strange method of getting high.
According to Sowetan Live News,they are suspected of
stealing ashes from a
cemetery to be smoked.
An employee at Mooifontein
Cemetery in Kempton Park,
Ekurhuleni, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said
more than 50 memorials have been vandalized by the drug addicts to
steal the ashes He said the theft has been going on for some time and
it was difficult to keep out the thugs who gain access to the
graveyard through holes in
the fence where people went in and out as they pleased.
''Drug addicts vandalize these things because they smoke the ashes. We
man the gate but do not carry out patrols in the cemetery," the man
said.
When the cemetery was
visited by the Sowetan Live
news, empty wooden
containers used to store
ashes where all that were
left of some compartments, with memorial stones
bearing the names of the
deceased missing. Some
were still intact, though.
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