I could not possibly make this up

So, here's a handy tip for you.

Tonight at private investigator class, I heard the following story about one of our instructor's clients: A guy's girlfriend dies, and is cremated. He can't locate any family, so he takes her ashes, because he figures somebody should. He puts them in a nice urn.

A month later, members of the girlfriend's family show up. Next thing he knows, the police charge the guy with misdemeanor theft of cremains.

So, the very important moral of the story is: Don't just accept any bag of human ashes that somebody might try to give you.