Boneghazi - Tumblrette Arrested for Stealing/Selling Bones from Cemetary

Source: New York Magazine

Tumblr was rocked to its very core last December by a situation now known as Boneghazi — the last great meme of 2015. In a screenshot circulating on the blog network, a witch named Ender Darling offered up some human bones for sale, allegedly collected from a local New Orleans cemetery. What followed was a simultaneously amused and horrified discourse about witchcraft, spells, class, and race.

We now know what happened in the aftermath. Suspected of trafficking in human remains, Darling’s home was subject to “periodic surveillances” over six days in January, according to the New Orleans Advocate. On January 28, the home was raided by investigators who, according to court records obtained by the Advocate, “recovered at least 11 bones and four teeth.”

It gets crazier:

Investigators also subpoenaed all correspondence from Darling’s Facebook profiles, a request that yielded more than 12,000 pages of information. The messages indicated the witch had been obtaining bones from a graveyard beginning on Nov. 16, “primarily acting alone, but also with a roommate,” court records state.

Two of Darling’s former roommates, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they had nothing to do with Darling’s bone collection or related rituals. “I think she thought she had way more power than she actually had,” one of them said.

You think?

The investigation is ongoing.

Darling received tons of threats after the initial offer to send collected bone fragments to other witches, and admitted to sending “one human tooth and two human shards” to someone, asking only for enough money to cover the cost of shipping.

Darling has since moved to Florida, partially because of safety concerns.

So she a cemetary, sold remains, and then wondered why she caught flak for it.

Tyce would be proud.

 

[Dr. Meme]

proof that you should always respect skeletons

 

[Hat]

The Advocate covered this? What the Hell does bone theft have to do with gay people?

 

[DZ 305]

The Advocate covered this? What the Hell does bone theft have to do with gay people?

Because this exceptional individual played the oppression card, thus forcing them to give her ass pats. Tit for tat sort of thing

 

[Vitriol]

We had a thread on this lol.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/tumbl...-warnings-and-filthy-hair.16310/#post-1200572

 

[Tranhuviya]

Stealing from our skeleton brothers isn't cool, bro.

 

[XYZpdq]

Spoiler: Wow they really

pulled a boner

 

[Sanshain]

But is she blending them?

 

[Splendid]

Grave robbing is actually rather common in New Orleans. I've been reassured by certain storekeepers that certain items "do not contain the bones of any human that has died within the past 10,000 years" (it's legal to sell remains older than that) unprompted. It's partially the local Voodoo religion, as well as some strains of Santeria and hippie white people practicing Wicca grabbing bones to be True and Honest cultists like the first two groups.

 

[OtterParty]

The Advocate covered this? What the Hell does bone theft have to do with gay people?

it involves bones obviously

 

[Trombonista]

The Advocate covered this? What the Hell does bone theft have to do with gay people?

Wrong Advocate.

 

[Splendid]

Wrong Advocate.

That makes a lot more sense. I was afraid that mainstream gay outlets were starting to go full SJW or Limbaugh and just defend every member of their group regardless of what they'd done.

 

[AnOminous]

That makes a lot more sense. I was afraid that mainstream gay outlets were starting to go full SJW or Limbaugh and just defend every member of their group regardless of what they'd done.

The story didn't really make the white ghoul stealing dead black people's bodies look all that good.

 

[RP 520]

Do they not have guards watching cemeteries to prevent this kind of thing as well as general vandalism? Especially in a place like New Orleans where they have the large cemeteries filled with ornate vaults of wealthy, famous dead.

 

[AnOminous]

Do they not have guards watching cemeteries to prevent this kind of thing as well as general vandalism? Especially in a place like New Orleans where they have the large cemeteries filled with ornate vaults of wealthy, famous dead.

They're not breaking into those opulent cemeteries of the rich and famous. It's an old city with lots of old cemeteries including entirely abandoned ones. It's also below sea level, which is why the famous, opulent cemeteries are full of people "buried" above ground and in mausoleums and the like.

So these old cemeteries are constantly eroded by the rain and general swampiness of the area as well as recurrent things like hurricanes and flooding. When the ground subsides, it dumps bones out on the surface that then get washed all over the place, so bone hunters can find these things above ground even when they're not literally robbing graves (which people also do including from those opulent cemeteries).

Who do you think is going to pay to guard these cemeteries anyway? The people in them are dead, any money they paid on a so-called "perpetual care" contract is long gone, so cemeteries do what they do anywhere else, which is as little as possible.

 

[Splendid]

Yeah, perpetual care in New Orleans is kind of a ripoff. Even if they tried their hardest, the graves would eventually be eroded by the exposure to the elements due to being above ground, unless the cemeteries were prepared to constantly take care of them like an actual inhabited building, and of course, no cemetery is prepared to do that.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

But is she blending them?

I'M NEVER USING A FUCKING BLENDER AGAIN.

 

[*Asterisk*]

As if I needed another reason to go with cremation or burial at sea, aside from the whole "countless people who will spit on any part of my corpse they can find" reason.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

This story came up in a bone collecting group I'm part of on FB. People tend to be wary of others selling human remains for this exact reason, you don't know where they got it from.
Kind of going off the subject of bones coming to the surface after rain, in the event that you find human remains in an odd place, away from a cemetary, the proper response is "holy shit it's a skeleton let me call the coroner".