I see Dead People

willk · 23 August 2010, 12:17

Mondays tend to throw me the odd curve ball.

Today there was a parcel on my desk (addressed to my business). So I did what you do and opened it.

There were two dead people inside! Nicely cremated and wrapped in bubble wrap, mind...

And a note to say that a relative of theirs would be collecting them in a few weeks (he's visiting my area and thought that seeing as how my surname and his were the same and all, I have no probs hosting the pair for a while)

Sweet

Does kinda beg the question why did he not just pop 'em in his carry-on luggage? Here, maybe they're not people. Maybe they're Class A drugs?

jambo · 23 August 2010, 12:33

Thats what you get for being so well known and oblidging. You will have to keep this one going to tell us the end. It is certainly one you can tell your grand children when their older!!

B

wiLlfish · 23 August 2010, 12:43

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There were two dead people inside! Nicely cremated and wrapped in bubble wrap, mind...

saiyin thay woz ded nobburs woz mi iydea ov a likkul jowke,. itts reely enrichid yewranium forr a likkul projject iym werkin onn,

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So I did what you do and opened it.

Bigmuz7 · 23 August 2010, 12:44

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Originally Posted by willk

Maybe they're Class A drugs?

Well theres only one way to fid out

willk · 23 August 2010, 12:47

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Originally Posted by wiLlfish

itts reely enrichid yewranium forr a likkul projject iym werkin onn,

doo yew noyt meen iranium?

Erin · 23 August 2010, 13:42

Reminds me of a story about a family who flew into India with grandma in an urn to scatter her ashes. It was mid summer and the airport had those cooling fans fitted to the ceiling all over the place. Customs took an interest in the package, and well you can guess the rest. The ceiling fans must have been on high speed and grandma was distributed nicely all over the arrivals hall

prairie tuber · 23 August 2010, 13:47

Never heard of anything like this before.

I'd also be pretty suspicious of it being a contraband. I can't imagine anybody sending the ashen remains of a loved one to a total stranger for later pickup (esp. with no prior arrangements). Seems like a police matter to me.

Nos4r2 · 23 August 2010, 14:45

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Originally Posted by prairie tuber

Never heard of anything like this before.

I'd also be pretty suspicious of it being a contraband. I can't imagine anybody sending the ashen remains of a loved one to a total stranger for later pickup (esp. with no prior arrangements). Seems like a police matter to me.

I think I'd be checking out where they were sent from very carefully!

wiLlfish · 23 August 2010, 16:03

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doo yew noyt meen iranium?

gow an digg sum spudds orr sumfink

downt mes wiv mi stuf orr ther cud bee sum forlowt

wiLf

BruceB · 23 August 2010, 16:13

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Originally Posted by prairie tuber

Never heard of anything like this before.

I'd also be pretty suspicious of it being a contraband. I can't imagine anybody sending the ashen remains of a loved one to a total stranger for later pickup (esp. with no prior arrangements). Seems like a police matter to me.

Maybe, but you live in an almost civilised part of the world, remember willk lives in Ireland

willk · 23 August 2010, 16:43

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I think I'd be checking out where they were sent from very carefully!

They were posted (US Mail) from Rapid River, Missouri, Benighted Straits.

I've called 'em Dusty and Ashlie until I can ascertain their correct names

I think I might be related to them. Shame I missed the wake

jambo · 23 August 2010, 17:09

[ Shame I missed the wake

[/QUOTE]

You could always organise an auld country one for them just to be hospitable

J

RAD · 23 August 2010, 18:02

This thread is useless without pictures!!!!

Hightower · 23 August 2010, 18:25

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Originally Posted by willk

They were posted (US Mail) from Rapid River, Missouri, Benighted Straits.

I've called 'em Dusty and Ashlie until I can ascertain their correct names

I think I might be related to them. Shame I missed the wake

You could always take em out in your boat and show em a different type of wake

Burial at Sea

willk · 23 August 2010, 18:48

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This thread is useless without pictures!!!!

Yes, I HAD thought of that, but it seemed a bit Disrespectful...

Might lower the tone on RIBnet a bit...

FWIW, they're quite plain dressers, simple matching Ziplocs and a bubblewrap "carelayer". No doubt I'll find out more later.

Biggers - I had considered a leeeedle sniff of Dusty, but I'm strictly an Ethanol Abuser and have no grá for de drugs, loike. And, well, eeeuww, she might be me cousin or something!

Bigmuz7 · 23 August 2010, 19:45

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Biggers - I had considered a leeeedle sniff of Dusty, but I'm strictly an Ethanol Abuser and have no grá for de drugs, loike. And, well, eeeuww, she might be me cousin or something!

Me neither .. but it takes all sorts .. I find an odd drachm dangerous enough too , but yes .. that was the reason for my

.. I mean what if one of them was incontinent ?

willk · 23 August 2010, 19:52

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I mean what if one of them was from incontinent ?

No dude, they're from North America...

Poly · 23 August 2010, 20:48

Willk,

When scattering ashes recently we enjoyed a wee dram of Talisker afterwards!

Now, tell us, what did it say on the Custom's declaration form/invoice?

willk · 23 August 2010, 21:00

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Now, tell us, what did it say on the Custom's declaration form/invoice?

"Ashes"

willk · 23 August 2010, 21:03

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"Ashes"

Which I kinda didn't pick up on before I opened it. Had it smelled of C4, I would have thought "Martini" and had a hireling go down the parking lot and open it...