Things Go Terribly Wrong When Woman Scatters Mother's Ashes

By Dave Basner

June 28, 2017

When Liz Hopson went on a Newcastle, England bridge to scatter her mother's ashes, things didn't go as planned. 

Just as she spread the ashes out, a gust of wind blew most of them back into her face and all over the bridge. As Liz wiped her mom's remains off herself, all her family could do was laugh. 

Thankfully, Liz took it in stride, writing it off as her mom's last laugh. Hopson was later able to scatter her mother's ashes in other locations more successfully. 

Of course, it's not the first time something like this has happened:

Video has some harsh language

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