Video taken Friday by Aisha Woods and shared with KTLA shows empty spaces and rubble where the headstones, some made with copper or bronze, were once placed at Woodlawn Celestial Gardens cemetery on West Greenleaf Boulevard.
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Nothing new here. About 10 years ago at the cemetery near Empire CA where all my family is buried, it was the dope fiends stealing the bronze flower urns at each grave. It got so bad the cemetery had to hire private security for a while.
You want to get haunted?
ReplyDeleteBecause this is how you get haunted.
At the local bar one day ol DA came in with a story. He had left the bar around 10p the night before. He always took a short cut through a grave yard. Drunk he walked right into a fresh dug grave. He said he was climbing out and two boys and two girls, teens, were walking on the path. They saw ol DA, who was ugly, climbing outta that grave and they ran screaming. DA said those kids shit a blue streak when they left. To hear DA tell the story the whole bar was about on the floor gut laughing.
ReplyDeleteThis along with catalytic converter theft should be really easy to stop. There's only a certain number of places that'll pay cash for recycling of copper, etc. And there's only a certain people who'd have a reasonable amount of copper/cats/other to recycle outside of theft. All the po-po has to do is stake those places out and there you go. Tweaker walks in with a bunch of copper tubing that looks brand new, you got him.
ReplyDeleteBottom line is cops don't ever solve crimes, the powers that be don't care, and the recycle centers might as well be part of the criminal organization.
They are.
DeleteI carried my grandmother to rest at that cemetery, next to grampa. They lived in Lynwood about 60 years. When they bought the plots who knew what Compton would become. That was 1971. I don't think anyone has been back since, because cultural enrichment.
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