Classy.
Engraving from 1804, used in the article Hammersmith ghosts. The image comes from Kirby’s Wonderful and Scientific Museum, volume II published in 1804 in London.
via The Scotsman:
A MAN has been fined after pretending to be a ghost in a Portsmouth cemetery.
Anthony Stallard, 24, was seen kicking a football around with a friend in Kingston Cemetery after the pair had been drinking.
He was reported to police, who detained him and charged him with using threatening or abusive words, or behaviour likely to cause distress.
Tim Concannon, prosecuting at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court, said: “While the football was going on they were shouting and this defendant was effectively singing loudly and being disrespectful in among the graves.
“He was throwing himself backwards, waving his arms about and going ‘wooooooo’. I’m assuming he was pretending to be a ghost.”
Stallard had accepted at an earlier hearing that his behaviour could have been seen to cause distress to grieving relatives, and had pleaded guilty.
Denise Saunders, defending, said: “He has accepted that his behaviour, if it had been outside of a cemetery would not have been inappropriate, but inside a cemetery while people are grieving for their loved ones it might be.
“He is apologetic as demonstrated by his early guilty plea.”
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