The Latest In Fashionable Smoking Accessories
Well, the anti-smoking zealots will have to come up with a whole new campaign after news of this hits the circuit! The very latest in ultra-fashionable smoking accessories. No, not a humidor full of smuggled Cuban cigars. A pipe made of a human thigh bone and an ashtray made from a human skull.
FITCHBURG, Mass. - Police say a gravedigger stole body parts including a skull and a thigh bone from a broken casket at a church cemetery and took them home as smoking accessories.
"While he was digging a grave, a casket was broken open, so (investigators) believe he took the body parts to make an ashtray and a pipe," Police Lt. Kevin O'Brien told the Sentinel & Enterprise of Fitchburg. He said a police report didn't identify the grave, which was at St. Bernard's Cemetery.
Keith Chartrand, 30, of Fitchburg, also is accused of killing his wife's dog. Police charged him with removing a body from a grave and cruelty to animals.
Officers went to his apartment on Wednesday after Chartrand's wife complained that her husband had killed her dog, then told them she had found the body parts among his belongings.
Fitchburg District Court Judge Arthur Haley III ordered Chartrand held on $50,000 bail at a court hearing on Wednesday where Chartrand told the judge the charge against him was "bogus."
Personally, we use the skulls for candy dishes. (That isn't a joke, incidentally, but the skull is plastic, not real. It's kind of a Halloween thing that simply carried over year-round. And it's in the office as a gag. Although people do look at us oddly when we fish a jellybean out).
Weird Stuff | Gaius Thursday, 21 June , 2007
By K T Cat, Friday, 22 June , 2007 @ 4:06 am
His wife, upon seeing his trove of body parts - “Oh Keith, you’re not the man I married! You’re more like the man I married with a few extra limbs, organs and heads!”
By Bleepless, Friday, 22 June , 2007 @ 6:56 pm
My late grandmother was a doctor who did a lot of work at home. Inside her treatment table, besides the linens, was the top of a human skull. She kept clothespins in it.