Bones, Caskets Unearthed by Sandy + cop humor

[Bill USA]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/superstorm-sandy-unearths-bones-caskets-160641625--abc-news-topstories.html

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Residents of New Haven, Conn., got an eerie Halloween surprise when a famed tree uprooted during Hurricane Sandy, unearthing the bones of a woman who died nearly 200 years ago.

Around 6 p.m. on Monday the famous tree at New Haven's Upper Green, named the "Lincoln Oak" after President Abraham Lincoln, was uprooted as Sandy swept through. New Haven resident Katie Carbo was passing by when she saw the back of a skull in the 60- to 70-foot-tall tree's roots, police said.

Carbo quickly contacted the New Haven police, and soon after detectives were on the scene as a crowd of onlookers formed.[font size="+1"] Officer David Hartman with the New Haven Police Department told ABCNews.com that the timing of the discovery was particularly striking.

I found myself standing there, among onlookers saying,[font color="red"] 'wow this is really cool, the day before Halloween,' [/font]" he said.[/font]
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[Taverner]

1. Cops, Firemen, Nurses, EMTs, morticians and coroners can tell these jokes publicly

If you are running for President, not so much

As it should be

[HockeyMom]

2. Maybe it was used as a hanging tree

a hundred years ago and just left the body there?

[Confusious]

5. Why would that be the first thing that comes to mind?

Do you think every town in the states hung black people on weekends for fun?

If you had read the article, you would hav found out why, and it had nothing to do with hanging.

[HockeyMom]

6. It was a burial ground

but there is a very old tree in Washington Square park that according to urban legend was a hanging tree back in the Revolutionary War and they used it to hang criminals; murderers, robbers, etc. Not all criminals sentenced to death back in those days went before a firing squad. The most common method was by hanging. This is what I was thinking.

[hobbit709]

7. What makes you think only black people were hung 200 years ago?

And yes, it was a burial ground.

[HooptieWagon]

3. Self delete

Should have read the entire article before posting.

[Hometown Slice]

4. Not the first time it has happened there.

New Haven police said that the bones belonged to a probable victim of yellow fever or smallpox, who likely was buried between 1799 and 1821, when the headstones were removed to New Haven's Grove Street Cemetery, but the bodies were never relocated.

The Lincoln Oak was planted at the town green by Admiral Andrew Hall Foote's Grand Army of the Republic post, in honor of the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's birthday in 1909, according to the New Haven police.

Robert S. Greenberg, a local historian, said that the town green is the burial ground for as many as 5,000 to 10,000 bodies.

Hartman said that he learned today that this is actually not the first time this has happened on the historic Upper Green. According to a local historian, the same situation occurred in 1931, when an uprooted tree brought up skeletal remains, he said.