ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN--

Here is precisely the reason we occasionally read news of a child being killed when climbing on tombstones.  This horrible, potential tragedy (pictured above) is in the Mohicanville Cemetery of Ashland County Ohio.

We applaud the effort of township trustees there to bring this danger to the public's attention with their sign.

But, we also wonder why the legal response to such a grave danger seems to be merely a sign.

In the recent past we had tragedies with youngsters being trapped and suffocated inside often-abandoned refrigerators.  The legal remedy there was to require the removal of refrigerator doors before discarding them.

Certainly a similar solution can be found to fix this problem in our cemeteries.

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Fogeyisms encountered this problem while geocaching with friends Mark and Nancy Meinzer.  Cemeteries are a popular place to hide geocaches.  They usually have ample parking, are places of quiet solitude and caches always are placed with the permission of cemetery authorities, virtually always away from grave sites.

Besides reflecting on the lives we read about on grave markers during our visits (as Nancy, Mark and Sue are doing in the lead photo) they can be breath-taking scenes as in the following, un-retouched photo taken that very same day.  In this case the cache was hidden in a hollow fence-post in a far, upper corner of Pioneer Cemetery overlooking a large dairy farm northeast of Loudonville.