I am glad to have such a strange topic for my first blog of my comp two class. The headline “Burglars snort man’s ashes, thought it was cocaine.” If this doesn’t scream ridiculous I really don’t know what does. As always I use Yahoo News for my source because they have an Odd News tab and it really does have some crazy stories.
This whole fiasco took place in the central Florida town of Silver Springs Shores on December 15th. The ashes were stolen for a woman’s home and the thieves made off with an urn that contained the ashes of her father and another container that had the remains of her two beloved Great Danes. Electronic equipment and jewelry was also stolen at the same time. The burglars then snorted the cremated remains of the man and two dogs because they believed that the substance was an illegal drug. After another burglary attempt at a nearby home last week five teens were arrested in connection with the first robbery. The sheriff’s report said, "The suspects mistook the ashes for either cocaine or heroin. It was soon discovered that the suspects snorted some of the ashes believing they were snorting cocaine." After the teens realized their mistake they discussed returning the rest of the remains to the house but they were afraid that their fingerprints were on the urn so they threw it in the lake. Police divers have been attempting to recover the remains and the teens are being charged with numerous charges.
This story kind of makes me think that the teens were already messed up on drugs. They had to be out of their minds to think an urn with ashes in it was cocaine or heroine. It was also a middle-aged woman’s house for goodness sake, what would she be doing with drugs? I guess given the circumstances this story is self explanatory and the most likely conclusion I can come to is that they were desperate for drugs so they broke into the house to steal things to sell for drugs when they came across a substance that looked similar in their whacked out minds.
That is just down right creepy! Here I am freaking out just at the thought. I mean I would never ever do coke or anything. But I have this image of a urn falling over and a gust of wind blowing the dust into my face omg I have to shower now just thinking about it!
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