PBR Fans who want to go out in style

[Taverner]

Bill Bramanti, poses with a coffin he had specially made designed to look like a can of his favorite beer, Pabst Blue Ribbon.

SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. — Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he's got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it. "I actually fit, because I got in here," said Bramanti of South Chicago Heights.

The 67-year-old Glenwood village administrator doesn't plan on needing it anytime soon, though.

He threw a party Saturday for friends and filled his silver coffin — designed in Pabst's colors of red, white and blue — with ice and his favorite brew.

"Why put such a great novelty piece up on a shelf in storage when you could use it only the way Bill Bramanti would use it?" said Bramanti's daughter, Cathy Bramanti, 42.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354137,00.html

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Am I wrong in thinking this dude has too much time and money on his hands?

[DS1]

2. Well he's certainly not spending his money on beer!

[mikeytherat]

7. That's what I thought when I read he filled it with PBR for his party.

"Dude. You could have at least put some beer in there."

mikey_the_rat

[Westegg]

12. Ha! First good laugh today. Thanks.

[kwassa]

3. Biggest beer cooler I've ever seen.

How many cases will that thing hold?

[PeaceNikki]

4. Has whoisalhedges seen this yet?

[dolo amber]

8. Meh...he won't want that

He wants to be taxidermied in a ferocious bear pose. :eyes:

[PeaceNikki]

11. .

:rofl:

[nomorenomore08]

5. At least it's not as tacky as the KISS Kasket.

[mikeytherat]

6. That one always kills me!

KISS! Forever!

If the concept of "forever" isn't negated by the coffin, well, I guess I just broke another irony meter.

mikey_the_rat

[DS1]

9. If one were to get Bumper Nuts for their coffin

would they go on the lid?

[mikeytherat]

10. Under Gene's tongue?

Sorry, that (t)ain't right.

mikey_the_rat

[fizzgig]

13. i love me some pbr

but that's a bit much for me

[crimsonblue]

14. I thought this would be about Pro Bull Riding...

thanks for nuthin! }(

[Taverner]

15. Nah Pabst is enough masochism for me

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