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To: BenLurkin

Kind of reminds me of that scene in Brubaker when they began finding the graves of prisoners in some farmer’s field nearby.


8 posted on 11/21/2019 8:08:27 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: OttawaFreeper

BEAT ME TO IT! Goes back to Cummins Prison farm, Arkansas.


30 posted on 11/21/2019 8:45:36 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: OttawaFreeper

Near where I live, a construction company got in trouble back in the early 90s. They were building a big condo complex in an area that was a giant potter’s field used to bury Spanish Flu victims back in the 1910s. Nothing was marked, and I guess they didn’t bother to do any research before they bought the land, so they made no attempt to find the graves or anything. The workers just started pulling up bones with the backhoes when they were getting ready to lay the foundations. This was the primary mass grave area for the whole north side of Chicago too, so we’re talking a LOT of bones.

Well, the workers called the boss, and the boss said “just throw the bones in the dumpster”. Somebody dropped the dime on him pretty quick and he had to pay tons of fines and the work stopped for about 3 years while they had to clear out the whole site.


32 posted on 11/21/2019 8:50:44 AM PST by Boogieman
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