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Man turns up alive at his own funeral

A Brazilian bricklayer stunned friends and family by wandering into his own funeral. The man had been on an all-night drinking spree when relatives mistakenly identified the body of a disfigured car-crash victim as belonging to him. "An aunt and four of his friends identified the body, so what were we to do? We went ahead with the funeral," said the man's niece.

CBS News | 11/04

This story published in SmartBrief on Leadership on 11/06/2009

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