Funeral home offers drunk drivers a free burial

[December 30, 2009]  ROME, Ga. (AP) -- Planning to drink and drive this New Year's? A north Georgia funeral home has a deal for you.

Between now and noon Thursday, drivers can visit McGuire, Jennings and Miller Funeral Home in Rome to sign a contract stating they plan to drink or take drugs and then drive on New Year's Eve. If they die in a wreck that day, the funeral home will give them a free burial.

Services included in the package are a casket, grave, limousine and preparation of remains.

Funeral home officials said the program is designed to save lives by making partygoers think twice about drinking and driving.

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Information from: Rome News-Tribune, http://www.romenews-tribune.com/

[Associated Press]

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