To the thoughtless heathens who broke into the cemetery on South Park and South Street: Every Saturday a group of caring people volunteer their weekend to restore the historic headstones of the oldest Catholic cemetery in the city. They go for coffee afterwards and are genuinely nice people. Thanks to you, their hard work has been undone. I am bitching all the way from Alberta because I was sent a picture by a friend who was equally as disgusted. There are better ways to spend time and energy than destroying things that don’t belong to you. Get a life! —Appalled Former Haligonian
This article appears in Mar 24-30, 2011.
Oh yes OP. This is one of my guaranteed blood pressure raisers. Pisses me off no end. It makes me want to see restorative justice imposed except I wouldn’t let the little subhumans anywhere near the cemetary they violated. I’d put them to cleaning up graffiti; with a spray bottle of javex and their tongues.
That is so sad and infuriating. I’m really sorry to hear that.
Wasn’t there recently a car accident at this corner and the car(s) crashed into the cemetery?
Pity they can’t hook up the gates to a power line and fry those little fuckers.
Ok, has someone hacked sebastard’s account?
This is absolutely DISGUSTING. Grave stone tippers need to fry in hell. You don’t fuck with burial grounds…. I mean didn’t we learn anything from the Poltergeist series? *shakes head*
Whoknows: there was definitely a car accident early one morning less than 2 weeks ago where a car ended up crashing through the fence and flattened a number of headstones. Unless some vandals have since snuck in and destroyed more, then this bitch goes in the “needs more research” category.
um… the car crash was the one near the windsor street exchange wasn’t it?
I can still see the fence hasn’t been put up for two posts….
that one way in south end though, that happens every fucking year.
Some punks think it’s ok to destroy hundreds of dollars worth of marble for no reason.
It’s a shame they can’t afford to install some decent security cams or something… so at least they have something to go off of and aren’t just scratching their heads at the little vandals work.
little bastards… I smile on the inside every time I read that someone happened to be around and called popo’s to catch them in the act.
Nope – the accident was on the corner of south park and south. The car jumped the sidewalk, went through the gate and ended up in the middle of the graveyard.
Ohhh zed, I have a story for you I can’t share on LTWWB. Remind me to tell you about it sometime. If that makes you smile on the inside, this story certainly will too 🙂
Just because the people in the graves marked by these stones have been long departed doesn’t give anyone the right to disrespect them. We have graveyards for the particular purpose of honoring the dead and remembering the lives they lived. I’m sure that if those little fuckers had a recently deceased relative and somebody tipped their stone, they would be angry and upset. These people make me sick.
Gotta wonder what is in the heads of people who would desecrate a fucking grave marker.
I don’t believe in karma or Gawd, but some things deserve our respect.
If these little cocksuckers had a recently deceased relative they either refused to cooperate with the police investigation or they did it themselves for dope money. Beyond “Eat”, “Sleep”, “Shit”, “Fuck” and “Get High” their reptilian brains are unable to comprehend.
Hey OP, this may make you feel better, the knocked over headstones were caused by a car, not purposely.
there was however purposeful damage done by vandals to the fence on the other side (Queen and South), but no headstones. I go by this graveyard everyday, the only recently knocked done headstones were from the accident.
i remember one time, in the fairview cemetary, a bunch of little douches were laying on a grave, smoking weed. i snuck up real close, and grabbed one by the ass and said in the deepest voice i could, to get off my fucking grave.
well fuck, you should have seen them go, couldn’t get the fuck out of there fast enough. i had a marvelous laugh that night.
I remember walking through that cemetary with a friend one day when I was in high school. The instant my foot accidentally stepped down onto one of those flat tombstones, a crow swooped down from the sky and momentarily caught his foot in my hair. I’m not religious or superstitious….okay well maybe I’m a bit supersticious…but it really freaked me out! Who would desecrate a tombstone on purpose?! Even if I had no morals, I’d be too freaked out to mess with the dead!
it WAS a car at that graveyard?
wow, two car accidents in two separate graveyards in a matter of two months or so? wow…
and how do you crash into that graveyard? all the streets are running parallel at right angles…
you would have to deliberately turn right into it somehow or be extremely neglectful… ala crazy bitch on spring garden running into the building.
It looked like a beemer too. Shame. SOMEONE’S insurance rates are goin’ up!
Police tape’s still up and the old gravestones look like they’re all crumbled. It’s such a shame. 🙁
is it weird that i like graveyards? it’s peaceful except for my corbie friends and i like bats too
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Not weird at all; SOBova loves prowling old graveyards. Admittedly, I’d have rather not spent day 3 of the honeymoon watching her cry in the Donkin Cemetary, but after 45 minutes in Donkin I was about ready to howl like a 2 year old with a steaming nappy as well.
I used to love going to my grandmother’s grave site when I was little with my mom and sitting on the grass in front of her stone just thinking about her (she died 25 years ago when I was only 4, but she was my favorite person in the whole world and I still miss her so so much today, especially when I realize how much I’ve really missed out on — she was like a second mother, really, and was cherished in my family). She has a gorgeous stone — it’s pink.
This past summer my mom and i went to Cape Breton to our family’s community to get some pictures and have a little get away. My mom decided we’d take a walk up to the graveyard some of our family members were buried in. They were OLD stones dating back over a hundred years or more, and it was fascinating to see stones of my relatives that I never got to meet, and just talking with my mom about family members and our extended family. The grave yard had tall thick grass and we just sat there in the sun and talked about our family tree. I even learned my great grandmother had remarried after her husband died when they were quite young. I had no idea. I also found out all kinds of stories about my grandparents that I didn’t know — how they met, where they got married, etc…. It was a lot of fun 🙂
So no, it’s not weird you like graveyards 🙂 Especially if you’re into history like me. I didn’t major in history in my BA for nuthin’ 🙂
I like graveyards too – the older the better. I love the ones in Europe with the big mausoleums… Eerie and beautiful…
i think i was the only little kid that liked field trips to graveyards…gawd, no wonder i didn’t fit in
Fitting is highly overrated, PG. 😛
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FTW!
i figured that out early on 195. we moved so much it didn’t really matter. i always had a ragtag crew of outsiders “stay gold, ponyboy, stay gold”