Dumb Criminals: Man Arrested Digging Up Father's Grave To Argue With Corpse

[Initech]

STANFORD, Ky. (WKYT) - A Lincoln County man is in jail after deputies say he was caught trying to dig up a grave.

Michael May, 44, was arrested on Monday, after a Constable saw someone digging up a grave at Pilot Baptist Church in Stanford.

Deputies say the man had been digging up a grave of one of his family members.

May has been charged with violating graves, possession of marijuana and public intoxication.

http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Grave-digger-arrested-in-Lincoln-County-322230042.html

[PoliticAverse]

1. Some people will do anything to have the last word. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. It's a very papal thing to do:

Probably around January 897, Stephen (VI) VII ordered that the corpse of his predecessor Formosus be removed from its tomb and brought to the papal court for judgement. With the corpse propped up on a throne, a deacon was appointed to answer for the deceased pontiff.

Formosus was accused of transmigrating sees in violation of canon law, of perjury, and of serving as a bishop while actually a layman. Eventually, the corpse was found guilty. Liutprand and other sources say that, after having the corpse stripped of its papal vestments, Stephen then cut off the three fingers of the right hand that it had used in life for blessings, next formally invalidating all of Formosus's acts and ordinations (including, ironically, his ordination of Stephen [VI] VII as bishop of Anagni). The body was finally interred in a graveyard for foreigners, only to be dug up once again, tied to weights, and cast into the Tiber River.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod

[Mopar151]

3. Can you tell me again, which ones are the Satanists?

GoodLord, those folks are bent up..........

[47of74]

4. Yeah I heard about this one

Didn't wind up going all that well for Stephen who got his ass deposed for that stunt and wound up getting strangled in prison. Formosus was found and given a proper burial in the Vatican.