Good way to spread dead friend's ashes.

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Friend flushes baseball fan's remains down ballpark toilets

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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man is on a mission to flush the cremated remains of his lifelong friend — a plumber — down ballpark toilets around the country.

Tom McDonald tells The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/2qodwCS ) that it's a fitting tribute for Roy Riegel.

The two baseball fans were childhood friends in Queens, not far from — wait for it — Flushing Meadows, where the Mets play.

Like baseball, this endeavor has rules. The game has to be in progress when McDonald sprinkles the ashes into the toilet from a little plastic bottle.

So far, he's done the deed at 16 stadiums.

Riegel also was a music fan: In Cleveland, McDonald flushed ashes at both Progressive Field and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

In Chicago, McDonald did his duty at a White Sox game, skipping Wrigley Field because the Cubs are longtime rivals of the Mets.

"I know people might think it's weird, and if it were anyone else's ashes, I'd agree," McDonald said. "But for Roy, this is the perfect tribute to a plumber and a baseball fan and just a brilliant, wild guy."

Riegel's family agreed to share a portion of the ashes after his death in 2008. McDonald spoons out a little each time, from an old peanut can, wrapped in Mets ticket stubs, that he keeps next to World Series highlight videos and his collection of 149 baseball Hall of Fame autographs.

Hank Riegel, of Waterloo, New York, said his brother would appreciate the offbeat gesture.

"He'd be like, 'Oh, yeah, do that,'" Riegel said. "He would definitely approve of it. Never once did Roy follow the rules."

McDonald has enough ashes left for one more tribute. He hopes to do it at Durham Athletic Park in North Carolina, where the 1988 movie "Bull Durham" was filmed.

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Fighting -

LOL!!

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Down the shitter you go!

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Thats awesome. That dude is a good friend.

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We were going to spread my daughter's ashes at the beach. She LOVED the beach/ocean. It's been a little over 2 years, and we just can't bring ourselves to do it.
We need to decide something. Right now, she's just hanging out on my dresser, just chillin.
I say good morning and goodnight to her everyday.
Kinda fucked up, now that I type it out, and read it.

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eubie5 - We were going to spread my daughter's ashes at the beach. She LOVED the beach/ocean. It's been a little over 2 years, and we just can't bring ourselves to do it.
We need to decide something. Right now, she's just hanging out on my dresser, just chillin.
I say good morning and goodnight to her everyday.
Kinda fucked up, now that I type it out, and read it.
My gf is having the same issue getting rid of her fathers urn.
Just do it. Stop keeping it in limbo and just let her free. You will still have all the memories and all that, but i think you will feel a lot better once youve set her free.

Sorry for your loss, dont feel wierd about it, everyone handles death differently

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eubie5 - We were going to spread my daughter's ashes at the beach. She LOVED the beach/ocean. It's been a little over 2 years, and we just can't bring ourselves to do it.
We need to decide something. Right now, she's just hanging out on my dresser, just chillin.
I say good morning and goodnight to her everyday.
Kinda fucked up, now that I type it out, and read it.
Sorry to hear that man.

Just do it when it feels right for both of you.

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Asses to asses. Flush to flush...

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dipsheet - Asses to asses. Flush to flush...

And now we know who has won the internets for today. 

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Thanks guys. Yeah, I know what we need to do, we just couldn't pull the trigger last time we went

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eubie5 - We were going to spread my daughter's ashes at the beach. She LOVED the beach/ocean. It's been a little over 2 years, and we just can't bring ourselves to do it.
We need to decide something. Right now, she's just hanging out on my dresser, just chillin.
I say good morning and goodnight to her everyday.
Kinda fucked up, now that I type it out, and read it.


Fuck man I just teared up reading that.  So sorry to hear about your loss, bro.

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mixedmartialfarts -
eubie5 - We were going to spread my daughter's ashes at the beach. She LOVED the beach/ocean. It's been a little over 2 years, and we just can't bring ourselves to do it.
We need to decide something. Right now, she's just hanging out on my dresser, just chillin.
I say good morning and goodnight to her everyday.
Kinda fucked up, now that I type it out, and read it.


Fuck man I just teared up reading that.  So sorry to hear about your loss, bro.

Sorry bro, didn't mean to bring you down.

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I took a tour of Wrigley Field and they literally confiscated a family's ashes from them bc it is strictly prohibited...they escorted them out and gave them the ashes back

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I always told my wife that when I'm dead and cremated once a year on my birthday put me in a douche and run me through 1 last time. 

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My brother-in-law committed suicide last year and as a tribute to him, Mrs. Moccaco and I took some of his ashes to California and spread them where Walter spread Donny's ashes. Matthew loved the Big Lebowski and would often quote lines from the movie. He also hated the fucking eagles, man...

He loved golf, so before we spread his ashes, I said "Matthew who loved golf".......

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eubie5 - We were going to spread my daughter's ashes at the beach. She LOVED the beach/ocean. It's been a little over 2 years, and we just can't bring ourselves to do it.
We need to decide something. Right now, she's just hanging out on my dresser, just chillin.
I say good morning and goodnight to her everyday.
Kinda fucked up, now that I type it out, and read it.


My first Wife's ashed are on top of the piano she loved at my In-Laws place and I visit her every day.



At the funeral at the last minute I couldn't bear to put her in the ground because I knew I would be back the cemetary at some point, crazy as a sh*t house rat, digging her up so she wouldn't be alone.

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eubie5 - We were going to spread my daughter's ashes at the beach. She LOVED the beach/ocean. It's been a little over 2 years, and we just can't bring ourselves to do it.
We need to decide something. Right now, she's just hanging out on my dresser, just chillin.
I say good morning and goodnight to her everyday.
Kinda fucked up, now that I type it out, and read it.

My ex-dad-in-law died 3 weeks ago. Was out at a local lake fishing with his son when he had a massive heart attack and died.

Most of the family spent the next several days together (my ex isn't in the picture and I maintain a relationship with the rest of the family for Mini-Wiggy's sake). Was talking to my ex-mom-in-law about what they were gonna do with his ashes.

She said they wanted to spread at least some of them at the lake he was at, as fishing there with his son was one of his favorite things to do.

He and my ex-mom-in-law also took 2-4 trips out to the Outer Banks (I live in NC) every year. I'm not much of a fan, but they loved it. Especially during the fall.

Most of the family is real conservative and religious. I'm the guy that cusses, has tons of tattoos (that you can see), and drinks beer. And everyone knows it. Probably why most of them and I aren't exactly close.

He and I weren't really either, but I always felt like he shared stuff with me he wouldn't the other men in the family. He loved smoking cigars, and we smoked together on several occasions. Sometimes they were on beach trips with the family. Sometimes it was just on their back deck during a family shindig.

He also loved dark beer. Would often order one when the family would go out to eat. If I was there, he'd always encourage me to get something so we could exchange sips of each other's beer.

Anyway, I told her she should keep some of his ashes. This fall, the entire family should take at least a weekend trip out to the OBX. Take his ashes to the ocean. Bring something to play music on, so some Janis Joplin and "Under the Boardwalk" (two of his all-time favs) can be playing the background. I can light up a cigar and flick a few ashes down while his are spread.

Then everyone goes out to find a kickass seafood buffet (something else he loved). That way I can get myself a dark beer.

It'd be like one last trip to the beach with Papa. I'd get to have one last cigar and beer with him, and he'd get to have someone to share his last cigar and beer with at the beach.

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Fighting -

Fist thing that came to my mind.

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dipsheet - Asses to asses. Flush to flush...
Beautiful