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Stemmata949

Answer me this:

When you accidentally uncover a cache of human skulls while planting stuff in your own back yard, is there any obligation to tell anyone about it?

Posted - February 1, 2021
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  • 19937
    Yes.
      February 1, 2021 7:40 AM MST
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  • 34251
    Yes you are required to inform the police.
      February 1, 2021 7:44 AM MST
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  • 8214
    Yes, call the police.  There may be families looking for the people who's skull's you found. 
      February 1, 2021 7:55 AM MST
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  • 53504

     

      (who’s skull’s whose skulls)

      February 1, 2021 9:30 AM MST
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  • 8214
    Dang it!  foiled again. 
      February 1, 2021 12:31 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Yes I think there would be a moral obligation to report finding all these presumably human bones.
      February 1, 2021 8:05 AM MST
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  • 53504

     

      With great glee and a relieved mind, I’m focusing on the word “accidentally” and incorporating it into my alibi just as I’m making the phone call. (Cough, cough.)
    ~

      February 1, 2021 9:32 AM MST
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  • 11102
    Legally you do have to report it to the police but in doing so you might be setting yourself up for a curse.  The skulls could be from a sacred aboriginal burial ground and removing them might get you cursed. Cheers! This post was edited by Nanoose at February 1, 2021 12:43 PM MST
      February 1, 2021 9:59 AM MST
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  • 44603
    Forget what everyone else says. Your property, your skulls. I'm sure you could find a use for them. Maybe have a yard sale.
      February 1, 2021 12:44 PM MST
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  • 3719
    Yes, to the Police. If satisfied the remains are not recent they pass the report to professional archaeologists.

    A cutting for a new road in my area of the Southern English coast in 2011 exhumed a number of skeletons whose skulls were all in one corner of the mass grave. If I recall aright It was determined they had probably been a Viking raiding-party killed by the locals.
      February 2, 2021 3:44 PM MST
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