Fired cemetery workers steal truck, plow via 170 headstones in wild graveyard rampage

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Fired cemetery workers steal truck, plow via 170 headstones in wild graveyard rampage

Three disgruntled graveyard employees in Tennessee went on a rampage as a result of they’d simply gotten axed — hopping in an organization truck and mowing down 170 tombstones in a grim show of humanity.

The merciless carnage Monday at New Park Cemetery in Memphis had Jeff Roberts, the panicked proprietor, leaping in his private automobile to attempt to cease the trio — however not earlier than they brought on tens of hundreds of {dollars} in injury, WREG reported.

Roberts mentioned he has alerted a monument provider that he might need to put an emergency order — and employed temp crews to set all of the tombstones proper by Christmas.


Gravestones knocked down by fired workers of New Park Cemetery in Memphis. WREG

The monument of Phill, demolished by disgruntled ex-employees.
A gravestone toppled by disgruntled ex-employees. WREG

He didn’t say why the three workers have been fired, however he declined to press fees as a result of he was “involved they might do extra injury within the second.”

“We’re reaching out to households whose monuments want changing to allow them to know. We remorse that this case occurred and really feel for the households who’re affected,” he added.

The headstones price about $1,000 every.


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