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Siva Moodley, a pastor at The Miracle Centre near Johannesburg,
RIP: Pastor Finally Buried After Almost Two Years
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South Africa, died on Aug. 15, 2021, Oddity Central re- ported. But until recently, his body lay at a funeral home — for almost 600 days, or nearly two years — because his fam- ily members were convinced he would come back to life. The mortuary couldn’t move forward on a burial without consent from the family, who at first came to the facility to pray for his resurrection.
pet due to it all,” he said. “He was my super monkey. I feel sorry for (Parker) and her in- jury. My friend and pet Jack lost his life over a massive misunderstanding and the lack of knowledge and edu- cation with an exotic animal,” Carter added.
clothing as he fled. He was nude when arrested. At some point, he had transferred the dead deer into the school bus; he told them he was going to use it for garden fertilizer. He
faces multiple charges.
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“He started grabbing hand- fuls of my hair and just ripped it out,” she added.
Parker said she will need plastic surgery to fix her ear. P.J. Carter, Jack’s owner, is distraught.
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Dickson police were called, and as they looked for the monkey, two shots were fired.
KOKH-TV reported that on March 12, a woman in Dickson, Oklahoma, was at-
“I lost my best friend and
Saunders finally ran away from the bus and through parking lots, shedding his
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The district attorney has declined to file charges.
“He was a well-known man and does not deserve this kind of treatment,” the mortuary owner said.
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Oh, Deer
Tony Saunders of Steelton, Pennsylvania, led state troop- ers on an odyssey on April 4, WTAJ-TV reported. Early that morning, officers stopped Saunders on suspicion of a burglary the day before. In the trunk of his BMW, he had a dead deer; when a trooper went to open the rear door, Saunders sped away and eventually got stuck on railroad tracks. He left the car and ran into a wooded area. Later that day, a school bus was reported stolen from Ab- bottstown, and again, police gave chase.
Finally, he took legal ac- tion to further the pastor’s burial. In response, the Gauteng High Court autho- rized a mandatory burial or cremation, and on March 16, Moodley was finally laid to rest.
tacked by her neighbor’s pet monkey, Jack, resulting in her ear being ripped “almost completely off my head,” the victim, Brittany Parker, said.
“The shots came from the area of the victim’s res- idence. Officers went back to the house and found that a family member of the victim shot and killed the primate,” police said.
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