A man is honoring his plumber friend by putting his ashes into ballpark toilets across the country

What's the best way to honor a man who, when he was alive, was an avid baseball fan and plumber by trade? Naturally, you take his ashes into ballpark restrooms around the country and flush them down the toilet, right?
That's what Tom McDonald is doing in honor of his fallen childhood friend Roy Riegel. Riegel died nine years ago and so far, McDonald has deposited his ashes in 16 stadium bathrooms -- including ones in St. Louis, Kansas City, Toronto, Detroit and the pair's favorite: Flushing's Citi Field. He's also scattered them at the elementary schoolyard in Astoria where they once played baseball, Shea Stadium's original home plate location and on a marker in Lower Broadway where the Mets' 1969 ticker tape parade floated by. McDonald talked to The New York Times about his mission:
"I know people might think it's weird, and if it were anyone else's ashes, I'd agree," McDonald said. "But for Roy, this is the perfect tribute to a plumber and a baseball fan and just a brilliant, wild guy."
McDonald, who scoops some ashes into a small Advil container before each game, performed the deed at a White Sox contest, but skipped Wrigley Field because of the Cubs being an old Mets' rival. Friends and family approve of the ballpark ceremony, even Riegel's young brother, Hank.
"He'd be like, 'Oh yeah, do that," Hank Riegel said. "He would definitely approve of it. Never once did Roy follow the rules."
Read the rest of the fascinating, heartwarming Times story right here.