Grave robbing suspected in unregulated UK trade in human bones

[JimW]

Story here: Desecrated human skulls are being sold on social media in UK's unregulated bone trade

Grave robbing is feeding a macabre market currently booming in the UK

Grave robbing appears to be a growing problem in the human remains trade.

www.livescience.com

As one of the people interviewed says, seems odd we ban the desecration of monuments but not human remains. Think I tend towards the ban this sick filth side here.

 

[maomao]

Bone them.

 

[killer b]

ah yes. A goth acquaintance has recently acquired a human skull off instagram, and I am totally not surprised to read this.

 

[danny la rouge]

A goth acquaintance

“Please help me advise him”.

 

[tonysingh]

Human bones would make awesome tank decorations for a tarantula.

 

[weepiper]

Lots of Scottish cemeteries have a watchtower like this from when Burke and Hare were digging people up to sell for medical dissections




Maybe we should be manning them again. Actually there's been some weird gravestone thefts going on around here recently too:

Another historic Edinburgh headstone has been stolen from city graveyard

A cash reward has been offered for the safe return of a 123-year-old Victorian gravestone after it was stolen from an Edinburgh cemetery.

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com

 

[hitmouse]

I blame the tiktokers.

 

[xenon]

"To some these are awesome, to others, they ask why. But why not? Why should we not use what's available to us when no one else is using it, why should we let worms, bugs and micro organisms feast on this perfectly good flesh when it can be used to create appreciated objects."

ER. no. Just no.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Human bones would make awesome tank decorations for a tarantula.

My brain tried to understand why a spider would need to have an armoured fighting vehicle. My brain is an idiot.

 

[JimW]

I blame the tiktokers.

Oops, should have posted this there really, missed it at the time.

 

[xenon]

Once and only thing I stole from a grave was a few decorative green glass chips, when on a school trip circa 11 YO. We thought they were worth something, maybe were emralds.

 

[DaveCinzano]

My brain tried to understand why a spider would need to have an armoured fighting vehicle. My brain is an idiot.

Actually I can see its point

 

[spellbinder]

I blame halloween
Tick or treaters get right on my tits - scrounging bastards

 

[Pickman's model]

Story here: Desecrated human skulls are being sold on social media in UK's unregulated bone trade

Grave robbing is feeding a macabre market currently booming in the UK

Grave robbing appears to be a growing problem in the human remains trade.

www.livescience.com

As one of the people interviewed says, seems odd we ban the desecration of monuments but not human remains. Think I tend towards the ban this sick filth side here.

i'm pretty sure it is already an offence to rob a grave.

 

[Spymaster]

Once and only thing I stole from a grave was a few decorative green glass chips, when on a school trip circa 11 YO. We thought they were worth something, maybe were emralds.

I nicked some of those frosty green stones too. I took them home and showed my mum who knew instantly what they were and promptly marched me to the churchyard by the ear to put them back. I also got a lecture about "robbing graves". When I got older and found out what actual grave robbing was and realised that's not what I'd done, I was pretty miffed!

 

[Pickman's model]

I nicked some of those frosty green stones too. I took them home and showed my mum who knew instantly what they were and promptly marched me to the churchyard by the ear to put them back.

she didn't find the skull and tibias you took for your pirate ossuary then

 

[SysOut]

King Charles II was a grave robber.

 

[T & P]

If my bones (and any other bits) were to pay for a care home in my late life, I'm all for selling them to the highest bidder. They can do whatever the fuck they want with them, for all I'd care.

 

[DotCommunist]

reminded me of this from a few years back:

Inside a business where human bodies were butchered, packaged and sold

For a decade, Arizona-based Biological Resource Center persuaded dying Americans to donate their bodies to science. Here’s what happened to thousands of donors

www.reuters.com

sample quote:
“Over the course of the internship, I stripped subcutaneous fat from the vertebrae of a cervical spine, practiced performing cricothyrotomies (incisions to the throat), sutured dismembered legs using an oversized needle and twine, and decapitated an elderly woman with what looked and sounded like a chainsaw from Home Depot,” Glynn wrote in her thesis. “Not once did I receive formal training or instruction.”

 

[DaveCinzano]

reminded me of this from a few years back:

Inside a business where human bodies were butchered, packaged and sold

For a decade, Arizona-based Biological Resource Center persuaded dying Americans to donate their bodies to science. Here’s what happened to thousands of donors

www.reuters.com

sample quote:
“Over the course of the internship, I stripped subcutaneous fat from the vertebrae of a cervical spine, practiced performing cricothyrotomies (incisions to the throat), sutured dismembered legs using an oversized needle and twine, and decapitated an elderly woman with what looked and sounded like a chainsaw from Home Depot,” Glynn wrote in her thesis. “Not once did I receive formal training or instruction.”

Well that's uplifting

 

[ouirdeaux]

'In hindsight, Kazemi said using a motorized saw was wrong because it cannot be cleaned well enough to avoid spreading diseases.'

Amongst corpses?

 

[tonysingh]

'In hindsight, Kazemi said using a motorized saw was wrong because it cannot be cleaned well enough to avoid spreading diseases.'

Amongst corpses?

Zombies innit

 

[spellbinder]

There, agents discovered 10 tons of frozen human remains – 1,755 total body parts that included 281 heads, 241 shoulders, 337 legs and 97 spines.

They would of made a fortune on facebook and ebay

 

[Pickman's model]

'In hindsight, Kazemi said using a motorized saw was wrong because it cannot be cleaned well enough to avoid spreading diseases.'

Amongst corpses?

Yeh cos living people will never inhale bone dust

 

[kebabking]

Yeh cos living people will never inhale bone dust

Fun police.

 

[story]

See also Boneghazi from 2015.


I think more recent stories are being dubbed Boneghazi 2

 

[stavros]

ah yes. A goth acquaintance has recently acquired a human skull off instagram, and I am totally not surprised to read this.

I bet you've given him a ribbing about that.

 

[Artaxerxes]

They do say millennials should embrace tradition

Some Bronze Age Britons turned the bones of dead relatives into musical instruments

Bronze Age people were keeping human body parts and preserving them.

www.nhm.ac.uk

 

[High Voltage]

The origins of the modern chainsaw are debated. The first chainsaw was designed by German orthopaedist Bernhard Heine in 1830. He called it the osteotome, from the Greek osteo (bone) and tome or tomi (cut); literally, the bonecutter. This chainsaw, as well as many that followed, were used for medical purposes.

 

[editor]

ah yes. A goth acquaintance has recently acquired a human skull off instagram, and I am totally not surprised to read this.

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