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Nederland's Annual Frozen Dead Guy Festival To Be Sold

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First Posted: 06/16/11 01:18 PM ET Updated: 08/16/11 06:12 AM ET

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- The Nederland Area Chamber of Commerce in Colorado is offering to sell the rights to a celebration of a frozen dead guy.

Bredo Morstoel's corpse has been packed in dry ice in a shed at the mountain town since 1993. He died in 1989 at age 89 and his Norwegian family preserved his body in hopes technology will be developed to bring him back to life.

The 10-year-old festival attracted 15,000 people in March. It features a parade of hearses, frozen salmon tossing and coffin races.

Interim chamber president Blue Hessner says the chamber wants to sell rights to the event and concentrate on business development.

According to the Boulder Daily Camera, the event has become too expensive and the chamber believes an event company could do a better job.

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Cars proceed up main street for the procession of the Frozen Dead Guy Days Parade in Nederland, Colorado, 2007.
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- The Nederland Area Chamber of Commerce in Colorado is offering to sell the rights to a celebration of a frozen dead guy. Bredo Morstoel's corpse has been packed in dry ice in...
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- The Nederland Area Chamber of Commerce in Colorado is offering to sell the rights to a celebration of a frozen dead guy. Bredo Morstoel's corpse has been packed in dry ice in...
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rickmarkson
He who laughs last thinks slowest!
01:45 PM on 08/06/2011
I thought there were laws regarding the handling of human remains, " Packed in dry ice in a shed at the mountain town since 1993" seems like a law or two might being bent here, just saying.
05:12 PM on 06/27/2011
WOW I have heard of people going crazy but this is ones insane.
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Boobuzuela
Satire identical to actual Republican positions
12:33 PM on 06/22/2011
It's like spending "Weekend at Bernies" but without the smell.
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sindfetish
opinions are like___we all have em
08:47 AM on 06/22/2011
wow...and I thought ohio was boring...
07:47 PM on 06/18/2011
I lived in Ned back in '68 when it was a lawless town full of drug dealers, dopers, alcoholics, runaways, hippies, bad gun-toting drunken sheriff's deputies and escaped felons. I'm glad to see that not much has changed in 43 years. You GO you crazy Ned-heads, celebrate your collective mental illness.
11:31 PM on 06/18/2011
Yeah, not much has changed.
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stormy7
11:33 AM on 06/18/2011
No, but I saw a frozen dead guy once when I worked at a hospital
07:48 PM on 06/18/2011
My dad was in the Bulge during WWII. He saw enough "frozen dead guys" that he even saw them in his nightmares for the rest of his life.
pcs5141
cut the crap
08:03 PM on 06/16/2011
I expected to see the dead guy propped up as parade marshal,major ripoff.