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If you thought you'd previously seen it all, well, you're wrong. Case in point: David Morales Colón, a 22-year-old Puerto Rican man who was shot to death last Thursday, and whose wake is now making headlines here in the United States mainland. How come? Well, suffice it to say that the funeral directors at Marin Funeral Home in San Juan's Hato Rey neighborhood have a flair for the unorthodox. For example, in 2008, they embalmed another young shooting victim and displayed his body standing up for the duration of a multi-day wake.

Back to the present: Yesterday and today, callers who stopped to pay their final respects to the late Mr. Colón got a bit of a surprise. Instead of the traditional presentation of the body in a casket, Mr. Colón's corpse, dressed in casual duds and sunglasses, was instead posed in a very lifelike position atop his Repsol-liveried Honda CBR600 F4. According to Puerto Rico's Primera Hora newspaper, the motorcycle was given to the victim by his uncle, and upon Mr. Colón's untimely demise, family members delivered the bike to the funeral home specifically for this unusual wake.

Lest you think this is some sort of insane hoax, here's the link to the local Primera Hora newspaper coverage, which features a multi-shot photo gallery, and here's the less detailed Associated Press wire version that's presently making the rounds. Finally, we've got a video posted after the jump. We'll say this: David Morales Colón rides into the afterlife in memorable style. Thanks to Joel for the tip, and thanks to Wes Siler for the bike ID.

The viewing

Interesting and sort of cool in a way, but I wonder how much re-bar was used. Use your imagination. Once dated a mortician, great gal, and helped her drive a pair of golf shoes on to a corpse's feet with a mallet. The deceased wanted to be buried in his fav golf outfit, the family insisted on the shoes.
Is he being buried with the bike? If so Mr. Colon seems sort of selfish, doesn't he have a nephew that wants it? If he does leave it to a survivor what's the best cleaning solution to get the embalming ooze of the bike, S100, Simple Green, Mothers, ETC. Just asking.

wow ... amazing. creepy ... but amazing.

HAHAHAHA my Puertorican brothers never cease to amaze me...
One thing is for sure, people WILL remember him lol, dang crazy Puertoricans.

Aren't they voting on Puerto Rico's statehood process today?

David Morales Colón isn't.

While what was done in Revs original link would be considered "bad taste" and "not the done thing" over here, especially when you consider where they would have shoved the rod that keeps him on the seat

We can still make that final journey in style
http://www.motorcyclefunerals.com/

I might get in touch with them when its my turn

Actually congress was going to vote on a system for Puerto Rico's road to statehood. In the proposal us mainland Puerto Rican residents would be allowed to vote in the future plebiscite. Unfortunately David morales Colon wasn't a resident of Chicago so he's screwed.

Would David be a Shark or a Jet?

Triumphant last ride