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Posted on 08/05/2005 6:53:10 PM PDT by elkfersupper
TAVARES -- A father who accused a Mount Dora policeman last year of dumping out his infant daughter's cremated remains sued the city and the officer Monday. Filed in Lake Circuit Court, the lawsuit accuses the city and Officer Brad Cline of illegally stopping and searching Jason Burnham, 34, as he was walking home after Hurricane Charley. During the stop, Burnham's suit says, Cline emptied the ashes from a cross-shaped pendant worn by Burnham, suspecting it contained cocaine. "This is probably the most mean-spirited violation of a person's civil rights that I have seen in many years,"
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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.
"I wonder what Great Dane tastes like...."
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.
Actually--that's a joke.
I don't know if I am shocked or relieved he didn't taste-test it before deciding t was cocaine. :^S
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."
great minds (or at least whitty ones) think alike
>> "I wonder what Great Dane tastes like...." <<
I wonder if Marilyn Monroe knew what a Berliner tastes like.
...heh, heh, heh, heh....
The loss of a child is a lifelong devastation.
Strange poster at abovetopsecret says she is the Mother of Jason's two other children:
http://www.atsnn.com/story/114146.html
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.
That is the personal business of the father. Any thoughts on the appropriateness of the cop's actions?
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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.
Yep. That was definitely funny.
Cop was an insensitive jerk.....
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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That is funny as heck. LOLOL.
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