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re: My Grandfather wants me to spread his ashes at Tiger Stadium
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:04 am to lowhound
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:04 am to lowhound
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When LSU added onto Tiger Stadium, where the football team has played since 1924, the contractor faced a steady stream of fans carrying urns, said senior associate athletic director Herb Vincent.
In addition, LSU gets several requests a year to spread ashes at Tiger Stadium, all of which the school turns down.
"We feel it might be a little bit of a health issue," Vincent said. "After all, we are talking about human remains."
Rules for the disposal of ashes vary from state to state, although Louisiana has no restrictions on how or where they may be dumped, according to Bob Johannessen, spokesman for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.
Looks like you won't officially be able to do it, but you would have to sneak it like most people suggest. Fill Paw Paw up in a balloon and heave it at opposing players like it was a piss balloon.
This post was edited on 10/30/23 at 11:06 am
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Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:04 am to AUTimbo
have a private airplane fly over stadium and drop ashes from sky. i think that may be legal.
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:05 am to secfballfan
Wait until the zombie apocalypse so the ashes can be used by those of us in the know when we take over the Tiger Stadium and use the field to grow food.
After raiding the local walmarts of course.
After raiding the local walmarts of course.
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:06 am to lowhound
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carrying urns
again, the trick is to just leave a little, you don't need to dump the entire urn at one site, share the wealth
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:06 am to lowhound
Honestly the best time to secretly spread the ashes would be when you kneel for the Black Lives Matter song that they replaced the national anthem with
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:08 am to Shadowlink
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Don't they shop vac the ashes up? The ashes would kill the grass.
This not to mention they can't take your word that it's just ashes and it doesn't include something else that may grow.
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:10 am to secfballfan
Just ask, why would they care.
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:11 am to Techdog89
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you will have a hole in your pocket and the bag of ashes, which will conveniently fall as you walk the line.
Someone has watched "Shawshank" a few times
The Great Escape
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:11 am to Shadowlink
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The ashes would kill the grass.
They resod the field every year anyways
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:11 am to secfballfan
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Long story short, 85 year old Grandfather (no pics) is doing fine but when he dies wants me to promise to spread his ashes at mid field. He is being cremated and has not told anyone else. Thoughts?
Honor his wishes if you can get access. Talk to the grounds crew...they will probably grant you access unless human ashes are bad for the grass or something. Bring some pictures of him and you at LSU games if you have any...you may be able to only scatter a portion of them...there is shocking amount of ashes in a human body. If you do get access don't make a big thing out of it by having 300 people present. Just you and him and probably a nervous ground crew member.
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:13 am to secfballfan
Use a drone.
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:14 am to gumbeaux
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I’m not sure if it is legal to spread ashes just anywhere.
Just looked it up and here is what I found:
It isn’t legal to scatter your loved one’s cremains in a sports stadium. Many stadiums don’t have an official policy on found cremation ashes. In all likelihood, they will end up in the garbage. And you will get a monetary fine and community service.
Once properly scattered ain't nobody picking them back up, especially out of grass on a football field. A fine and community service would be a helluva story and cheaper than a funeral....Imagine public reaction to the story, University would probably apologize, especially if you have pictures of him being a LSU fan...
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:15 am to liquid rabbit
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Take the stadium tour. When you get to the field, tell the guide it's always been a dream of yours to stand at midfield. Of course, you will have a hole in your pocket and the bag of ashes, which will conveniently fall as you walk the line
Or just make the trousers with the quick release bag in the great escape:
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:15 am to 777Tiger
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my wife has spread ashes of her parents over quite a few cool parts of the world, you don't have to dump the entire bag out at once, that said it would have been much easier to do a few years ago before they tightened up security, use your imagination
We have spread my MILs all over the world as well. Saved about a 1/4 cup for a trip to Tahiti if we ever make it....
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:16 am to tgrbaitn08
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The ashes would kill the grass.
They resod the field every year anyways
human bone is comprised of some of the same ingredients as lawn fertilizer
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:17 am to AwgustaDawg
Denver Post article from 2008
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When LSU added onto Tiger Stadium, where the football team has played since 1924, the contractor faced a steady stream of fans carrying urns, Senior Associate Athletic Director Herb Vincent said. “It was a very regular thing,” Vincent said. “The contractor would call and say, ‘We’ve got another one,’ and it would be someone with an urn of ashes they wanted to put into the stadium before the walls were sealed up. We had at least 40 people ask.” In addition, LSU gets several requests a year to spread ashes at Tiger Stadium, all of which they turn down. “We feel it might be a little bit of a health issue,” Vincent said. “After all, we are talking about human remains.”
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:17 am to secfballfan
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Thoughts?
He should have died 20+ years ago when you could walk in there like you owned the place in the offseason and there weren't cameras everywhere.
Today? Yeah, I'd start talking to him about an alternative spot.
And I say this as guy that took ENORMOUS amounts of shite form people because I followed through with my Dad's wishes as to where he wanted his ashes scattered...which to most people seemed a stupid place, but to me made perfect sense, as it was a place where we used to go fishing together.
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:17 am to el Gaucho
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I feel like you made this up. No way grown adults care about football this much
Really? A Alabama man killed a tree older than any living human being because Auburn beat the Tide. It is not outside the realm of probability that most SEC fields have ashes of loved ones mixed in the turf at mid field....
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:18 am to Grad92
quote:I’m thinking the grandfather shouldn’t put this on his grandkid.
youre a bad grandson if you dont follow through
This “spreading ashes here and there” is one of the dumbest things ever, anyway. Worry about your soul, not your remains.
Posted on 10/30/23 at 11:18 am to 777Tiger
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again, the trick is to just leave a little, you don't need to dump the entire urn at one site,
Yup. That's what we did. We took a tour of Tiger Stadium (been there a thousand times) just so my aunt can put some of his ashes on the field.
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