PaleCelery
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I just stumbled on this and figured I'd share, even though its old news. (2006) This is almost too good to be true. I'll just copy past you the news story, since I doubt I could do it justice. The only thing I wonder is, how did it rip?
ST. JOHNSBURY,
VT---A Vermont teenager has been sentenced to serve between one and
seven years in prison for breaking into a tomb and cutting off the head
of a corpse in order to make the skull into a bong for smoking
marijuana.
Nickolas Buckalew, 18, of Morrisville, pleaded
guilty to intentionally removing or injuring a tombstone and
intentionally disinterring and carrying away the remains of a human
body, both felonies.
He has been given credit for the 14 months he served while awaiting
trial and has been sent to a residential treatment facility for
facilities with acknowledged mental health issues.
Buckalew broke into a tomb last April, opened a casket and cut the head
from a corpse in addition to stealing eyeglasses and a bow tie from the
dead man. He reportedly wrapped the head in plastic bags and removed it
to his home. He allegedly told his friends that he had done it because
he was bored. The friends then went to the cemetery to check out his
story and found that the body in the described casket was indeed
headless.
Police found the head wrapped in bags along with other materials
including part of the damaged casket when they executed a search
warrant at Buckalew's home. 6-29-06
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/062906CorpsesHead.html
ST. JOHNSBURY,
VT---A Vermont teenager has been sentenced to serve between one and
seven years in prison for breaking into a tomb and cutting off the head
of a corpse in order to make the skull into a bong for smoking
marijuana.
Nickolas Buckalew, 18, of Morrisville, pleaded
guilty to intentionally removing or injuring a tombstone and
intentionally disinterring and carrying away the remains of a human
body, both felonies.
He has been given credit for the 14 months he served while awaiting
trial and has been sent to a residential treatment facility for
facilities with acknowledged mental health issues.
Buckalew broke into a tomb last April, opened a casket and cut the head
from a corpse in addition to stealing eyeglasses and a bow tie from the
dead man. He reportedly wrapped the head in plastic bags and removed it
to his home. He allegedly told his friends that he had done it because
he was bored. The friends then went to the cemetery to check out his
story and found that the body in the described casket was indeed
headless.
Police found the head wrapped in bags along with other materials
including part of the damaged casket when they executed a search
warrant at Buckalew's home. 6-29-06
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/062906CorpsesHead.html
