Man wanted for trying to revive father’s corpse

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani police are hunting a man who dug up his father’s two-year old corpse and took it home in a hijacked ambulance to try to bring him back to life.

Abdul Rehman’s family say he is mentally ill and has never been able to cope with his father’s death, police said on Saturday.

“He dug up the corpse on Thursday night after he had hijacked an ambulance and its driver at gunpoint and took it to his home,” Ghulam Murtaza, a duty officer at Ferozabad police station in the southern city of Karachi, told Reuters.

Police raided the house on Friday after a complaint from the trust that owned the ambulance and from Rehman’s brother.

“He kept the corpse, which was nothing but a skeleton in his bedroom, for well over 12 hours. He escaped when we raided the house. We have buried it again,” Murtaza said.

Rehman had also kidnapped a vagabond who slept in the graveyard and locked him up at home, police said.

“He told us he saw Rehman chanting magic spells and pouring rose water on the corpse to bring it back to life and was crying bitterly,” Murtaza said.

Rehman faces a year in jail for defiling a corpse, police said.

This Rehman guy is a freaking go-getter. Not only does he manage to snatch an ambulance and steal a rotting corpse but he simultaneously manages to abduct a dirty hobo from the graveyard and throw the bum in a dirty cage in his home.

Something about the hobo part seems fishy to me. Graverobbing is very labor-intensive, especially when you’re bat-shit insane and the body is 2 years old. I suspect that the hobo went back to the guy’s house willingly, possibly for a romantic encounter. This fact (if true) means that the graverobber picked the guy up while driving a stolen ambulance with a stolen corpse in the back.

That is simply PIMP, even though a dirty bum who lives in the graveyard probably isn’t the greatest of catches, even in Pakistan.

AND the guy got away! I hope they find him before he either A.) Raises the dead or B.) Assembles an army of vagabond sex slaves to serve as his unholy army of the night.