What a gargantuan fuck up. Imagine coming home to find your home completely stripped bare.
Jesus Christ that’s awful.
You go on holiday and come back to not only find your flat emptied incorrectly but your father’s ashes are somewhere in a landfill
I would love to have heard the call when this company contacted their lawyer
“You did fucking what!?”
They just threw all of his stuff in the skip? Seriously?
At no point during the clear out did nobody think, “hmmm surely there’s no way somebody left all of this behind, let’s confirm that this is the place”?. Talk about incompetence.
Hopefully he takes them to the cleaners (no pun intended..).
I’m so cynical now I read the article expecting there to be more to this or that it had been blown out of proportion but no. Completely insane and I feel horrendously sorry for him.
They won’t have been a specific person’s remains. In most crematoria one is given a “share” of the days scrapings.
How can I know?
Friends who have worked in the business and the fact that my mother in laws “cremains” contained bits of teeth. She died in her 60s and had them all removed in her teens.
Did they not have a set of keys for the correct flat, or do they break in. It’s hard to understand how they could be so stupid.
There’s no way all of this guys belongings ended up in a skip. If the contractors were commissioned to “clear” his flat then I’m betting that a significant portion of those belongings are currently sitting in the contractors home’s right now, his dad’s watch included.
Maybe if these contractors could be personally charged with trespass and burglary and jailed/fined accordingly they’d take a bit more care to make sure they have the right flat before devastating someone’s world
> The family say Bernicia offered them a £5,000 interim payment on Monday, which they are considering.
This is one of those situations where the guy really needs to speak with a lawyer.
Like hell did they throw the watch and any jewellery in a skip, those contractors filled their pockets 100%. It’s a crime that when properties are cleared, the contents isn’t put in to storage. Hope he sues them in to bankruptcy and unemployment for the lot.
They had the nerve to ask for receipts before they’d replace anything!
As a random stab in the dark I’d imagine they were thrown out!
Particularly marvellous that they asked him for fucking RECEIPTS. What’s he meant to do if they were all tucked in his sock drawer?!! The guy has absolutely nothing!! FFS.
The headline of this initially made me think that an urn had been accidently removed, ala that episode of Only Fools and Horses.
Reading the article that is absurb, if it were my I’d rather be fucking burgled, at least they wouldn’t remove *everything*
Aside from the ashes and memories, imagine coming home and finding **everything** in your house gone. I just can’t wrap my head around it all!
Not wishing to make light of this horrible situation, but is it common to keep relative’s ashes?
I don’t think I have ever heard of it except in sitcoms, where something similar to this happens.
If life was fair, this guy would receive enough compensation to never have to work another day.
£5000 compensation? I’d take them for all I could, father’s ashes or not. This is gross incompetence and destroying someone’s life like this should come with a hefty price.
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What a gargantuan fuck up. Imagine coming home to find your home completely stripped bare.
Jesus Christ that’s awful.
You go on holiday and come back to not only find your flat emptied incorrectly but your father’s ashes are somewhere in a landfill
I would love to have heard the call when this company contacted their lawyer
“You did fucking what!?”
They just threw all of his stuff in the skip? Seriously?
At no point during the clear out did nobody think, “hmmm surely there’s no way somebody left all of this behind, let’s confirm that this is the place”?. Talk about incompetence.
Hopefully he takes them to the cleaners (no pun intended..).
I’m so cynical now I read the article expecting there to be more to this or that it had been blown out of proportion but no. Completely insane and I feel horrendously sorry for him.
They won’t have been a specific person’s remains. In most crematoria one is given a “share” of the days scrapings.
How can I know?
Friends who have worked in the business and the fact that my mother in laws “cremains” contained bits of teeth. She died in her 60s and had them all removed in her teens.
Did they not have a set of keys for the correct flat, or do they break in. It’s hard to understand how they could be so stupid.
There’s no way all of this guys belongings ended up in a skip. If the contractors were commissioned to “clear” his flat then I’m betting that a significant portion of those belongings are currently sitting in the contractors home’s right now, his dad’s watch included.
Maybe if these contractors could be personally charged with trespass and burglary and jailed/fined accordingly they’d take a bit more care to make sure they have the right flat before devastating someone’s world
> The family say Bernicia offered them a £5,000 interim payment on Monday, which they are considering.
This is one of those situations where the guy really needs to speak with a lawyer.
Like hell did they throw the watch and any jewellery in a skip, those contractors filled their pockets 100%. It’s a crime that when properties are cleared, the contents isn’t put in to storage. Hope he sues them in to bankruptcy and unemployment for the lot.
They had the nerve to ask for receipts before they’d replace anything!
As a random stab in the dark I’d imagine they were thrown out!
Particularly marvellous that they asked him for fucking RECEIPTS. What’s he meant to do if they were all tucked in his sock drawer?!! The guy has absolutely nothing!! FFS.
The headline of this initially made me think that an urn had been accidently removed, ala that episode of Only Fools and Horses.
Reading the article that is absurb, if it were my I’d rather be fucking burgled, at least they wouldn’t remove *everything*
Aside from the ashes and memories, imagine coming home and finding **everything** in your house gone. I just can’t wrap my head around it all!
Not wishing to make light of this horrible situation, but is it common to keep relative’s ashes?
I don’t think I have ever heard of it except in sitcoms, where something similar to this happens.
If life was fair, this guy would receive enough compensation to never have to work another day.
£5000 compensation? I’d take them for all I could, father’s ashes or not. This is gross incompetence and destroying someone’s life like this should come with a hefty price.