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Arvada Cemetery Gets Hit By Vandals

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 16 August 2006
By Suzanne McCarroll (CBS4) ARVADA, Colo. A place of rest became a playground for vandals as they toppled tombstones and left liquor bottles throughout the cemetery Tuesday night. About 100 headstones were either turned over or broken at the Arvada Cemetery on Independence Street. Relatives whose families are buried at the cemetery were stunned to learn about the vandalism. "I noticed my grandma's stone was knocked over," said Rene Mattek whose mother and grandmother are buried at the cemetery. "These are people that we love and people that we come up here to grieve and to spend time with and for somebody who doesn't know these people to come up here and destroy things we have put up here for that reason." The cemetery opened in 1863 and has had occasional problems with trespassers, but workers said they've never seen anything like this before. "Some of them are easily put back into place and some of them are very difficult because their old and big and heavy," said Warren Cobb from Arvada Cemetery. Mattek said her grandma Dottie would be horrified by what happened. "These people mean so much to me," Mattek said. "They're my family." Mattek said she will bury her stepfather along side them later next week. The cemetery is left unlocked at night so that police cruisers can check it but no one else is supposed to be there after sunset. Police didn't have any suspects but were still investigating. http://cbs4denver.com/local/local_story_200222040.html

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries