Hearse drivers fired for coffee stop

Two funeral workers have been fired after social media erupted in outrage for their pit stop at a Florida Dunkin' Donuts, where they left the hearse with a flag-draped casket in the parking lot.

One of the Dunkin Donuts' employees took a video of the scene, sharing it ultimately with a veterans' group. Inside the hearse was the body of 84-year-old Lt. Col. Jesse Coleman, Fox News reported.

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"What could they have been thinking? I haven't got the foggiest idea," said Veterans Funeral Care President Jim Rudolph to ABC Action News in Tampa.

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Rudolph also said the two employees have been fired.

"It's not what we do," he said, of the coffee stop. "That's absolutely a total lack of respect."

Fox News reported family members of Coleman said they forgive the employees, who only had to make about a 90-minute drive to transport the body to the funeral site.