Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Oh Baby

Folks, this tombstone is ginormous. Like so big I'm pretty confident I could park my car on it.

And what's with the exceptional detail? No name, no flowers, no flair, just vast amounts of concrete.

Perhaps this is for a baby elephant. Perhaps someone mixed up way too much concrete and didn't want it to go to waste. Perhaps that tree is going to eventually win this battle.

5 comments:

  1. I think they were afraid that baby was going to get up again and come after them for forgetting to bury Teddy with him. Can't sleep without Teddy.

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  2. this actually kinda depresses me. I mean, the poor thing died in 1919, so it probably didn't have a name yet. bummer.

    but yes, the size of the tombstone is bizarre, I totally agree with that one.

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  3. Maybe someone buried a family pet...or, like, a racehorse that made them a crapload of moolah there. Ya never know. And, thanks to the lack of any inscription on the stone ("Here lies Baby, our beloved equine money-maker", for example - God knows there's enough room there) we'll never know. Bastidges.

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  4. Hmm... that looks big enough that they might have just cast the body in there, if it is concrete. Economical? Didn't feel like digging?

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