Not sure whether I should comment or not. I thought the 'bare breast' protests in the US were silly, this is strange, just strange.
Steven
Q. How do you make God laugh?
A. You tell Her your plans.
2nd corollary to Murphy´s Law
Two men arrested over grave desecration
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UK: October 18, 2004
LONDON - Two men have been arrested in connection with the desecration of a grandmother's grave which police believe may be linked to animal rights protesters.
The grave of Gladys Hammond, who died seven years ago aged 82, was dug up and her remains taken away some time in the past few days at St Peter's church in Staffordshire.
She was related to a family who run a farm where guinea pigs are bred for sale to researchers.
Police said they had carried out an early morning raid on addresses in the West Midlands.
"Warrants were executed in Wolverhampton and Coventry at around 6:30 a.m, resulting in the arrest of a 41-year-old man in Coventry and a 34-year-old man in Wolverhampton," Staffordshire Police said in a statement last week.
"Officers are conducting searches and forensic tests at the addresses."
The operation involved officers from Staffordshire Police's environmental protests unit, as well as the force's major investigations department and West Midlands police.
Police said on Tuesday they were checking whether animal rights protesters were to blame for the desecration.
The Hall family at Darley Oaks farm have been the subject of one of the most sustained cases of abuse by animal rights protesters. Activists have threatened not only family members over the past five years but the entire village of Newchurch in which the farm is based.
REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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