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Lawsuit says officer dumped baby's ashes (mistook his daughter's remains for cocaine.)
Orlando Sentinel ^
| August 2, 2005
| Robert Sargent
Posted on 08/05/2005 6:53:10 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: Calvin Locke
A couple of years ago, some burglars thought the container labeled "Charlie" was cocaine, and started snorting it. The homeowners were sort of taken aback at the ashes spread over the table or counter, mentioning to police that the burglars must have been pretty thorough to sift through the dog's ashes. The cops looked at the pattern in the ashes, looked at the urn, and looked at the name on the urn, and explained that "Charlie" was slang for cocaine.
Haverhill, MA, ~2002, iirc.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_83967.html (UK).
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posted on
08/05/2005 8:40:38 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: Calvin Locke
"I wonder what Great Dane tastes like...."
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posted on
08/05/2005 8:42:11 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(...somebody was going to post it...why not me?)
To: TheBattman
Actually, my will states that at my death, I wish to be cremated. It further states that said ashes be mixed into a bucket of paint, and that my widower's bedroom ceiling is to be painted using this bucket of paint.
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posted on
08/05/2005 9:14:34 PM PDT
by
basil
(Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
To: TheBattman
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posted on
08/05/2005 9:16:08 PM PDT
by
basil
(Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
To: elkfersupper
I don't know if I am shocked or relieved he didn't taste-test it before deciding t was cocaine. :^S
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posted on
08/05/2005 10:43:15 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: umgud
Aw, man. I just posted a joke about that before I read yours.
"hmm... tastes like China White."
"No, actually, that was closer to Chyna Phillips."
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posted on
08/05/2005 10:45:04 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: dangus
great minds (or at least whitty ones) think alike
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posted on
08/05/2005 10:46:53 PM PDT
by
umgud
(Comment removed by poster before moderator could get to it)
To: RichInOC
>> "I wonder what Great Dane tastes like...." <<
I wonder if Marilyn Monroe knew what a Berliner tastes like.
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posted on
08/05/2005 10:49:04 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: dangus
...heh, heh, heh, heh....
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posted on
08/05/2005 10:57:46 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
("Ahsk not what Jack can do for you...ahsk what you can do for Jack.")
To: TheBattman
Sounds like a morbid inability to "let go". The loss of a child is a lifelong devastation.
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posted on
08/05/2005 11:09:02 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
To: elkfersupper
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posted on
08/05/2005 11:22:28 PM PDT
by
endthematrix
("an ominous vacancy"...I mean, JOHN ROBERTS now fills this space!)
To: DJ MacWoW
I am in NO WAY discounting the devastation of loosing a child - I can't imagine (and don't want to) what I would feel if my duaguter were to die -
What I do question is the desire to keep the remains of the deceased. I would prefer not not remember them as a pile of ashes, but as the whole person they once were, and could be in heaven.
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posted on
08/06/2005 5:21:29 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of Satan)
To: TheBattman
What I do question is the desire to keep the remains of the deceased. I would prefer not not remember them as a pile of ashes, but as the whole person they once were, and could be in heaven. That is the personal business of the father. Any thoughts on the appropriateness of the cop's actions?
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posted on
08/06/2005 9:33:49 AM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Nightshift
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posted on
08/06/2005 9:36:38 AM PDT
by
tutstar
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To: TheBattman
What I do question is the desire to keep the remains of the deceased. People deal with grief in different ways. Your way may not be someone elses. It's not unusual to keep cremains. However the article says:"Cline emptied the ashes from a cross-shaped pendant worn by Burnham,". This would not be a lot of ashes and is comparable to a lock of hair. I saw "grief jewelry" in a museum. It was bracelets etc woven of the hair of the deceased and it was intricately woven into jewelry. This was done in the 1800's. We have become a society that says "Ewwwwwww!". It's truly not up to us to disapprove of how another handles grief.
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posted on
08/06/2005 9:54:29 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
To: Lokibob
Yep. That was definitely funny.
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posted on
08/06/2005 10:00:47 AM PDT
by
techcor
(DUmmy screed: "To insanity, and beyond!")
To: Ken H
Cop was an insensitive jerk.....
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posted on
08/06/2005 12:15:53 PM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of Satan)
To: contemplator
"On the surface it seems a strange thing to be carrying around with you as you are walking around."Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie each wore a pendant around their neck with the other's blood in it.
But that's Hollywood.
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posted on
08/07/2005 11:10:41 PM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Deep within every dilemma is a solution that involves explosives)
To: basil
That is funny as heck. LOLOL.
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posted on
08/07/2005 11:18:20 PM PDT
by
patton
("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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