Mary Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 Mill Road Cemetery is grade II listed People are moving the lids from tombs in a Cambridge cemetery so they can sleep in them for the night, police have said. The cemetery is between Mill Road and Norfolk Street. PC Alan Tregilgas of Cambridgeshire Police said in a statement that in some cases "tombstone lids have been pushed off so they can sleep inside them". A spokeswoman for the cemetery said she had not seen any evidence of people sleeping in the graves. Maintained by Cambridge City Council, the cemetery was purchased in 1847 for use by 13 parishes as extensions to their already over crowded graveyards. The site is grade II listed on the English Heritage register of parks, gardens and cemeteries and has a number of listed monuments. 'Down on luck' PC Tregilgas said: "It is not unusual to find drunken persons sleeping in this area." The Reverend Margaret Widdess, secretary of the committee that represents the parishes, said: "The cemetery is open to the public and that includes people who are down on their luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 I can think of better places to sleep in the dead of night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 Trainee vampires? Send for Buffy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 I blame the cost of living. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 A popular sleeping venue - folk are dying to get in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 It's a matter of grave concern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 It isn't that inter esting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Funny in a way but it does go to show the level of desperation of these homeless people that they are willing to sleep in a tomb to keep warm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 A tramp was sleepng in one of the tombs when a corpse poked him in the ribs and told him, "For gawd's sake shut the hell up with the snoring! It's loud enough to waken the dead!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Funny in a way but it does go to show the level of desperation of these homeless people that they are willing to sleep in a tomb to keep warm. My thought exactly Evils, I wont even walk through our local grave yard at night as even that freeks me out (strange I know) let alone spending the night there. To think that some desperate people are removing tomb stones lids just to find somewhere safe to sleep at night is quite shocking. I suppose on a plus side it would be very quiet and they probably wouldn't get mugged or verbally abused by the usual scrotes who probably taunt them if they sleep in the streets, parks or shop doorways. Very sad They could have some 'fun' though scaring the life out of the likes of me once darkness falls though. My grandma did much the same to some passers by when she accidentally got locked in Manchester Road cemetery many many years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 I lived next to a cemetary for 5 years when I was a child. The dead are just that - dead, and can't harm anybody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Dizzy, lovie, do feel free to have a nice after dark stroll through the graveyard and enjoy the quietness and solitude. Nobody there is going to harm you. It's the living you have to be afraid of, not the dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Yeah I know that Cleo (petal) and Asp as my mum always used to quote her mum (my grandama) who always used to say much the same ie ' the dead can't hurt you only the living can' . What about zombies and evil poltergeists or other mischeivous spirits etc though PS Asp.. maybe your childhood memories of living next to a graveyard are now a subconcious and deep routed reason why you choose to spend so much of your time out at sea...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Actually it's because I need the money............................................ :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Any jobs going spare on your off shore safe floater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 You have been watching too many horror films on tv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Any jobs going spare on your off shore safe floater Glad you didn't mention scrubbing the decks was an option could lead to all sorts of innuendo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 If it only were so easy Dizzy! You have to have so many training courses and certificates these days just to be allowed to scrub the decks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Somehow I cannot see Dizzy as a scrubber. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limey Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Mybe this thread should have been, (Tomb it may concern) Dale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Good one Limey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Somehow I cannot see Dizzy as a scrubber. I'll take that as a compliment Cleo... unless of course you mean that I'm a lazy bugger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Lots of coffin' in a graveyard. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Dead quiet I assume, but shrouded in mystery! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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