Sounds crazy doesn’t it? But it’s true!
TMZ is reporting that the sister of Tapout founder Charles “Mask” Lewis, who was killed by a drunk driver during a street race in 2009, is suing Tapout, along with founding members Dan “Punkass” Caldwell and Tim “SkySkrape” Katz, for illegally giving away his ashes during a memorial service for Lewis and then refusing to return the urn, as well as his remaining ashes.
Carla, the sister of Charles Lewis, had executive power over his remains and says she was approached by Skyscrape and Punkass to “borrow” his remains for the public memorial service. She claims that she agreed to lend him her brothers ashes if they agreed to return his remains right after the service.
Here’s where things get CRAZY — Carla says when she arrived to the memorial service, she noticed “various booths and tables” set up around the cathedral … one of which contained, “a large shoebox-size box containing several miniature vials that were on display.”
Carla says the vendor informed her, “each of the vials contained a small amount of the cremated remains of Mask, and were reserved for, and to be given to, ’special people’ whose names were on a printed list.”
Carla believes somewhere between 50 to 100 vials were either “sold, given away, donated or otherwise distributed to several unknown persons.”
Not only is Carla PISSED about the vials … she claims TapouT still has possession of the urn and the remainder of Mask’s ashes … and the company refuses to return them.
Carla is suing for unspecified damages — citing “overwhelming and severe emotional distress.”