Vague sympathy, until the point that he ruled out each and every one of the logical possible solutions. At that point, you're just being objectionable.

1 1/2 years in 'Nam?
The man deserves a little peace.

Doesn't want a used grave?

This guy is a little weird on his own.

Falls to his knees and sobs over an error that can be corrected. He needs more than a grave problem corrected,the one in his head is more serious.

This same thing happened at a cemetery in the town next to mine -- less than a 20 minute drive away.

An out of town relative's mother was buried there so when I read about it in the paper I contacted the Consumer Affair's number given out for questions about this place to make sure her burial spot was untouched. It was left alone but others had problems with burial spots. Mostly they were places they had paid for but had not used and someone else was buried in it.

Grandview even had a crematory that was operating so poorly the neighbors were complaining about the smoke and assorted odors drifting thru the neighborhood. This cemetery is located in a very pricey part of town up in the foothill area -- not some downtown L.A. storefront mortuary. But the new owner was a money grabbing sleezeball. The authorities closed the cemetery down for awhile and it has since reopened -- under new ownership.

Geeze, can you ever rest in peace?

Here's two linked articles about it. If it can happen here it can happen anywhere.

We had a similar thing happen here in S. Florida (of course).

This guy wants to be difficult. No two ways about it.

He's craving attention as is evidenced by his Cav hat he chose to wear for the photo op.

Fuck you Dave.

Seems like the cemetery folks tried to make this right. Not sure what his issue is with option #3 -- the "used grave" option. What about the squirrels and moles and probably dead Iroquois bones that he'll be sharing the spot with?

Sounds like the guy is too freaked out to make a rational decision and should probably take a break for a few weeks and then come back to option #3.

Or maybe he'll do the obvious and invoke option #5: Call a lawyer. Yup, i think that's where this is going...

We had a similar thing happen here in S. Florida (of course).

If this was FARK, we'd have the "Florida" tag on it.

This is what backyards are for.

Burial is a waste of space anyway.

Man: Someone Else is in my grave.....SOOOOO...... STFU and count your blessings.

I don't get it. When you're dead, you're dead. Why would he care? Unless he won't be truly dead, only undead.

I don't suppose his mom will say anything about it.

When I die, I hope people say, 'That guy owed me a lot of money.'

....just make sure the very last check you write is a very large one.....and that it bounces.

Isn't an used grave akin to using a used rubber. sure it will "cover" You but it's already been polluted by someone elses "remains" if You catch My drift.

Larry Mohr

Man: Somebody Else is in My Grave

This guy doesn't know how to look on the bright side of things.

It could have been him in his own grave.

What a dumbass. Mistakes happen unfortunately. The cemetery offered every reasonable option to correct it.

What solution does he want that they haven't offered?

My bet is money. Lots of comforting money.

Jerk.

This kind of stuff isn't all that uncommon. Though, I must admit it's much more common in older cemeteries.

I've worked on many cemetery relocations, and rarely (if ever), do the number of headstones truly represent the number of burials. And often, headstones aren't even over the actual burials. In addition, older burials (w/out gravestone) are often encountered while digging modern grave shafts. Though most won't admit to it, with this situation it's generally SOP for funeral homes to just dig a shallow shaft and place the modern burial on top of the older one.

At this point, nothing would surprise me...

In fact, the first large project I ran (many years ago), we were contracted to move a cemetery that involved excavating about 100 burials (dating between 1850 and 1980). Upon excavation, we also discovered the cemetery was on top of an even larger, prehistoric cemetery. Needless to say, it really complicated things :-)

Geeze, can you ever rest in peace?

Posted by CalifChris

I will when they scatter my ashes over the Little Bighorn Battlefield. It's a nice quiet place out in the middle of nowhere.

Someone here suggested this nut job as a Darwin Award Candidate. He will not have his day there however, he will be signed up for his own slot on the DR.

In this group our friend won't be noticed.

Oh, shit, did you read the last two or three sentences of the article? Anxiety and panic attacks and emergency room visits, Oh MY! I smell a nice lawsuit coming down the road for the bumbling funeral home.

It can't be too damn hard to cross check things like that, especially specific orders and plans, to make sure this doesn't happen. Well, I guess we all make mistakes.

Is this the same graveyard where the plane crashed last week? I thought they had discovered at least a hundred bodies so far from the wreck and were still digging for survivors.