Well, technically they aren’t suspected of necrophilia per se but we all know these things happen in baby steps. From The Chon:
Two men and a juvenile are accused of digging up a corpse, decapitating the body and using the head to smoke marijuana, according to court documents.
Matthew Gonzalez and Kevin Jones have been charged with the misdemeanor offense of abuse of a corpse, said Scott Durfee, a spokesman for the Harris County District Attorneys Office.
According to documents filed in the case, Gonzalez, Jones and an unnamed juvenile on March 15 went to an Humble cemetery, dug up a man’s grave, left with the head and turned it into a “bong.”
Gonzalez told authorities about the incident Wednesday, and showed officers the defaced grave, including a 4-foot hole. Because of a heavy rain, officers were unable to determine whether the casket or the body had been disturbed.
Just good clean fun right tokers? But don’t worry, this has nothing to do with pot. After all Brian77008 says in the comments:
This is disgusting. But make no mistake. Pot did not make these guys go out and dig up a corpse and do this. They did it because they are inherently bad people.
Of course. I recall hundreds of cases where “bad people” dug up graves and stole skulls to drink beer out of or eat their cereal from. Getting high has absolutely nothing to do with what police suspect to be up to four people stealing a skull to smoke pot from. Nothing.
The Chron has a longer article on the story detailing how this ring of petty thieves ended up getting caught. Police believe the person who originally admitted tot the desecration, Kevin Wade Jones, thought it would distract police from questioning him about car break-ins. Really:
The Kingwood teenager’s story of decapitating a corpse and using the head to smoke marijuana was so outlandish that at first Houston Police Department senior police officer Jim Adkins did not believe it.
Yet, Kevin Wade Jones Jr., 17, appeared almost indifferent as he relayed the bizarre description of his and two friends’ activities at an Humble area graveyard, Adkins said.
“I just doubted it because it’s very morbid, and I couldn’t see anybody doing something like this,” Adkins said Thursday.
Not until police went to the home of another Kingwood 17-year-old, Matthew Richard Gonzalez, did the officer believe the tale.
“He regurgitated in his plate of food when I asked him about it,” Adkins said. “So I knew there was some truth to the story.”
Now, Jones, Gonzalez and a juvenile whose name has not been released are each charged with abuse of a corpse, a misdemeanor. All three were arrested Wednesday night.
Police said a fourth suspect is wanted for questioning.
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The teens first came to police’s attention during a vehicle burglary investigation. While being questioned, Jones told of desecrating the gravesite a month or two ago. Adkins said he believes the tale was intended to distract police from the vehicle break-in.
Jones claimed he and his friends used shovels to dig up the body and removed the corpse’s head with a garden tool, Adkins said. Jones also revealed he and the other two boys took the severed head to the juvenile’s home, where they used the skull as a “bong” to smoke marijuana, the officer said.
Read the rest. The grave the cops found disturbed belonged to an 11-year-old boy named Willie Simms who died in 1921 and the graveyard may or may not be set aside for Black WWI and WWII veterans who died. No one seems to know much about it.
Hmmm. Desecrating the grave of a child in a mysterious cemetery no one maintains or knows anything about. Sounds like a great idea unless you believe in vengeful spirits haunting the living.
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If smoking pot makes people do stuff like this then millions of people in america should be doing it. The dumbest thing I ever did while high was eat spiced salami after months of having eaten a vegetarian diet. It made me sick to my stomach. By the way, how many people end up in teh grave in teh first place because of beer?
Since I don’t drink don’t throw the beer canard out at me.
But Millions of people DO do stupid things every year. We have an out of control teen pregnancy rate (often linked to drug and alcohol use) a rise in supposed schizophrenia (and studies have shown young chronic, heavy pot smokers can express symptoms of mental illness) and 1/4th of the country thinks there’s an “Illuminati” made up of Republicans, space lizards and Jews secretly running the world.
And more to the point, people smoke pot or drink so that they will do stupid things. They want to lower their inhibitions and use a chemical to attempt to overcome their social awkwardness. When some people’s inhibitions are lowered they eat bad salami, others desecrate dead bodies. That’s just the way it is.
People who do drugs do stupid things. Like invade foreign countries, or see WMDs everywhere.
Yes, I remember seeing the Times coverage f Iraq using nerve, Mustard and clorine gas on the Iranians during the Iran/Iraq war and thinking “Wow, the Times must be on drugs, and all those Iranians who allowed themselves to be killed ofr the photos were on drugs etc. When Saddam told people he had WMDs I remember saying “Well, we must be on drugs to believe him” and I said the same thing when Al Gore claimed Iraq had WMDs in the 2000 election.
Don’t you have a “coexist” bumper sticker to slap on the back of the Volvo your parents are paying for? For now anyway sine like most suckers they’ve lost a bunch of money investing in hedge funds which every person with brain knew was a scam.
I have a sister who is 54 with the exceptions of very few months at a time, she has been a chronic pot smoker since she was 13. Its sad really she did work and have a husband and live life but as a loaded woman. she dressed great and knew what to spray on her clothes and such to keep the smell off.. NOW that she has graves diesase she got a pot card and it at the dispensary every week spendign and smoking hundreds a week, it so sad, I cant even carry on a convo with her she forgets something for one second, its not worth my time trying to talk to her any more so frustrating, I did confront her just now saying girl you need to slow down use the post as u would any meds, every 4*6 hours if needed NOT EVERY SINGLE second of the day shes has a bong sucking it while we are on the phone, a joint after joint in the car, its wrong, she wonders why I never wanted my NOW teen age daughter spending any alone time with her.. guess she will never learn..