“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
I had been meaning to post about this, but I've been too busy.
The body was released on Thursday, and apparently his wife didn't want his sorry self and a funeral home near her refused to keep him. The poor guy running the funeral home where he is currently on ice (in Worcester about 60 miles west of Boston), has to have a 6 office police detail 24/7 to keep people from storming the place.
Uncle (who called him all sorts of names before he was killed) came up from MD and prepared the body, and wants him buried in Cambridge, but the city has refused to issue a burial permit. Mom wants him back in Russia but its unclear who will pay to make that happen. The Governor has refused to help out. It's possible the Secretary of State may try and help facilitate the overseas transfer. I'm hoping that happens - he doesn't belong here.
This is why you don't mess with Boston -- people here have long, long, long memories, and they hold grudges forever.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
I imagine there must be a state law re the disposition of unclaimed bodies (or bodies of those whose family members are unable to afford to take care of matters), whether cremation, burial in a potter's field, or donation to science. Personally, I'd be happy if his remains are dealt with that way; to do anything differently only gives this guy more attention than he deserves.
BOSTON (AP) — The chief of the police in Worcester (WUS'-tur), Mass., says the department has been reluctantly dragged into the efforts to find a burial plot for dead Boston Marathon suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev (TAM'-ehr-luhn tsahr-NEYE'-ehv), and a deal for the state prisons department to take the body has fallen through.
Chief Gary Gemme (jem) said Wednesday a deal to bury the body at a prison site was reached on Monday, then "dissolved" on Tuesday. He said efforts to contact state officials since then have gone unanswered.
State corrections officials did not immediately return a message.
Gemme says Worcester police are wasting precious resources providing security at the funeral parlor where the body is being kept. He said sending the body to Russia is "not an option."
Gemme said: "We are not barbarians. We bury the dead."
Gemme says Worcester police are wasting precious resources providing security at the funeral parlor where the body is being kept.
Okay, while this is being sorted out, why can't they just move his body back to the police morgue, (where there's plenty of security already) and free up these police resources, (and also give the funeral parlor director a break.)?
Why? I guess because that makes too much sense (unless there's some law or regulation prohibiting it, in which case it would still make sense to try and get it waived).