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Man Drinks to His Pabst Can Coffin

AP
Posted: 2008-05-07 15:19:18
SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (May 5) - Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he's got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it. "I actually fit, because I got in here," said Bramanti of South Chicago Heights.

The 67-year-old Glenwood village administrator doesn't plan on needing it anytime soon, though.

He threw a party Saturday for friends and filled his silver coffin - designed in Pabst's colors of red, white and blue - with ice and his favorite brew.

"Why put such a great novelty piece up on a shelf in storage when you could use it only the way Bill Bramanti would use it?" said Bramanti's daughter, Cathy Bramanti, 42.

Bramanti ordered the casket from Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home in Chicago Heights, and Scott Sign Co. of Chicago Heights designed the beer can.

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flyboy747 01:23:17 PM May 11 2008

i want to be buried in a B747....how many Mexicans will it take to dig that hole?

mrmcfartie 05:56:19 PM May 09 2008

How many men would like to be buried in there very own VAGINA coffin? I bet a lot.. lol

mrmcfartie 05:54:13 PM May 09 2008

Maybe they can replicate my favorite rabbit... buzzzz ahhhh I would love a jet of water, probably out of the question for a shower massager?

mrmcfartie 05:53:27 PM May 09 2008

I want to be buried into a life size penis.

alliedlake 04:28:03 PM May 09 2008

Miy brutha Cleotis be burried in his 69 Coupe da Vil ,hes alsa wanted wiff him a bottle of Kavasie- A......... I thinks dats hows u speld it. Wez was so happy to makes hiz wishes cum tru,my auntie also fru in da casket sum fried chickn and watermellon tuz.He be so happy now.

mshana2 04:04:56 PM May 09 2008

wheres the picture of it??

r555sharkteeth 01:37:57 PM May 09 2008

DRUNK loooooser thats all he has on his mind is beer .......................DRUNK loooooser

tygrusfurbelly 12:38:35 PM May 09 2008

"testarope 01:35:47 AM May 06 2008

Report This! I thought I detected the taste of rotten corpse the last time I tasted Pabst Blue Ribbon."

Taste a lot of rotten corpses do ya now? hmmmmm

moonglow658 12:21:21 PM May 09 2008

i want one

jezebel888 10:10:37 AM May 06 2008

ROFL @ microbrew homo's

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