Here's what really amuses me:
Marman's mother, Donna Doyle, tells the paper that her son had attended a friend's funeral and he was still in an emotionally raw state.
I run a rental car office in Durham, NC and frequently when people are caught doing things they shouldn't (e.g. smoking in the car, not putting gas in it, keeping it longer than they've paid for etc.) they claim they were on their way to a funeral. Good to know it's not just an east coast thing.