Gravestone of Hillary Clinton's dad toppled in Pennsylvania

[IDemo]

Source: philly.com

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - The gravestone of Hillary Rodham Clinton's father has been found toppled over at a Pennsylvania cemetery.

Police say vandals may be responsible for upending the gravestone of Hugh Rodham in the Washburn Street Cemetery in Scranton.

Police Chief Carl Graziano tells The Times-Tribune (http://bit.ly/1Oc7yGg ) someone at the cemetery reported the stone was tipped over Tuesday, two days after Clinton announced she's running for president.

The chief says it's unknown how it tipped over but it may have been vandals. He says he's "not sure how else it would have fallen over."



Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/2015041

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What a sick, sad society this has become.

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. There are some spiteful, vindictive assholes in this world.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

31. I have to believe these were teenagers. No adult would do that.

[DonCoquixote]

2. how much you want to bet

that people on freeperland or discussionist are high fiving each other?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. Between rounds of how persecuted they are because they're "Good Christians ®".

[SwankyXomb]

27. Sucker bet.

[Kingofalldems]

3. A freeper/caver.

[jwirr]

4. Someone may be dropping very low?

[Archae]

5. Every year, kids do that in cemetaries not far from me.

It's like a "pastime" in some groups of kids, the "Beavis And Butthead" types.

"You knocked over that tombstone, huh huh, uh huh huh huh..."

"Yeah! Yeah! Huh huh uh huh huh..."

[840high]

8. Kids do it in my town, too.

[riversedge]

6. Horrible thing to do!!

[In_The_Wind]

7. That's just plain wrong.

[KMOD]

9. disgraceful.

Some people just disgust me.

[virgogal]

10. This type of nonsense has been going on for years. Idiots.

[A Little Weird]

11. Wow

I'm not a big fan of HRC, but this is just petty and pathetic.

[jtuck004]

12. 50 Million Native American spirits are thinking "This is new?" n/t

[Downtown Hound]

13. Stay classy Republicans. n/t

[Laurian]

14. Mean and hateful, but not surprising.

Some of the comments on her twitter feed are disgusting. I find it distressing that some people can be so despicable when cloaked in anonymity.

[LovingA2andMI]

17. Really???

We can see that this Hillaryisms is taking the extreme LOW road these days and times.

[emulatorloo]

19. That's way out of line.

[LovingA2andMI]

16. Don't care for Hillary....but

This is unnecessary and frankly extremely disrespectful to her Father's memory. Hope whomever did this is caught and jailed.

[yeoman6987]

18. I hope she isn't told. That is awful

Fix it and add security.

[barbtries]

20. yep.

What a sick, sad society this has become

[Darb]

21. All right, fess up, which one of you did it?

[NCarolinawoman]

22. Nothing is off limits. Hateful world we live in.

[NBachers]

23. The Obama family has remained safe, so far. See Hillary surrounded by safety and protection.

Please

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. You just KNOW the ones behind this are gonna brag about it.

[Scootaloo]

26. How puerile can people get?

[Aerows]

28. Our country has some harsh times ahead of it

unless we start becoming a kinder, gentler, more WELL-FUNDED nation on the side of the people instead of on the "Overseers" - Defense, Prison and Military.

It is time to sink our hard earned taxes into rebuilding OUR nation. The noise machine would have you believe that the richest economy on earth cannot take care of its citizens, its seniors and its obligations in pensions.

And it cannot.

Not as long as GE, EXXON, Wal-Mart and every other corporation is sucking up the benefits of our infrastructure, our natural resources (looking at you, Nestle, stealing CA water for 25 years!?), while not paying a dime for it.

Raise the Social Security Cap.

Rebuild our infrastructure, failing bridges, water-mains and the like. The corporations are the biggest benefactors of them - how does Jeff Bezos ship things to your house? On a damn ROAD.

Tax the fuck out of them for a change and stop draining the hell out of the middle class. Infrastructure projects will do two things - keep us from becoming Somalia in 10 years, and OMG - give people jobs.

OMG - more people with jobs, means more money to be spent, but OMG, that means companies will have to start spending some more damn money to retain workers. Every area where there are plentiful jobs with higher wages has some little pissant industry that is trying to pay the same thing they paid last week, and are hanging on, but are going to lose business because of it.

It is NOT a healthy nation where we cut everything to the bare bones, then some idiot pontificates how we should cut more. The majority of businesses are feeling the pressure because the vast majority have no money to spend. Why? Because these huge conglomerates pay no taxes. You use our roads, drink our water, use our facilities, it is time you FUCKING PAY FOR THEM. They are not FREE, and neither are we as long as they rob us of the rightful due our citizens are due!

[mylye2222]

29. Completly disgusting, hurtfull and unrespectfull.

[RobinA]

30. This Seems To Be

a thing in rural PA. We have a family graveyard for the first and second generation up in the hills near where they settled and it was vandalized some years ago with ruined old headstones and swastika graffiti sprayed about. Kinda weird that, even for morans. All the original settlers in that area had old testament German names because they were, wait for it...German. The area was settled in early 1700. Not sure what the grave desecration thing is. The people are...dead. I guess it's better than blowing up stuff they don't like.

[marshall]

32. It is a very large stone

Pictured here: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=4224&PIpi=80769

Someone went to some effot to get it toppled over.

[hamsterjill]

33. I hope there is some way to catch whoever it was that did this.

I'm sure there isn't, but it would be nice if the idiots got their due. Desecration isn't funny.

[Kire]

34. The link has gone bad.

Here's another one from Scranton.

http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/gravestone-of-hillary-clinton-s-father-toppled-in-scranton-cemetery-1.1863651