05-06-2016, 08:57 AM
(05-06-2016, 08:49 AM)xxlt Wrote: Common sense, the procedure of literally every cemetery I have ever seen (I lived by one for years and never saw the gates there or at any other unlocked from dusk to well after dawn), and almost certainly the law.
There are laws against abusing a corpse. Did you know that? It is true. There are laws to protect people from that sort of trauma - the trauma of learning your loved ones corpse was defiled.
There are, I imagine, laws that likewise protect the interred remains of people. One poster has posted repeatedly about how traumatic the accident was to people who had relatives buried there. If you think there are not laws that govern the operation of a cemetery (but there are laws that govern restaurants, gas stations, barber shops, factories, real estate offices, etc.) maybe you are right, but I would say it is on you to demonstrate this is the one 100% unregulated business in America and cemeteries have no legal obligation to secure and maintain the grounds where they inter human remains. Pretty sure the routine practice of every cemetery is rooted in a legally binding contractual agreement to provide a secure final resting place. Part of that security is preventing grave robbing and desecration, hence the fences around ALL commercial cemeteries and the LOCKED gates every night.
Or did you think they put up the fences because people are just dying to get in there? (Heard that joke as a kid.)
There are cemeteries with no fences whatsoever around them let alone locked gates, and the ones that do aren't there to protect people from themselves.
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