Woman's body fat causes crematorium to burn down

The dead fat woman had so much body fat she set the building on fire during her cremation.

As you can see in the photos, firefighters battled the blaze in special breathing kit, but got covered in burnt grease.

Firefighters had trouble extinguishing the blaze due to a thick layer of insulation lining the crematorium's walls.

Austrian officials investigating the fire found that it was caused by the burning body of the 440-pound woman. The obese corpse reportedly led to overheating in the crematorium's filter system, starting the fire.

Recently, fires caused by the burning obese bodies were reported in Germany and Switzerland.

Former Graz city fire chief said special crematoria for obese people should be set up in Austria to deal with the potential dangers of cremating obese bodies.

In Switzerland, there is now a special crematorium for XXL-bodies.

Making jewelry out of dead relatives

Don't ask us why we decided to post this story on a food blog.
Actually we don't understand either, but we couldn't resist a story about making jewelry out of dead relatives.

These ashes-to-beads companies are everywhere in South Korea, and for one company, business has been gangbusters.
Bonhyang, owned by Bae Jae-yul, (above photo) melts the ashes of the dead down using a special process he perfected before starting his company.
The difference between his and other companies is the lack of minerals added to help bind the ashes together.


The beads can be produced in frequent colors, with some of the more popular ones being blue-green, pink, purple, and black. The process costs around $900.
Bonhyang founder and CEO Bae Jae-yul says the beads allow people to keep their relatives close to them, wherever they go.

He also says stored ashes can rot, a claim denied by crematoriums. "Our beads are clean; they don't become moldy and don't go off and smell bad," he says.

Bae uses ultrahigh temperature to melt cremated ashes until they are crystalized and can be turned into beads in a 90-minute process.

We were thinking, this might be perfect for Halloween.

Ashes to Ashes

Matrix Andaluz, Jose David Diaz Marrero, Waldo Soroa

This isn't a food story, but it's one we want to tell anyway.

Our main characters are: Waldo Soroa, 19; Matrix Andaluz, 18; Jose Marrero, 19.

They broke into a house in Florida.

Then there it was, white powder in two urns.

They knew they had hit the jackpot, it was the mother-loads of coke or perhaps heroin and started snorting it.

As luck would have it, they were actually snorting, a man and two dogs.

Yes, that's right, the drugs turned out to be the cremated remains of homeowner Holli Tencza's dad and her two Great Danes.

They snorted them and tasted them, then someone said, "I don't really think that's what these are.'"

Then these idiots thought it was cement mix, but eventually realizing their mistake, they took the urns with them because they were worried that their fingerprints would be found on the urns, so they dumped the evidence in a nearby lake.

The teens in Florida  told police that they initially had "some kind of internal conflict" and considered returning the remains. But they decided it was too risky and threw the dogs' ashes in a nearby lake. One of the defendants later directed investigators to the location where the remains had been thrown in.

The dive team was in the water for about an hour and found both of the boxes.

What a nice story!