A 17-year-old girl was taken to a hospital Tuesday night in Beverly after a headstone fell on her leg, police said.
Police responded to a medical call at St. Mary’s Cemetery on Brimbal Avenue around 7 p.m. Tuesday, and found the injured teenager with the headstone on top of her leg, officials said. The gravestone was 3-feet high and 4-feet wide, authorities said.
Officers lifted and removed the headstone, and she was taken to Beverly Hospital, said Officer Mike Boccuzzi of the Beverly police department. Her current condition is unknown,
“She tried to sit on the headstone, and she slipped causing her to fall and the headstone to fall with her, Boccuzzi said.
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I’m guessing that people familiar with “Beverly” would also know where St. Mary’s Cemetery on Brimbal Avenue is. How many here know where Beverly is? Looks like Mass …?
Massachusetts? Massapequa? Massy?
A message from beyond the grave? Get you a-s of my tombstone !!! Or simply cemetery workers did not re-attached the stone correctly after a removal for another burial?