A Long Island woman found more than she bargained for while attempting to scatter the cremated remains of her father.
Jennie Spooner, of Amityville, had planned on giving her father the send-off he deserved. She dusted some of his ashes on a dinosaur in the Museum of Natural History, attached some to the tail of a kite and spilled some on the water at Canaan Lake as her dad wanted, reports The New York Post.
Before she could continue spreading her father’s ashes at his favorite haunts throughout the city, Spooner discovered debris mixed in with the cremated remains. The debris included:
- Pieces of Bone
- Pieces of a broom
- Glass shards
- Metal staples
- Partially melted crucifix
“My heart was pounding. I said, ‘What the heck is that? A spring? It flipped me out,” said Spooner, whose father died eight months ago from pneumonia and an infection. He was 79.
Spooner hired an attorney and is considering a lawsuit against the funeral and the crematorium.
Both the funeral home and the crematorium have declined comment.
