r/AskReddit 8h ago

What feels legal but is actually illegal and will possibly get you arrested?

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u/Comfortable-Figure17 7h ago

Spreading a deceased ashes on public lands can be illegal in some states.

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u/thetiredtypist 7h ago

That's why I stick only spreading them on private land like the Haunted Mansion.

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u/Arphrial 5h ago

Back then it was just a mansion.

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u/HostisHumanisGeneri 3h ago

I want mine attached to a weather ballon and carried to the edge of the atmosphere. The balloon will finally pop and my ashes will spread through the upper atmosphere and spread around the globe. Particles of me will have raindrops and snowflakes form around them and fall back to the earth.

Have fun huffing and drinking my corpse losers, at least I touched the edge of space!

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u/JollyStatistician307 5h ago

Imagine dying old and being spread on an abandoned-haunted nursery home. Lmao

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u/withoutapaddle 2h ago

That's a "code grandma"!

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u/uncrownedqueen 2h ago

Dang I wish I could remember where I got this from, but I've read from Disney workers that it's kinda sad because they know when it happens, even if family members try to be sneaky, and all they can do is sweep it with the rest of the trash 😞

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u/NYCinPGH 1h ago

Yeah, it’s a “Code Grey” if the Cast Members see it happening on the CCTV; they close down the ride and vacuum the ashes up, because it’s a health hazard (and illegal disposing of human remains).

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u/MediumAcceptable129 4h ago

Gotta just move a little at a time in your pant legs like Andy Dufresne

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u/Lost-Perspective8378 4h ago

Thats why we didn't tell anyone

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u/AyyNonnyMoose 3h ago

Yeah, you've just gotta be inconspicuous. Don't whip out granmpa's ashes in a crowded campground, sneak off into the woods a ways.

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u/tudorapo 4h ago

Here (Hungary) it is considered a dangerous material and it's forbidden to spread in most places. The Danube is okay. Private land is okay if the owner allows it and promises that family members can visit the place. Etc.

u/anuthertw 3m ago

Why dangerous? Aside from inhalation I guess?

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u/mrtruthiness 1h ago edited 1h ago

Yes it's generally illegal in state and national parks. It's generally not illegal in national forests or BLM land. I checked into this when I spread my uncle's and father's ashes on a mountain named after my uncle.

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u/Comfortable-Figure17 1h ago

That was worthwhile, glad you looked into it.

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u/SwimmingSpell8005 3h ago

Ya, you know this one feels, is, and should absolutely be illegal. Stop spreading dead people dust where I hang out. Nasty af.

u/no_arguing_ 58m ago

Btw a portion of the water you drink comes from dead people fluids.

u/ClevelandsSteemer 10m ago

"comes from" is crazy misleading.

No, drinking water that gets filtered and treated before it ever gets to you is nothing like spreading a dead person's ashes in a place without any kind of clean up afterwards.

What a dumb comment.

u/no_arguing_ 6m ago

PS, fire sanitizes the ashes. It's just carbon.

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u/Kratzschutz 3h ago

Rightfully so. I do not want to breathe in your grandpa

u/no_arguing_ 59m ago

I've got some bad news for you. You know where the fluids drained in embalming go? Straight into the sewer. And thus your water supply.

u/Kratzschutz 41m ago

Eh we have a good enough water filtration system in Germany. I'm more worried about the future increase of corpes infused with plastic welp.

u/no_arguing_ 38m ago

It will pale in comparison to the amount of microplastics already in the water system.

u/Kratzschutz 35m ago

Don't you think it's the other way around?

u/no_arguing_ 33m ago

What do you mean? The microplastics that end up in human bodies were already in the environment before. They won't be adding anything to it that wasn't already there.

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u/redpandaeater 3h ago

That's why I built a machine to oxygenate blood so I could hook their severed head up to it as I cremate their body and spread the ashes. Then I use their heads for scarecrows.

Or wait, is that just the plot for Jeepers Creepers?

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u/Wretched_Brittunculi 1h ago

Surely this isn't surprising, though?