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  • Australia's Best Driving Roads

    THE ROAD: Lake Mountain, Victoria

    As you ascend the mountain and get higher in altitude, like a scene from the Lion King, the road opens up to overlook a spectacular valley of Aussie alpine bush. The road is almost one of Australia’s worst driving roads because there’s so much to distract you from the road itself.

    You can read more about Lake Mountain here

     

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  • Australia's Best Driving Roads

    THE ROAD: (All of) Tasmania

    According to legend, there lies a mysterious island off the south coast of Australia, called ‘Tasmania’. Blanketed in clouds and roamed by strange human-like creatures, probably very similar to those in Avatar, it is a legendary nirvana for those who enjoy driving. The Tasmanian people do not know how to build a boring road.

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  • It's a drive-through funeral

    Actually, thanks to the bulletproof glass, the funeral parlour was popular with local gangs in the 1980s, who could host ceremonies for their fallen comrades without risk of becoming unwilling drive-through funeral customers themselves.

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  • It's a drive-through funeral

    The drive-through funeral parlour is owned by African-American soul and R&B singer Peggy Scott-Adams.

    "You can come by after work, you don't need to deal with parking, you can sign the book outside and the family knows that you paid your respects," Scott-Adams told the Times. "It's a convenience thing."

    Righto. And on that bombshell, we might end it there... RIP Robert Sanders, thank you for your sense of humour!

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  • It's a drive-through funeral

    In fact, there are more: there's also one in Chicago and Louisiana.

    The funeral parlour advertises itself as a convenient place for those willing to stop and pay their respects in their lunch hour - you could go through McDonald's drive-through afterwards and get a Happy Meal to cheer yourself up.

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  • It's a drive-through funeral

    It is the only drive-through funeral parlour in southern LA, apparently. There might be more. This is the country that invented health insurance for cats, after all.

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  • It's a drive-through funeral

    The drive-through funeral is apparently popular with the families of well-known deceased people who expect many visitors.

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  • It's a drive-through funeral

    We suppose the poor gentleman in these photos had a great sense of humour. He is late postal service co-worker Robert Sanders. He was 58.

    The drive-through funeral's glass partition is bulletproof, according to local media. To protect the deceased from getting more killed, we assume.

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  • It's a drive-through funeral

    The Robert L Adams funeral home in Los Angeles has been hosting drive-through funerals since 1974. Open from 6 to 8pm, too, apparently.

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  • It's a drive-through funeral

    Now, this is a bit creepy. From the country that gave the world whipped aerosol cheese and Paris Hilton, we give you the drive-through funeral parlour.

    Yes, that's right, what you're looking at here is possibly the world's first drive-through funeral. Buried in the suburbs of LA (where else), your relos can now come gawk at your stuffed corpse behind glass (bulletproof, in fact) without having to burn precious calories doing something so vigorous as getting out of their car.

    We hesitated a little bit before posting this up. Mainly, because they're pictures of a poor deceased gentleman who deserves respect in death. This is respect we'd happily grant in normal circumstances. But this is not normal circumstances. It's a freaking drive-through funeral.

    And it gets weirder.

    Top Gear Australia