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by Ian Mosley

Two hundred years ago, gangs of ghouls called “Resurrection Men” crept through the foggy night in Britain and in America, stealthily unearthing the coffins of the newly buried dead and stealing their bodies for sale to medical schools and doctors who needed specimens for medical experimentation. Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” was written at about the time when this practice became prevalent. The Frankenstein story had its “Igor” doing this.

Now, the Resurrection Men are back. According to a St. Louis Today article “Grave robbing has become an above-ground affair. Gone are the days when enterprising thieves would dig up an old grave and pillage for gold teeth and rings. Today, it’s mostly the bronze markers and flower vases that draw their attention. Rising scrap metal prices, coupled with the lagging economy, have triggered a string of cemetery thefts both locally and across the nation.”

The ghouls also target brass and copper fittings on caskets and funeral laying-out clothing, which is usually the deceased man’s best suit, although these being lazy Generation X thieves, they get these things by breaking into funeral homes at night, and not by good old-fashioned digging by the light of the moon.

The article continues ” ‘I can’t think of anything lower,’ said David Evans, general manager for Valhalla Gardens of Memory in Belleville. ‘Nothing’s worse than stealing from the dead.’ …But grave robbers beware: The authorities are getting wise. States are passing laws and police are cracking down. In March, the Madison County Sheriff’s Department arrested three people for stealing 40 vases from two Metro East cemeteries. The owner of a Granite City scrap recycling center turned them in. Late last year, a trio of thieves hit the Valhalla Memorial Park cemetery in East Alton. They stole 17 bronze vases from graves in the cemetery. A month later, they went back and stole a dozen more. The two men and a woman were arrested after a tipster reported a suspicious vehicle. Charges are pending… The scrap value of a bronze vase is about $10, according to cemetery operators; the replacement price often tops $300. Three men were arrested earlier this month on charges of stealing more than 1,000 brass vases and headstones from nine Chicago-area cemeteries. Also this month, about 150 bronze vases were reportedly stolen from a West Virginia cemetery. In addition, a man was arrested on charges of stealing 55 vases from grave sites in the Fort Myers, Fla. area. In the last few weeks, robberies have been reported at cemeteries in Arizona, Maryland, Michigan and North Carolina.”

As the American economy begins what may well be its final slide into the Second Great Depression, we’re going to see an increase in bizarre crimes of desperation like this. Stealing these bronze vases and copper fittings brings in such a relatively low profit compared to drug dealing or knocking over liquor stores that it’s entirely possible these thieves are simply trying to raise enough money to put gasoline in their tanks or some food on the table.

Expect a continued increase in people willing to do anything just to get a few dollars. We’re rapidly heading for what always comes from a multi-racial empire: the final collapse into complete chaos.