Now, I know that people when they are gone often have the family members or friends that are left behind come and visit them. I know one guy who would listen to baseball games on the radio when he would visit his dad.
I have seen people leave cigars, bottles of rum, and even books. My 90 year old grandmother has gone every other week to my grandfather’s to tend to the flowers and things like that.
On the other hand, there are some things that when you hear about people doing them you have to wonder either what the person was thinking or if they were thinking at all.
A Bentonville man told a judge he was honoring a man by repeatedly putting dead animals on his grave. Joseph Stroud, 79, pleaded guilty Monday to misdemeanor defacing objects of public respect.
He was originally charged with a felony, but agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge under a plea deal.
Stroud was given a one-year suspended sentence. He must pay $2,529 in victim restitution within 30 days. Stroud was arrested Aug. 10. He admitted damaging a burial monument by repeatedly placing dead animals on Fred McKinney’s gravestone between May 31 and July 31 in the Pea Ridge Cemetery.
“They will have to replace the headstone because of the blood and guts,” Hawkins said. “It’s permanently stained.”
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