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Mom's 'Shock and Disbelief' As Toddler Eats Grandpa's Ashes
Newsweek ^ | April 9, 2025 | Jack Beresford

Posted on 04/12/2025 1:19:45 PM PDT by plain talk

A mom has described how she was left in complete shock after discovering her 1-year-old son had been eating her father's ashes.

Up until recently, Natasha Emeny, from Lincolnshire in the U.K., had only ever posted lip-synching videos to her TikTok account. But that all changed after a spot of home improvement kick-started a dramatic chain of events.

"I had just moved some furniture the day before to have new flooring laid," Emeny told Newsweek. "I put my dad's ashes where I thought they would be safe, but I forgot to put them up somewhere high. I went to put some laundry upstairs and, by the time I came back down a few minutes later, he'd got them."

So I thought, 'Why not share and have a laugh about it?' My dad absolutely would be laughing about it."

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


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Strange story but children get into all sorts of things.
1 posted on 04/12/2025 1:19:45 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

Frankly...I don’t believe the story.


2 posted on 04/12/2025 1:24:22 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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“My dad absolutely would be laughing about it."

Maybe not so much if it was the dog eating the ashes.

3 posted on 04/12/2025 1:24:42 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: plain talk

This is a hoot, given the immediately preceding article posted.


4 posted on 04/12/2025 1:26:30 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
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To: Sacajaweau

How many one-year olds have you raised?

From what I hear, I probably would have figured out how to get in and chow down when I was the kid’s age. At least until Mom started mixing liberal doses of cayenne powder with various things that I was likely to stick in my mouth.

My favourite toy for a time was whatever gathered in a dent/hole in the kitchen floor.


5 posted on 04/12/2025 1:31:16 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
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To: plain talk

The question I have is why were those ashes put where a toddler could get access to them. This sounds like absolute stupidity on her part or a mentally disturbed someone seeking attention.


6 posted on 04/12/2025 1:34:57 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: plain talk

My favorite part of this movie:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=meet+the+parents+urn+scene&t=ipad&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DuFtpqFtCIww


7 posted on 04/12/2025 1:47:49 PM PDT by doc maverick
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This is a hoot, given the immediately preceding article posted.

I wonder if the little guy's reaction was "I'd say grandpa tastes kind of like Starbucks."

8 posted on 04/12/2025 1:57:23 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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3 children and 5 grand children...

But I have a wonderful letter that my mom wrote to my dad during WWII. "She had that look and I saw where the wallpaper was missing. I said "spit" and out it came."

Apparently my worst offense was when mom would put me on the front porch. Apparently, I liked to be free...and she wrote to my dad "the only thing she couldn't get off was one shoe and sock".

9 posted on 04/12/2025 1:59:51 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: plain talk

Pica


10 posted on 04/12/2025 2:13:22 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Completely staged. Upon that horrific discovery, you grab your phone and video it? Uh huh.


11 posted on 04/12/2025 2:14:42 PM PDT by Right Brother (I don't really care Margaret.)
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To: antidemoncrat

I know it’s against the rules, but read the freakin’ article.


12 posted on 04/12/2025 2:25:20 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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“I put my dad’s ashes where I thought they would be safe, but I forgot to put them up somewhere high.”

I did read it. Suppose it was something poisonous.

“So I thought, ‘Why not share and have a laugh about it?’ My dad absolutely would be laughing about it.”

Some folks might consider it funny but many other folks might think it’s making light of something that could have been extremely dangerous.


13 posted on 04/12/2025 2:45:38 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: plain talk

Better than eating the old codger’s raw corpse.


14 posted on 04/12/2025 2:46:31 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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I did read it. Suppose it was something poisonous.

Or a Gaboon viper. Get CPS to take that child.

15 posted on 04/12/2025 2:50:18 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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Strange story but children get into all sorts of things.
Not when they're being properly watched and things are put out of reach.
16 posted on 04/12/2025 2:58:59 PM PDT by lewislynn
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To: antidemoncrat

I imagine that if she had had arsenic she would have automatically treated it in a very different way.


17 posted on 04/12/2025 3:11:24 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
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To: plain talk

When the diaper is changed.... voila!!


18 posted on 04/12/2025 3:12:02 PM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rush!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

...or most any breakfast cereal.


19 posted on 04/12/2025 3:15:45 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Hieronymus
My parents rented a cottage by the shore for a vacation with at the time 4 kids. I was the youngest at 8 years old. Within the first hour there I turned on the out side water faucet and flooded the underside of the house, as a punishment I was to sit in the corner of a room and not move. That is when I noticed little red buttons on the floor. I picked them up and ate them. Turns out they were poison ant traps. I became very sick and my parents had to bring me to the hospital and have my stomach pumped. I ruined the vacation but my Parents had a story to tell for years about what a pain in the ass I was and never let me forget it.
20 posted on 04/12/2025 3:26:32 PM PDT by ABN 505 (+)
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