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Going out with a bang: The service that will turn your loved one into live ammunition
Daily Mail ^
| August 1, 2011
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 08/02/2011 1:16:30 PM PDT by Quilla
A bizarre new service that allows you to lock and load your loved one’s ashes is blowing up on the internet.
Holy Smoke, based in Stockton, Alabama, boasts a 'tribute to your outdoorsman or woman like no other,' according to their website.
The company offers a means to 'continue to protect your home and family even after you are gone,' by turning ashes into fully-functioning bullets.
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A couple of game wardens came up with and implemeted this service. The Mail may think it bizarre, I like it.
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:16:38 PM PDT
by
Quilla
To: Quilla
Dang, wish I had thought of that.
2
posted on
08/02/2011 1:19:53 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
To: Quilla
The company offers a means to 'continue to protect your home and family even after you are gone,' by turning ashes into fully-functioning bullets.That should be "fully-functioning cartridges," not "bullets," which are just the projectile.
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:22:59 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: West Texas Chuck
They even made the Colbert Report, who of course found the concept hilarious unlike those of us from LA (Lower Alabama).
Colbert
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:26:03 PM PDT
by
Quilla
To: West Texas Chuck; Salamander
“Dang, wish I had thought of that.”
Yes . . . Me too.
This puts a serious American twist on the classic Viking funeral.
(Ping to Salamander, who just might be amused)
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:27:15 PM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
To: Quilla
Well, the left can’t complain. It is helping the environment in more ways than one.
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:31:34 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: Quilla
I wonder if this ammo leaves more residue behind?
To: Quilla
This is even better than propping me up beside the jukebox!
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:38:52 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(just undo it)
To: Quilla
This brings an entirely new level of meaning to the expression “shoot me now”.
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:40:00 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: Quilla; Joe Boucher
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:44:20 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(just undo it)
To: Quilla
Why would I pay this company $1,250 to load 250 rounds of ammo when I could do it myself at my kitchen table with my Lyman press for about 15 cents a round?
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:44:34 PM PDT
by
Fido969
To: Malone LaVeigh
AW MAN! Cologne
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:44:46 PM PDT
by
70th Division
(I love my country but fear my government!)
To: Quilla
Could give another meaning to
“I have a bullet with your name on it”
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:51:47 PM PDT
by
Hotmetal
To: Quilla
OMG, this place is only about 15 miles from where I grew up.
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posted on
08/02/2011 2:24:56 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(JMO but I reserve the right to be wrong...)
To: Fido969
Why would I pay this company $1,250 to load 250 rounds of ammo when I could do it myself at my kitchen table with my Lyman press for about 15 cents a round?Great idea! I could leave my Lee Turret Press to my son and have him produce some black powder rounds with my ashes mixed in with the powder. Instead of Cream of Wheat or grits, my ashes could be used as a filler for a reduced power target load.
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posted on
08/02/2011 2:26:34 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: Quilla; dynachrome; 2111USMC; TheOldLady
LOL
From the web site Holy Smoke
My friend smiled and said "You know I've thought about this for some time and I want to be cremated. Then I want my ashes put into some turkey load shotgun shells and have someone that knows how to turkey hunt use the shotgun shells with my ashes to shoot a turkey. That way I will rest in peace knowing that the last thing that one turkey will see is me, screaming at him at about 900 feet per second."
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posted on
08/02/2011 3:01:39 PM PDT
by
AZ .44 MAG
(Repeal Obama)
To: AZ .44 MAG
Hunter S. Thompson had his ashes shot out of a cannon after he committted suicide. quite a spectacle
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posted on
08/02/2011 3:07:52 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: Slings and Arrows; Joe Brower
To ping or not to ping. That is the question.
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posted on
08/02/2011 3:10:50 PM PDT
by
TheOldLady
(FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
To: dynachrome
Would have been more of a spectacle if he’d used the cannon to commit suicide.
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posted on
08/02/2011 3:36:54 PM PDT
by
AZ .44 MAG
(Repeal Obama)
To: Psalm 144; West Texas Chuck
One should never mention “loved ones” [or should I say “former”] and ammo in the same sentence to me.
:)
/still cranky over the redhead snarks
LOL
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posted on
08/02/2011 4:19:35 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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