Trend Spotting: Stealing from Corpses.

Feeling "stiffed" by your job? Need to take "grave" matters into your hands? Do you enjoy "Tombstone" pizza while reading annoying and irrelevant puns? Then you need to hop on the bandwagon/hearse and do what all the ghoul kids are doing - steal from corpses!

Corpses are a wonderful resource. They oftentimes have jewelry, watches, money, credit cards, drugs, and weapons. Best of all - they practically give away their stuff by not saying anything or fighting back. From ABC News:

Stealing from the dead is a recurrent theme in death investigations that pops up periodically, according to Dr. Randy Hanzlick, a leading forensic pathology professor and a chief medical examiner in Georgia.

"There have been cases around the country," Hanzlick told ABC News. Accusations include stealing prescription drugs, cash, personal valuables and, in one case, a handgun from the dead.

In June, a coroner's office investigator in West Virginia was accused of stealing a credit card from a body and using it to charge more than $400 at a strip club.

Why the uptick in robbing remains?

These incidents highlight weaknesses in the system that Hanzlick says must be examined. [...] Experts say that people who are untrained and inexperienced often qualify to hold the position of coroner in many states and counties throughout the U.S. and that the risks and consequences are great.

In Georgia, for example, anyone who is a registered voter, at least 25 years-old, has no felony conviction and has a high school diploma or equivalent is eligible to be a coroner, bearing the responsibility of leading death investigations, signing death certificates, and holding inquests.

"The coroner may be a local garage mechanic who uses a local hospital pathologist who has not had any training in forensic pathology," said Hanzlick. "The training requirements have to be stiffened up."

Look, he did a pun too! Don't hate!