Get your £45 coffins here ( just one dead careful owner)
PARENTS’ garages are often cluttered with junk belonging to their grown-up children.
But rather than boxes of old toys or grease-encrusted motorbike parts, Mark Lumsden’s mother was left with more macabre mementoes.
Her garage, in Lochgelly, Fife, was clogged with around a dozen coffins, many of them stained with fake blood.
They were left there by her lorry mechanic son. Until recently, he drove old hearses to compete in banger races and obtained the caskets while negotiating the purchase of a vehicle from a retired undertaker.
When his mother ordered the 31-year-old to take the coffins away, he put them up for sale on Facebook – at £45 with a lid and £40 without.
Mr Lumsden was stunned when more than 1,500 potential buyers showed ghoulish interest.
Some wanted to use them as props or for Halloween festivities. One woman intended to turn hers into a bookcase.
Father of two Mr Lumsden, also from Lochgelly, captioned his advert: ‘Selection of around 12 coffins, some have matching lids. Been used for various Halloween parties so some have fake blood stains on them.’
He told his local paper: ‘I put them up for sale mainly because I was getting a bit of stick off my mum as they had been stored at her house for the last 12 months. I only thought I’d sell two or three, but since putting them online the whole thing has gone mental. I’ve had to switch my mobile off.’
He said ‘never in a million years’ did he expect that, adding: ‘Thankfully, they’re all sold now.’