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December 2, 2007
BOWDOIN COLLEGE GRANT, Maine--The high price of metal apparently has prompted thieves to pilfer the remains of a B-52 bomber that crashed and killed seven servicemen on Elephant Mountain 45 years ago. The soaring price of metal has left nothing sacred to thieves, said Piscataquis County Sheriff John Goggin. The crash site is listed on the Maine Historic Archaeological Sites inventory, and a memorial service is held there each January. There have been a lot of break-ins at camps and summer homes where copper tubing and other metals have been taken, but desecrating a grave site is another matter, Goggin said. "It takes a real lowlife to even contemplate doing something like that," he said.
--AP
December 2, 2007
BOWDOIN COLLEGE GRANT, Maine--The high price of metal apparently has prompted thieves to pilfer the remains of a B-52 bomber that crashed and killed seven servicemen on Elephant Mountain 45 years ago. The soaring price of metal has left nothing sacred to thieves, said Piscataquis County Sheriff John Goggin. The crash site is listed on the Maine Historic Archaeological Sites inventory, and a memorial service is held there each January. There have been a lot of break-ins at camps and summer homes where copper tubing and other metals have been taken, but desecrating a grave site is another matter, Goggin said. "It takes a real lowlife to even contemplate doing something like that," he said.
--AP