Woman Charged With Disrupting Funeral, Hitting Body

[oyashango]

             North Carolina Woman Charged With Disrupting Funeral, Hitting Body




March 05, 2009

Call it a case of paying your disrespects.

A North Carolina woman shocked a mourning family when she showed up at a funeral and danced in front of them before opening the casket and striking the body, The Greenville News reported Thursday.

Nicole Leonard, 25, was charged with public disorderly conduct and disturbing a funeral after the incident, which occurred on Tuesday at the Church of God in Gray Court, N.C.

Family members told the paper that they had no idea who she was when she interrupted the service, dancing around and waving a wand around the casket. She then laid her hands on the corpse’s face and struck it with the wand.

But she wasn’t finished yet. Leonard also reportedly took flowers from the top of the casket and hurled them at family members before driving off.

Later, a sheriff’s office lieutenant pulled over Leonard’s Toyota and took her into custody. She admitted that she was the one from the funeral, saying she did it because “it felt like the right thing to do at the time,” The Greenville News reported.

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[Unintelligable Name]

and waving a wand around the casket. She then laid her hands on the corpse’s face and struck it with the wand.

Like a tap of the wand on the forehead?

Sounds like she is a flower child to me.

[oyashango]

LOL!  I wonder what drug she was taking. Maybe she thought she was an archangel.

[lovealexjones]

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=48476.msg220022#msg220022

[Neco]

LOL!  I wonder what drug she was taking. Maybe she thought she was an archangel.

Haha yeah.

[CaptainFreedom09]

she prob , just on some anit-depressants ,  my heart goes out to her. ,  i wish there was a pic of her, she is 25 , i wonder if she is hot?!!   ,, hey i found a pic of her..  check it out..  in my opinion , i give her a 6/10 for looks.  that turtle neck sweater doesn't help her case , and she looks like she is zonked out on some med's ,, and she gets a 10/10 on the crazy,     ..  you can see the pic. here.     http://www.limelife.com/blog-entry/Woman-Attacks-Dead-Man-With-a-Wand/3227.html

[zafada]

She looks like she's strung out.