The funeral crasher

The Dom Post reports:

A fake mourner who repeatedly gatecrashed Wellington funerals was so keen on the food that he brought along tupperware containers to fill up and take home.

The “grim eater” attended up to four funerals a week during March and April before he was stopped.

+1 for ingenuity
-1 for tackiness

The man, thought to be aged in his 40s, went to different churches and venues around the eastern suburbs, including Miramar, Rongotai and Kilbirnie.

“We saw him three or four times in a week. And certainly he had a backpack with some tupperware containers so when people weren’t looking, he was stocking up.”

The man was “always very quiet and polite, and did as the rest of the mourners did in paying his respects”.

I would have thought it is easier to get food from the City Mission, than crashing funerals.

He stopped coming after one staff member took the man aside, telling him he could still come to funerals but could not take food home with him.

But was he allowed to fill himself up during the service?