Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Drugs?
I was pretty close to my late grandfather.
I still own a jackknife of his, and his bow tie. I'd never actually wear a bow tie, but I'm also never going to get rid of it. People are funny like that when it comes to mementos of deceased loved ones.
So it was this past Wednesday when the Wyoming Highway Patrol pulled over two young men and allegedly found some drug paraphernalia along with a small amount of marijuana. No, I know what you're thinking, and it wasn't his grandpa's pipe. After searching the car the cops discovered a suspicious plastic baggy filled with a substance the officers thought was an illegal drug.
They contacted the owner of the car, the girlfriend of one of the men, who assured the officers they had made a mistake, as the bag not only did not contain drugs, but did contain the remains of her deceased grandmother.
Oops.
Apparently, the woman was so close to her late grandmother, that she kept her cremated ashes in her car. According to a police spokesman, the officers returned the ashes.
