Grave-robbing Badgers Dig Up British Cemetery

There is a grave problem at a British cemetery: Badgers are robbing the graves.

The rascally creatures have tunnelled under coffins and even excavated bones and human remains at Radnor Street Cemetery in Swindon, a town in the southwestern part of England about 81 miles from London.

The graveyard has been around since 1881 and holds 33,000 deceased Brits. It's been only recently, however, that the badgers have become a problem,according to the BBC.

It seems the tenacious badgers have burrowed under numerous graves and bringing bones to the surface, a distressing situation for the relatives of those interred there.

Mark Sutton, of the Friends of Radnor Street Cemetery, told the Swindon Advertiser that he thinks badgers are "lovely," but wishes they didn't like the cemetery so much.

“In some places they have burrowed right under the graves, toppling some headstones and more disturbingly, depositing human bones on the surface," he told the paper. “Two or three years ago I received a phone call from a distressed person to say vandals had struck. I visited the cemetery to see the grass completely torn up. I have never seen it so bad. It wasn’t vandals but the very cute badgers.”

However, a spokesperson for the Swindon Town Council says nothing can be done to remove the grave-disturbing critters because the cemetery was designated a nature reserve in 2005, making it illegal to badger the badgers.

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