[wallinbl]

The local news just reported a story about the body of a 6 year old that's been buried for 31 years being removed from its crypt. Currently, they have no explanation for who took it or why they did it. I can't come up with anything humorous or practical to explain it. I know kids pull pranks and whatnot, but this is just plain sick and wrong.

[milhous]

most awful. in this day and age, people seem to get their kicks from just about anything.

[rickey939]

Let's hope this doesn't end up on eBay.

[Cody Dawg]

I read about it also.

I heard that they're digging up the graves looking for jewelry, actually.

Someone who gets caught doing that should go to straight to jail, do not pass Go, no Get Out Of Jail Free card...they can rot in prison for the rest of their life as far as I'm concerned.

What sick bastards.

[wallinbl]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

I read about it also.

I heard that they're digging up the graves looking for jewelry, actually.

Should have checked the dates on the crypt first - it was a six year old!

[deomacius]

What do people expect? We've become a society that holds little to nothing sacred. It's all relative, right?

[Ghoser777]

Robbing graves is a pretty old profession - this isn't a "new" societal ill. If I was going to do something nefarious, that would be the last on my list. The whole concept is creepy.

[JoshuaZ]

Maybe they wanted to show the kid a fun time.

[Electric Zombie]

Return of the Living Dead started with a 6-year-old.

[Rumor]

Perhaps it was the Re-Animator™?

[vexborg]

Originally Posted by wallinbl

The local news just reported a story about the body of a 6 year old that's been buried for 31 years being removed from its crypt. Currently, they have no explanation for who took it or why they did it. I can't come up with anything humorous or practical to explain it. I know kids pull pranks and whatnot, but this is just plain sick and wrong.

Just leave the dead alone, they are not bothering anybody anymore (except if they are zombies looking for brrraaaaiiiinnnnnssss!).

[Cody Dawg]

Actually, in South Florida, you might not be that far off...

A lot of the Haitians have weird rituals with dead people and goats and crap like that. They're creepy people, I tell you - seriously. I've been through a couple of Haitian neighborhoods and the people in them give me the creeps. They always seem to have red eyes - seriously the whites of their eyes are bloody. Ewwww...

Anyway, there has been more than one story about Haitians who were caught with dried or mummified body parts and I remember that one woman coming in from Haiti had a human mummified skull with her.



So, my guess is if that little girl's grave was the only grave in that cemetery that was disturbed then it probably was a Haitian doing it because they wanted some body part.

I guess the moral of the story is...be cremated or make sure that the coffin has a lock on it and a good one at that.

[Doofy]

When I was in my mid teens, the "gang" (just a group, not an actual gang) I used to hang with favoured hanging out on the local primary school playground (just somewhere to go). It was next to the local graveyard. Anyways, this late-teens guy starting hanging out with us. Bit of a glue/mushroom freak and actually lived in a tent on the common but seemed OK apart from that.

One night, we're hanging at the school and we see him walking out of the fog from the graveyard. He's off his face on something or other and muttering "I love the way their faces are so white". We thought "what the f is this weirdo on about?" and got back to our beers/fags/conversations about Angus Young.

A couple of months later this guy stopped hanging out with us. We thought nothing of it because it was quite regular for someone to go hang out elsewhere when they got bored.
A couple of months after that we found out why he'd stopped hanging out with us... ...he was in chokey on a two-year stretch... ...for grave robbing.

[moonmonkey]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

So, my guess is if that little girl's grave was the only grave in that cemetery that was disturbed then it probably was a Haitian doing it because they wanted some body part.

I think its just as likely it was white people.

[Cody Dawg]

Maybe.

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by Electric Zombie

Return of the Living Dead started with a 6-year-old.

sig violation?

[CMYKid]

yeah, methinks graverobbing is kind of a lost art nowadays, but that guys not as bad as the guy in this link who hacksawed off a head so he could boil it out and make a bong out of it: http://www.caledonianrecord.com/page...tory/288fc020c


Its those damn goths.


And emo is the new goth.

[Psychedeliante]

Originally Posted by CMYKid

yeah, methinks graverobbing is kind of a lost art nowadays, but that guys not as bad as the guy in this link who hacksawed off a head so he could boil it out and make a bong out of it: http://www.caledonianrecord.com/page...tory/288fc020c

Holy ****.

That's just freakin weird dude.

[CMYKid]

mm, yeah. and last i checked a skulls got a few too many holes and such to make a very good bong.

[johnnyros3]

I saw a link on Fark the other day where someone broke into a tomb and decapidated a body to make the skull into a bong...

What is wrong with people?

[CMYKid]

Originally Posted by johnnyros3

I saw a link on Fark the other day where someone broke into a tomb and decapidated a body to make the skull into a bong...

What is wrong with people?

Hmm, I dunno, they probably don't read or something.

[Cody Dawg]

Shouldn't this be a Halloween thread or something?

Freaking me out.



(((SHIVER)))

I'm going to be cremated or something.

[Rumor]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Shouldn't this be a Halloween thread or something?

Freaking me out.



(((SHIVER)))

I'm going to be cremated or something.

Then people could steal you ashes for thier potting soil.

[porieux]

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[Monique]

The people that did it know that they will get lots of publicity out of it or they were high or drunk. In any cases it is disgusting just like putting graffiti on headstones or destroying graves. Some people should get a life.

[Landos Mustache]

Honestly, it is better than talking them when they are still alive.

[Powerbook]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Actually, in South Florida, you might not be that far off...

A lot of the Haitians have weird rituals with dead people and goats and crap like that. They're creepy people, I tell you - blalbllalblalallbllablalblaaa

"The very proper gander" is a satire about human behaviour

The fable "The very proper gander" by James Thurber is about a simple misunderstanding which leads to someone´s expulsion from his home. It is about animals that live on a farm and especially about a gander who is described by James Thurber as a strong, smooth and beautiful animal that spent most of his time singing to his wife and children. The action begins with a misunderstanding about a statement in which somebody described the gander as "a very proper gander". An old hen that overheard this, misunderstood it and heard "propaganda". She gossiped and after a short time every animal on the farm suddenly "remembered" to recall something suspicious about the gander. Soon they misinterpreted everything that they had ever heard the gander saying or doing. Probably the other barnyard animals were jealous of his coming across as very self-confident. The fable comes to the very unhappy end that the furious animals drive the gander and his family out of the country.

The moral of the story is: "Anybody who you or your wife thinks is going to overthrow the government by violence must be driven out of the country." I think with using this ironic exaggeration the author wants to criticize the arrogance of some people who think that their own opinion is the only right one.
I like the fable because I think the author has formulated a very true impression about the human character which he transferred in his story to animal characters. After my first reading of this story I immediately thought of George Orwell`s "Animal Farm". However I am not sure if that was a fable,too. But these two stories have a lot of things in common. Both are situated on a farm and both authors give the readers a very satirical picture of the human character and behaviour. Comparing the fable "The very proper gander" with James Thurber`s other fable "The unicorn in the garden", I assume that James Thurber likes to analyze the human behaviour, but I cannot find more things in common. I think "The very proper gander" is the better one of the two because I found it more understandable.
(P.K., 11d, Feb 2005)


Rumours can ruin your life

James Thurber narrates in his fable "The very proper gander" how a misunderstanding can ruin your whole life. The main character of the story is a strong, smooth and beautiful gander, who likes himself very much. The other animals in the barnyard are good friends but mostly he cares just about his family and himself. One day an old hen overheard something and misunderstood that the gander wanted to make propaganda. Immediately she told her husband and he spread this rumour. Out of a sudden other animals recalled that they had seen the gander talking to hawks- the dangerous birds- throwing bombs and heard him say he hated the flag. So they attacked the gander’s house and drove him out of the country.
What happens in this story can happen in our real life, too. Maybe not so dramatically by being driven out of the country, but with rumours and talking behind your back your life can become very difficult. We all know the kind of people who stand behind closed courtains and observe their neighbours through a gap, just to tell a story about them in the supermarket on the next day.
I like the fable more than Thurber´s fable "The unicorn in the garden". Although the characters in "The very proper gander" are all animals, it seems more realistic to me. You can identify yourself better with this story than with a story in which a man sees a unicorn in his garden.
(J.A., 11d, Feb 2005)


The fable reflects problems of today

The fable "The very proper gander" by James Thurber deals with a gander about whom rumour is spread about and who is driven out of the country. The gander is married and has two children. He is a good father who looks after his family and most of his time he spends singing to them, so he treats them very well. He is a strong, fine and beautiful gander, who has got a lot of self-confidence. The gander is a quiet member of the barnyard, who has never done anybody any harm. He has always been nice and friendly towards the other members. One day somebody mentioned that he was "a very proper gander" while he was strutting up and down in his yard.
The rumour starts when an old hen hears what somebody is saying that the gander said something about "propaganda". The other barnyard animals like to hear new stories, even if they are not true, and tell them to everybody else to get some attention. So the old hen tells the story to her husband. Now the chain begins. The rooster, the husband of the old hen, passes the news on the next day. Suddenly everybody remembers hearing bad words from the gander or they remember seeing him with the hawks, the enemies of the barnyard. In the end the animals unite and drive the gander out of the country.

Of course, the animals stand for persons and the barnyard for the human society. The gander symbolises all the quiet persons who try to get along with the others as well as possible. But only one misunderstood word is enough to make the others regard somebody else negatively. Perhaps the gander is an outsider who does not take part in a social life and now the other animals blame him. The others spread rumours about the gander that are not correct. They just say these things because the others think the same. One person begins, the others go along. In the barnyard society group pressure begins to rule, so they do not need any proof, they just listen to bad things about the gander and follow that example. I think they are jealous of him, because his family relationship is working and he is good-looking. The family of the gander has no problems, and the other barnyard members do not want to see him so happy, especially if they are not happy, too.

In my opinion the fable about the very fine gander clearly reflects the problems of the present society. I take pleasure in stories like this fable which are comparable with situations in the present time. (A.M., 11d, Feb 2005)
http://www.gs.cidsnet.de/englisch-on...per_gander.htm

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by porieux

Burying dead humans in the ground is pretty crude and barbaric in the first place..

Care to elaborate?

[Cthulhu]

Originally Posted by Gossamer

Care to elaborate?

They last longer if you wrap them in tinfoil. I hate dry meat.

[CMYKid]

Originally Posted by Cthulhu

They last longer if you wrap them in tinfoil. I hate dry meat.

this works well with coeds buried in the basement also.

[Gossamer]

This thread is getting really creepy.

[kmkkid]

Tinfoil? Don't they have human sized ziplocks now?

[dcmacdaddy]

Originally Posted by kmkkid

Tinfoil? Don't they have human sized ziplocks now?

Yeah, but they're a b*tch to get all the air out of. And if you don't get all the air out of the bag you get mushy human as opposed to nice, crisp dehydrated human. And let me tell you, there is a BIG difference in taste between the two. mushy human = blech , dried human = tas-tee

[kmkkid]

Good to know, guess I've been doing it wrong all these years...

[smacintush]

Um, they're just bones and nothing more.

Personally when I'm dead I don't give a sh*t who does what to my carcass.

[nredman]

i want to be mummified when i die and planted somewhere in the middle of nowhere so someone can dig me up in 10,000 years and act like i was someone really important

[Ghoser777]

Just get it vacuum sealed.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html...p;node=1090768

[brassplayersrock²]

Originally Posted by nredman

i want to be mummified when i die and planted somewhere in the middle of nowhere so someone can dig me up in 10,000 years and act like i was someone really important

ive heard that is really really expensive. people do actually pay to be mummified now a days

[porieux]

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[nonhuman]

Originally Posted by porieux

What is there to elaborate about? It's flat out bizarre.
There is no need to do anything with a dead body but (potentially) harvest it and burn it.

Well, you could eat it...

[porieux]

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[smacintush]

Originally Posted by porieux

What is there to elaborate about? It's flat out bizarre.
There is no need to do anything with a dead body but (potentially) harvest it and burn it.

"Humans are the only creatures that horde their dead." - Miguel de Unamuno

It is silly really. We gather our dead bodies in specified places and carve elaborate head stones to mark the site. Then we go and visit the hole where the rotting corpse is stored…as if it mattered one little bit. Some go as far as to talk to the thing. Bizarre indeed.

Tombs and mausoleums are even weirder.

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by porieux

What is there to elaborate about? It's flat out bizarre.
There is no need to do anything with a dead body but (potentially) harvest it and burn it.

But some people in this culture like the closure they get from burying the dead. It's a tradition with emotional connections. Your solution, while practical, is cold and heartless.

[porieux]

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[wallinbl]

Originally Posted by porieux

Cold and heartless? That's ridiculous. You only feel that way because you are conditioned to.

Same reason you probably think it's sick to eat the meat of dogs, cats or humans. But really, what's the difference between those and a cow or a chicken?

[mike one]

Originally Posted by wallinbl

Same reason you probably think it's sick to eat the meat of dogs, cats or humans. But really, what's the difference between those and a cow or a chicken?

that's why some of us don't eat <i>any</i> animals.

burying the dead is pretty weird though, if you step back for a second....

[kaze0]

garbage

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by porieux

Cold and heartless? That's ridiculous. You only feel that way because you are conditioned to.

Of course I do. And that's why it's NOT ridiculous. I specified that it's an emotional connection.

[Velocity211]