Snorting a dead man

A bunch of thieves stole someone's ashes and snorted part of them then returned them. Keith Richards, where art thou?

By now everyone is familiar with Keith Richards’ 2007 revelation that he snorted the ashes of his father (cf. wikipedia):

In an April 2007 interview for NME magazine, music journalist Mark Beaumont asked Richards what the strangest thing he ever snorted was, and quoted him as replying: "My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared ... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."  (..) Richards later confirmed in an interview with Mojo magazine that he had, in fact, snorted his father's ashes – with no cocaine mixed in – before burying them under an oak tree: "I said I'd chopped him up like cocaine, not with. I opened his box up and ... out comes a bit of dad on the dining room table. I'm going, 'I can't use a brush and dustpan for this.'"

You would think that nobody would want to duplicate that experience, but some people might have done so inadvertently, according to CNN:

Police said they will search Thursday for what is left of the cremated remains of a man and two dogs that robbers stole from a Florida house and then snorted after mistakenly thinking it was cocaine. Members of the Marion County sheriff's department dive team say they will search a lake in the area where they think the remainder of the ashes may have been dumped. The robbery occurred in December in a home in the central Florida area of Silver Springs, the sheriff department said in a statement. A robbery crew ransacked the home taking electronics, jewelry and the cremated ashes of the homeowner's father and two Great Danes. "During the investigation, detectives learned that the ashes were taken because 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," a sheriff's department statement said. After learning that they had snorted the ashes of a dead man or dead dogs, the suspects discarded the rest of the ashes, authorities said. Three teens and two juveniles were arrested in the case, the sheriff's department said.

Sources / More info: flickr, cnn-ashes, wiki-keith [MarkDay] [TYT] [Shoutmouth]

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