In the Des Moines Register was a story titled, “Man, Believed Killed by Log, Sits on It.” “It happened in Hamburg, Wisconsin. William Bartelt, 71, of Hamburg, was recovering in a Wausau hospital Saturday after friends gave him up for dead after a log struck him on the head. Bartelt was hit by a limb cut down by his hired hand at his central Wisconsin farm, officials said. The limb knocked him out and the hired hand, Gerhardt Stueber, determined that Bartelt was not breathing and called relatives to the scene, authorities said. Coroner Mary Nelles was alerted, and a funeral home dispatched a vehicle to recover the body. Nelles found the elderly man sitting on the log that struck him, sheriff’s officers said.”

I bet that was a jolt for good old Nelles who had called the funeral home. Can’t …