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I am back. I came across some more "news" that I found interesting. I will share the story with y'all but I do have some questions about it. Here is the story. By the way, I still have not clotheslined a bicycle rider but it is getting harder and harder to resist the urge.

Chips Found in Place of Woman's Ashes
HOUSTON - Two daughters have sued a synagogue after they found a potato chip can in place of their mother's remains behind the locked, glass door of her niche in a mausoleum.
When the women visited Vivian Shulman Lieberman's niche in a Houston mausoleum a year ago, they found the cedar chest containing her ashes missing and a can of sour-cream-and-onion potato chips in its place.
The ashes are still missing, said Philip Hilder, an attorney for Lieberman's two daughters.
"We have been devastated," Marcelle Lieberman said this week. "We hope we will be able to find her remains before we die, to give us closure of some sort."
Marcelle Lieberman and her sister, Harriet Lieberman Mellow, filed the lawsuit recently against Congregation Beth Israel and two funeral businesses.
Officials with the synagogue and the two companies deny responsibility.
"It is obviously very upsetting to the family and to all three of the defendants," said Neal Manne, a lawyer and Beth Israel board member who is representing the synagogue. "But a lawsuit is about whether there is any legal responsibility, and Congregation Beth Israel did not do anything wrong."
The sisters are also suing the companies that arranged for their mother's cremation and inurnment, Levy Funeral Directors and Schlitzberger's Family Craft Monumental Services. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages, saying each defendant intentionally inflicted emotional distress.
In July 2003, Marcelle Lieberman visited the niche. Harriet Mellow visited that fall.
They said they returned to the mausoleum together on their father's birthday, June 10, 2004, and discovered the potato chip can in their mother's niche.
A locksmith opened the niche and Houston police took custody of the can, which still contained potato chips.
"To their added horror," the lawsuit states, "Harriet and Marcelle learned that the can had been visible in the niche for at least six months."
The lawsuit alleges that Schlitzberger's failed to close and lock the niche.
None of the employees have a key, company co-owner Dianne Schlitzberger said.
"Putting the name tag on the box is a little thing," she said. "We wouldn't ruin our reputation by losing something so valuable."
The lawsuit also claims that Levy Funeral Directors failed to ensure that Vivian Lieberman's ashes were in a secure place.
Greg Bolton, a spokesman for Service Corporation International, the parent company of Levy, said the funeral home upheld its responsibilities.
"We fulfilled the family's wishes by arranging for the cremation and delivering the remains to the custody of the mausoleum," he said. "We had no involvement or knowledge of anything that happened after that."

Now, first of all, I was under the belief that cremation was not a traditional, and in fact prohibited, in Jewish law. I am thinking then that the karmic sin has been played out on their mother. I do not want to make fun, but perhaps in some bizzare karmic turn the mother was reincarnated as a can of sour cream and onion chips. It is not something I would aspire to, but that is just me. I am hoping to come back as a small kitchen appliance, a food processor or cool, chrome toaster, again that is just me.

Who wants somebody elses ashes? It is like the switch was made in a effort to train for some sort of Indiana Jones inspired attempt to "steal" some valuable antiquity by replacing it with a similar weighted and sized can. (Think of the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark). Just something that passed for a thought.

There is a story out of Japan where two cats set their owner's house on fire by urinating on a fax machine, shorting it out and starting an electrical fire. This is a case where the pet goats may be safer. I mean no self respecting goat will piss on the fax machine, they will just use the floor or carpet, bed, sofa, etc. but not the fax machine. They will eat the electrical cords but that is because they are as dumb as, well, goats. Both are minions of the devil, I say. Look at the damage caused and fires started. Crazy cat and goat people all of them.

On that happy note, have a great weekend! Ciao!