"Attention! Shopper channeling buried spirit in aisle 5!"


♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫
When the shadows of this life have gone,
I'll fly away;
Like a bird from prison bars has flown,
I'll fly away (I'll fly away)

I'll fly away, Oh Glory
I'll fly away; (in the morning)
When I die, Hallelujah, by and by,
I'll fly away (I'll fly away).
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came for the Poltergeist references, Leaving satisfied

So a town of 39,000 which already has a WalMart Supercenter is now getting another WalMart Supercenter, but this one has the bonus of going on top of slaves graves? (that is a great name for band by the way)

Not to question their marketing and growth plan, but is the guy from Starbuck now in charge of the WalMart development team?

Wal*Fart can bury the bodies of their new slaves with the old slaves.

Let my people...Save!

On one hand, I don't understand why people are obsessed with the locations that corpses are buried and the idea that there's some great harm in disturbing these corpses, especially in cases where the corpses are old enough that its doubtful that any person alive today actually personally knew any of the people whose bodies were buried there.

On the other hand, I really don't care for WalMart.

At the end of the day, a big, resounding, "meh".

Build a Walmart on a slave Burial ground- get over it.

Build a Walmart anywhere near someplace where some asshole died fighting to keep slaves- Blasphemy!

I love Walmart, it's a great place to get away from hipsters and hippies.

GoSurfing: ExperianScaresCthulhu: If it's that unimportant to steamroll over a gravesite, why not steamroll over all gravesites equally.

I believe the day will come that you can no longer even be buried in the ground, and all existing cemeteries will be used for their real estate value. I mean, don't you kind of have to be a self important person to want a permanent little spot on this earth? Lots of crazy ethical questions are going to come up in the future.

True, but after the rapture happens a lot of that space will be freed up.

/or a zombie apocaplypse

SwiftFox: By all accounts, the cemetery was an acre, and a deed from 1903 says it was an exact square, with General Coffee's grave in the center.

Hello, FTA the cemetery seems to be the slave owner's.

FTA: "graveyard where the ancestors of her husband, Edward O'Neal, and their slaves are buried. "

Marcintosh: "The only absolutely certain way to know who was there is to dig,"

mmmm nope -
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Ground Penetrating Radar - gets used all the time round these parts

Link
and a linkey just in case you happen to be in this same situation some fine day

"a team of private archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar concluded that the rectangular shape was "unlikely to have been used as a cemetery." But a geographer and a historian from the University of North Alabama found depressions in the soil that suggest burials may have occurred where Walmart plans to build. "

Wonder why they don't bring the ground penetrating radar back to check those depressions. I suspect that they are playing up the possibility of more graves in a bid to keep Wal-Mart from building there.

gopher321: WalMart - "We'll Terrify You !...(with our low prices)"


"I like the way you think."

Awful lot of butthurt over some obsolete farm equipment that mother earth already recycled.

Marcintosh: Ground Penetrating Radar - gets used all the time round these parts

There is science involved in ground penetrating radar and science is considered to be of the debil in those parts.

Marcintosh: "The only absolutely certain way to know who was there is to dig,"

mmmm nope -
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Ground Penetrating Radar - gets used all the time round these parts

Link
and a linkey just in case you happen to be in this same situation some fine day

So, farkers. I pose a question to you. Is penetrating a corpse with ground penetrating radar... Necrophilia?

washington-babylon: . Is penetrating a corpse with ground penetrating radar... Necrophilia?

How many times in an hour is this being done?
Details.

jaybeezey: ExperianScaresCthulhu: Hand Banana: "The only absolutely certain way to know who was there is to dig," said Ms. O'Neal, 65, a retired art conservator who has led the family's opposition to the development. "And that's something we obviously think should be avoided."

Uh, why should it obviously be avoided again?

Don't Native Americans get protections so that if a burial ground is discovered, all construction must stop? Other Americans don't get that protection?

I also don't get to put up a sacred casino wherever I see fit.

Oh lordy. Never heard about how the U.S. broke so many treaties with Native American tribes? Or how modern-day Native Americans have the most unemployment and shortest lifespans of major ethnicities in the U.S.? Give 'em a crumb, for cry-ay.

I wonder how large is this plot of land. 40 acres?

Am I 1 of the only people who here who actually wants to be buried and occupy a plot of land for the rest of eternity? I guess I believe in having some sort of sentimental value for my body, I'd like to know what happens to it after I'm gone, etc. I kinda like the idea of it ending up in a secluded plot of land and being able to occupy that until the earth gets swallowed by the sun when it hits its red giant phase or something. Its a bit self important, but we're all individualists right? Who here honestly does everything for the greater good? And besides, I'm guessing none of you have really traveled or been out west or anything. We're not running out of land anytime soon and I'm pretty sure our civilization will collapse long before we reach 100s or 1000s of people per mile on a worldwide scale.

As such, I believe that a person's resting place is that, their final resting place. Its best to be respectful of it. I don't necessarily believe in an afterlife or ghosts. But its like with Christianity and other religions, I don't necessarily believe in any of them or observe tradition but I'm at least respectful.

Walmart needs to fark off. Everything that can be bought at a WalMart can be bought at another store, usually another large chain that at least has better customer service. They have decent prices on a lot of things, but that doesn't make up for the fact that it takes 1/2 hour just to checkout. I guess my point is, they don't need to build another WalMart, and if they do they can just build it somewhere else.

vudukungfu: washington-babylon: . Is penetrating a corpse with ground penetrating radar... Necrophilia?

How many times in an hour is this being done?
Details.

Assuming the average cemetery, the speed would be a slow walk... I'd say about 100 corpses per hour, depending on the size of the radar and the depth.
/of the graves, you sick bastards!