It was a startling image for some motorists on the Central Coast. It was a casket next to Highway 101 in San Luis Obispo.
CHP dispatchers received a number of calls about the unusual sight off of Highway 101 near Santa Rosa Street Sunday morning.
An officer responding to the scene discovered the casket was real, and fortunately, unoccupied.
CHP officers say that a homeless woman recovered the abandoned casket from the trash at a construction site, and was trying to roll it to a nearby swap meet to sell it.
After being told she shouldn’t be rolling a casket down the side of a highway, the woman complied and rolled it off onto surface streets.
