The Law of Physics.

I had never seen this before. I think those who saw it too, would have said the same. I was driving at the time, but all those who saw it, must have thought the same as me.

If I was walking, I would have stopped in amazement. We all saw the law of physics in action.

It was the final journey of a grandad, dad, brother, uncle.

When I first saw them, I was at a junction and then soon I was next to them, then miles later I looked in my rear-view mirror and they were behind me.

The hearse was in front, with all the floral tributes.

Behind the hearse, was a motorbike and the side passenger was the gentleman in his coffin!

Watching it, it didn’t make sense. I expected at any moment things could go wrong. I knew it wouldn’t, but it just didn’t seem possible for the motorbike driver to be able to balance the wooden coffin and the gentleman inside, it seemed like the balance was wrong. I assumed, there was a lot of steel going from bike to underneath the coffin and a lot of weights on the driver’s side.

They didn’t seem to be driving slowly as I was going 40mph and later on 50mph and when I looked in my rear-view mirror, I was very surprised to see them behind me.

It was a lovely touch, when going on my journey about four miles later, I saw a large motorbike on the path, sidewards for all to see with the owner dressed in his leathers, standing next to it, he was waiting to join the others that would also be behind the hearse.

I thought, he won’t know this, but he has had a lovely send-off, it was certainly something none of us had ever seen before, in real life.