What do these items...a metal drum, a shopping cart and a Chevy pickup have in common?
They were the near-final resting places for 3 people who overdosed on drugs the last few weeks in Connecticut.
This summer drug use has spawned a different kind of drug problem in Connecticut. Disposing of the bodies of people who overdosed and died.

Really, you don't have to read on if you don't want to. Go ahead and click away. I understand.

Earlier this summer, a body was discovered in a metal drum...floating in Bridgeport harbor. Ooooh...could it have been a mob hit? No. Turned out 2 guys got high, one OD'd, and the other freaked. So he stuffed the body in the drum (after a slight dismemberment to make the body fit the drum), and sent it out to sea.
A couple of weeks later, a body turned up in a shopping cart in New Britain. Another OD checkout...the body unceremoniously dumped because his drug buddy freaked.
And on Monday, 2 people were in court to face manslaughter charges. Seems they, too, dumped the body of a fellow heroin pal. In the woods. But they apparently felt bad, went back, and put his body back in his pick-up for police to find in Thomaston.

It's the damndest thing. I've never seen a run of similar stories like these. Troubled people meeting a sad end, and being dumped like trash.

So how about some sort of amnesty act...something that would let people (once they emerge from their drug-induced haze) bring their late companion's remains to...where? A hospital? Maybe a funeral home. Somewhere with a shred of dignity.

This is what I'm thinking.
Maybe I need a good re-progamming. Or vacation.