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Exploding coconut 'sent fear' through crematorium staff
BBC ^ | 2 February 2018 | 2 February 2018

Posted on 02/03/2018 8:03:35 AM PST by Rebelbase

A coconut that was placed inside a coffin "sent fear" through staff at a crematorium when it exploded.

Bolton Council has urged mourners to abide by crematorium rules and not "slip" items into coffins.

Donna Ball, Assistant Director of Community Services, said a "hell of an explosion can sometimes occur".

Other items of concern include mobile phones, TV remotes, e-cigarettes and bottles of alcohol.

Ms Ball told the BBC: "We are asking people to be considerate regarding the items they place into coffins before the cremation process.

"We have seen a rise in things like e-cigarettes, bottles of whisky and vodka, golf balls, sometimes golf clubs, and mobile phones. Mobile phones in particular are a real issue for us".

Ms Ball said: "Usually the funeral director will pick them up but sometimes things are slid inside peoples' pockets and they are just not picked up during the process, then when they go through the cremation process a hell of an explosion can sometimes occur".

She added that electrical items with batteries also push crematorium emissions up to "unacceptable levels".

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: bolton; bombshell; boom; callmeinthemorning; coconut; cremation; crematorium; exploding; lime; unitedkingdom
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Legitimate use of "BOOM" keyword.
1 posted on 02/03/2018 8:03:35 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase; Larry Lucido
Sine the reference is to coconut you can include "BOMBSHELL!" as well.
2 posted on 02/03/2018 8:08:03 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi

Just don’t put the lime in the coconut.


3 posted on 02/03/2018 8:18:31 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: Rebelbase

My plan is for fireworks.


4 posted on 02/03/2018 8:20:54 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: Rebelbase
The story doesn't explain why a coconut.
5 posted on 02/03/2018 8:22:25 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: Rebelbase

I knew some firefighters who responded to a fire at a local crematory. A very obese woman was being cremated and the rendered fat leaked out of the retort and had caught fire.


6 posted on 02/03/2018 8:23:09 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Rebelbase

Don’t be giving the muzzies any ideas.


7 posted on 02/03/2018 8:27:07 AM PST by moovova
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To: The Great RJ

im swallowing popcorn before I die.


8 posted on 02/03/2018 8:30:51 AM PST by Craftmore
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To: Rebelbase

Cellphones??? Who they gonna call??


9 posted on 02/03/2018 8:31:50 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: Rebelbase

That woke up the dead!


10 posted on 02/03/2018 8:32:56 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Rebelbase

Sometimes you feel like a nut...


11 posted on 02/03/2018 8:34:59 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of he Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ClearBlueSky

It was not unusual in the 19th century to put a rope in a coffin attached to a beloved topside so that if someone was buried alive he could ring the bell.


12 posted on 02/03/2018 8:35:16 AM PST by Mercat
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To: ClearBlueSky
"Cellphones??? Who they gonna call??"


13 posted on 02/03/2018 8:36:27 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Rebelbase

We blowed Eaker, NYTexan and Flyer up real good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16CS6XUUfV4


14 posted on 02/03/2018 8:41:30 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of he Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Rebelbase
Grandpa Joe was a tough old cowboy with grizzled hair, chiseled features, and hands tougher than barbed wire. I’d sit on his lap while he rocked in his favorite old chair on the porch, and he’d tell me again and again that his secret to living a long life was to sprinkle a pinch of gunpowder on his oatmeal every morning.

I stopped believing his tall tales when I grew up, but Grandpa Joe lived on for many years, enjoying perfect health until the ripe old age of 107. He left behind 14 children, 30 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren, 25 great-great-grandchildren, and a 15-foot crater where the crematorium used to be.

15 posted on 02/03/2018 8:45:13 AM PST by Redcitizen
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To: Rebelbase

E-cigarettes? At this point, there is no harm in using the real thing.


16 posted on 02/03/2018 8:47:08 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Rebelbase

well, at least it wasn’t ammo in there cooking off ...


17 posted on 02/03/2018 9:02:13 AM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Rebelbase

“Usually the funeral director will pick them up but sometimes things are slid inside peoples’ pockets and they are just not picked up during the process,”

I’ve never tried to slide a coconut into someone’s pocket. There must be a trick to it.


18 posted on 02/03/2018 9:17:08 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Rebelbase
Do any of you know what happens to the human head during a cremation?

Think coconut.

19 posted on 02/03/2018 9:18:32 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Rebelbase

20 posted on 02/03/2018 9:18:33 AM PST by dfwgator
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