Category: Strange News

Funeral Home Cremates Woman by Mistake, Gives Ashes to Wrong People

HOUSTON — A Texas family is suing a funeral home accused of cremating a woman who was supposed to be buried, then giving her ashes to another family.

Roberta Salazar’s relatives say the 79-year-old helped plan her own funeral, down to the dress she would wear. Instead of embalming Salazar’s body, however, they say Grace Funeral Home in Victoria not only cremated her — but gave the remains to the wrong family who then buried the ashes, thinking they were burying their loved one.

Now, the Salazar family is suing the funeral home for $50 million in damages, and the family’s attorney says the story only gets worse.

The lawsuit claims the funeral home let the Salazar family know they had mistakenly cremated Roberta’s body – but only days before her scheduled funeral in March of 2017. Their attorney says the funeral home had first tried to cover up the error by trying to convince the family to have a closed casket, saying the body had deteriorated.

The funeral home gave the following statement to KIAH:

“Grace Funeral Home deeply regrets the mistake in cremating Ms. Salazar’s body […] specific details were provided to assure the family that the cremated remains provided for burial were those of Ms. Salazar. There were no efforts to deceive anyone about what occurred.”

Salazar has four children, 22 grand children with 51 great grandchildren and 14 great-great grandchildren. Salazar’s faith also forbids cremation, according to KIAH.

The family says they will bury Salazar’s cremated ashes next to her late husband.

The funeral home has just over two weeks to respond to the $50 million lawsuit.

via fox5sandiego.com

Check out this video of the family discussing the devastation this gaffe has caused.

Colombian Gang Puts a $70,000 Bounty On Drug-Sniffing Dog

BOGOTA, Columbia — Her talent for sniffing out drugs has led to the capture of at least 245 people and the seizure of 9 tons of cocaine from the powerful Urabeños gang in Colombia.

But now Sombra (Shadow, in English), a 6-year-old German shepherd who is incredibly popular among children and adults alike, is in danger.

The Urabeños mafia has put a bounty of 200 million pesos ($70,000) on her head, according to the Colombian police, so the dog had to be moved to Bogota’s El Dorado airport over fears for her safety.

Along with her usual handler, Jose Rojas, Sombra is now escorted by other officers to keep an eye on her, police said.

Over the past three years, Sombra has become “the torment of Otoniel, seizing 9 tons of cocaine,” anti-narcotics police said in a tweet.

Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias “Otoniel,” is the head of the Urabeños, one of Colombia’s most powerful criminal groups and one of the country’s most wanted men.

“Our German shepherd, Sombra, has participated in almost 300 operations,” Col. Tito Castellanos, the deputy director for the anti-narcotics police, told Colombian news agency RCN.

She has already won two K-9 Medals of Courage for her valor and might get a third one this year, he said.

Originally posted on Fox 5 San Diego

 

A hit on the dog?

Interesting…Thoughts?

Louisiana Televangelist Says God Told Him He Needs $54 Million Private Jet Then Asks His Followers for Donations

SMH! These false prophets ministers wonder why religion is deemed one of the world’s oldest shakedowns outside of prostitution.

I am all for prosperity but it is extremely hard to wrap my head around the church’s “need” for a $54 MILLION jet. Unless Duplantis is jetsetting around the world nonstop saving God’s people, I can’t see how this is justified other than pure G-R-E-E-D.

What a con.

WWJD?

Via KTLA – Jesse Duplantis Ministries has three private jets, but Duplantis says he needs one more. As the televangelist who preaches the controversial “prosperity gospel” explained to his followers in a video last week, if Jesus Christ walked the earth today, “he wouldn’t be riding a donkey.’

There’s just one thing: To buy that $54 million private jet (Duplantis has his eye on a Dassault Falcon 7x), the Louisiana preacher needs his followers to donate money to the cause. As for those aforementioned three jets, the most recent of which was purchased in 2006, the ministry has been “just burning them up for the Lord Jesus Christ,” Duplantis said in the video, according to NOLA.com.

The Falcon 7x, with a range of 5,950 nautical miles, is needed “so we can go anywhere in the world in one stop,” he explained. None of his other jets can do that.

Duplantis told his followers that God told him, “I want you to believe in me for a Falcon 7X.” He said viewers should “pray about becoming a partner to it.”

He addressed the possible controversial nature of his request, according to KTLA sister station WGNO in New Orleans: “Now some people believe that preachers shouldn’t have jets. I really believe that preachers ought to go on every available voice, every available outlet, to get this gospel preached to the world.”

He has defended his use of private planes in the past in what the Washington Post called a “widely mocked” video in which he and another preacher said, among other things, that you can’t speak openly to God on a commercial airliner.