bicycle. There’s mass every morning, she doesn’t need to go to funerals. She’s only going when there’s a cheap lunch. She intrudes on people when they are upset and sad.” She’s known to the local priest, who says she feels it is her ‘duty to attend as many church masses as possible’, but he can’t turn her away as he can’t exactly say ‘you can’t come here’. Father Noah Connolly said he was aware of the woman, but powerless to prevent her from attending church services. Father Noah Connolly, of the Holy Redeemer Church in Slough, Berkshire, told the Mirror: “Every funeral we have she comes and if there is a reception afterwards she makes her way to it without invitation. She is a Catholic woman and she is convinced she needs to go to as many masses as possible. She has been coming and going since I have been here for the past 14 years.” Well, Margaret Whitehead isn’t a priest and she was so livid she decided to confront the stranger. So she went to the regularly held mass on Sunday and waited for her. The bereaved woman approached the professional mourner after church service. She said: “I went to church on Sunday and had a go at her. I waited until the service was finished, I walked up to her and said ‘you don’t know me but you went to my daughter’s funeral.'” According to Margaret the woman insisted she had been invited: “She said ‘I was invited.’ I said ‘You weren’t.’.” This woman obviously mourns without charge; however, it is possible to pay for mourners at a funeral. A crowded funeral is one symbol of a well-lived life. For those who have burned some bridges, one U.K. company has a solution to boost memorial service attendance. Rent-A-Mourner, based in Essex, England, hires out fake mourners to local funerals for around $68 for two hours of grief. Actors stand in as friends of the deceased, adding numbers to the crowd, said company founder Ian Robertson, who started the business last year. To help the hired grievers fit in, the actors are briefed about the life of the deceased so that they can talk to other funeral-goers as if they had been friends, according to the company. The idea is not new in other parts of the world. In some African countries, China and Middle Eastern countries it’s tradition to hire professional mourners who come to publicly grieve at funerals. In Ivory Coast, the job is a sought-after career for some women, who can make make up to several hundred dollars per day for their weeping services, according to a Radio Netherlands report. The New York Times even noted the practice as long ago as 1877, with a short item about the popularity of “professional weepers” in Asia. The author envisioned that one day mechanical grievers could replace humans at American funerals. h/t Viralized Support ViraScoop by doing your Amazon shopping through this link.