What is everyones stance on digging up graves?

[Banana]

Not recent graves or anything like that, because that's just fucked up.


But my buddies family has a ton of farm land out near Pittsburgh. On this land there is this really really old cemetery, if you even want to call it that. Just maybe 12 or so really old graves, with nature growing all over it. You really have to look for it to find it. It's easily full of graves from sometime in the 1800's. The next time we all go out there I really want to dig up a few graves and go through the caskets seeing what we can find. Maybe some really valuable old jewelry or other cool shit. Lay in the casket with a skeleton for a cool picture or something, I don't know.

I was talking to one of my friends about it tonight and he thinks it would be wrong. I don't really get that viewpoint since the graves are so old. Any relatives of these people are long gone.


So what do you guys think about digging up old graves and going through them?

[hnibos]

bored white people

[28if]

Originally Posted by Banana

Lay in the casket with a skeleton for a cool picture or something, I don't know.

if you don't post this picture you are a bitch

[sppunk]

You're trolling too hard now.

[duovamp]

Where near Pittsburgh?

[Banana]

Originally Posted by duovamp

Where near Pittsburgh?

It's about 45 minutes to an hour out from what I remember.


Out in the middle of god damn no where though. Really cool bit of land though, I haven't been out there in years. But when my buddy gets back from South Africa in a month I'm going to make sure of it that we all go out to his farm one weekend. And we are digging up at least one of those graves.

[duovamp]

Right, where?

[Trotskilicious]

all corpses should be cremated

[redbreegull]

I don't think there is anything morally wrong with this, you aren't hurting any living people. You should donate anything interesting you find though, it would be reprehensible if you are intending on grave robbing for profit.

[Banana]

Originally Posted by duovamp

Right, where?

I have no idea where. Mountain hilly type area. 45-60 minutes east of Pittsburgh, maybe north, maybe south, I don't really know.

[Banana]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

I don't think there is anything morally wrong with this, you aren't hurting any living people. You should donate anything interesting you find though, it would be reprehensible if you are intending on grave robbing for profit.

If I find anything of historic significance you gotta pretty much turn it over or keep it in one of our families secretly passing it down from generation to generation. But it would mostly be for profit as well as the rush of digging up a grave. I mean if we can find some shit in there that brings us a couple grand or better, then that is awesome.


I'm also not sure on the legality of it all even though it is on his property. So I don't think we can stroll around donating any interesting finds to some museums or anything of that sort.

[duovamp]

Originally Posted by Banana

I have no idea where. Mountain hilly type area. 45-60 minutes east of Pittsburgh, maybe north, maybe south, I don't really know.

I mean that's the entire western side of PA.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by Banana

But it would mostly be for profit as well as the rush of digging up a grave. I mean if we can find some shit in there that brings us a couple grand or better, then that is awesome.

so much anthropological knowledge has been lost forever because of this attitude

[JokeyLoki]

Originally Posted by hnibos

bored white people

[Catherine Wheel]

Every time I wonder whether or not he's trolling all I have to do is look at his goofy avatar and I become very certain.

[Cherry Cola]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

so much anthropological knowledge has been lost forever because of this attitude

Yeah, the looting in Egypt and Pompeii is especially sad.

[killtrocity]

Banana, I would totally go with you if I lived in PA

[Trotskilicious]

That's the spirit.

[Trotskilicious]

There should be a Wal-Mart on that land.

[Dead Frequency]

You're gonna get a gypsy curse, bro

[slunken]

Originally Posted by duovamp

I mean that's the entire western side of PA.

sounds like this is total bullshit - i mean even i can remember the name of a town where my buddy lives and i'm going to be visiting. all places have names.

[cocksure]

digging up graves to make way for something is a-ok in christianity, go for it

[cocksure]

i'm glad we have people like banana who determine "historic significance" for us

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by Banana

But when my buddy gets back from South Africa in a month I'm going to make sure of it that we all go out to his farm one weekend. And we are digging up at least one of those graves.

You're that close to Barden?

[wHATcOLOR]

unimpressive trolling

[barden]

I employ this stance when digging up graves:

[Eulogy]

45-60 minutes east, north, or south of pittsburgh

place clearly exists

[Banana]

Originally Posted by cocksure

digging up graves to make way for something is a-ok in christianity, go for it

My buddy doesn't live there, its just abunch of land his family owns that he goes out and hunts on.