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    Teen Who Cut Off Corpse's Head To Make Bong Sentenced
    Friends Say Buckalew Told Them He Did It Out Of Boredom

    POSTED: 12:52 pm EDT June 29, 2006
    ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. -- A Vermont teenager has been sentenced to prison for breaking into a tomb and cutting the head off a corpse.

    Nickolas Buckalew, 18, of Morrisville, Vt., pleaded guilty to two charges.

    One was a felony count of intentionally removing or injuring a tombstone. The other was a felony charge of intentionally disinterring and carrying away the remains of a human body.

    Buckalew was sentenced to between one and seven years in prison and was given credit for serving 14 months while awaiting trial.

    On April 8, 2005, Buckalew broke into a tomb, opened the lid of a casket and cut off the head of a corpse. He stole eyeglasses and a bow tie from the dead man. He then wrapped the head in plastic bags and took it home, The Caledonian-Record reported.

    The teen reportedly told friends that he planned to leave the head outside to dry and would then bleach it, a police affidavit said. The witnesses said his plan was to turn the skull into a bong -- a pipe generally used to smoke marijuana. Buckalew went to an apartment where some of his friends were and told them that he had chopped off the head because he was bored, according to The Caledonian-Record.

    The witnesses said they then went to the tomb to see the casket and saw that the lid was removed and the body in the casket was headless.

    Morristown said that while executing a search warrant at Buckalew’s home, they found a human head wrapped in bags, a necktie, a hacksaw, crowbar, garden trowel and two small parts of the damaged casket, according to the newspaper.

    A psychiatrist has diagnosed Buckalew with mental health issues.

    Dr. Philip Kinsler, a clinical psychologist and adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at the Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H., testified that Buckalew “has always felt extraordinarily out of place" and that Buckalew said he tried to hang himself when he was a child.

    After the incident, the victim's widow, the only family member in the area, was told of the vandalism.

    "The widow was in shock," the chief of police said said. "She did not want any information. She did not want to know any details."

    Buckalew addressed the court after his sentencing, saying, "It was a horrendous thing that I did -- what I did was appalling. I didn't think of the victim."

    He went on to say he wants to get help for his mental problems.

    He's been sent to a residential treatment program for juveniles.

    Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.



    This is really screwed up...
    I'm sorry...but if you're bored, you can get a job
    jesus I feel sorry for the dead mans family

    • synkro said...
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    • 30 Jun 2006, 03:13
    lol.

    drugs are bad, mmmk?

  • it's kind of disturbing

    • said...
    • User
    • 30 Jun 2006, 04:04
    That's pretty horrible.

  • Wow that's creepy. i think my minds twisted for the fact that the first thing i thought about is how the hell you'd make a bong out of a skull...

    but yeah, i feel terrible for the victims family, and also for the teen. if he was so mentally ill that he'd chop a head off a dead guy, he must be in pretty bad shape.

    • Jayaism said...
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    • 30 Jun 2006, 04:46
    Why would anyone want to make a bong out of a head? There are much better things to make bongs out of.

    And I don't think the guy was sick in the head, he just was like "this would be pretty fucking cool to smoke out of".

    Ok, so maybe he was a little messed up.

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  • Well I think that if his mind has the ability to ignore all reason, logic and any of his moral fibres, then it's lucky that he proved that ability on a dead person.

    • jonnie5 said...
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    • 30 Jun 2006, 04:57
    Haha, of course it was in Vermont, the capital of stupid stoned hippies.

    From Ben & Jerry's to Phish, everyone in that god damn state is weird.

    If you have the (dis)pleasure of living (in or) around Vermont, you should know how weird those people are just by listening to their radio commercials. Like Cabot cheese's "half announcer" and Chitten bank's "religiously perfect round barn." Not to mention that fucking weirdo who ran for the Senate and had a new radio commercial every week giving away a little bit more of a biography.

    Everything about them begs the question, "What the fuck is wrong with Vermont?"

    Also, he got the idea from Dennis Leary. I just wanted to be the first to say that.

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    • dmot said...
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    • 30 Jun 2006, 05:03
    you have to admit it would be pretty cool to have a skull bong.

    • said...
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    • 30 Jun 2006, 06:26
    how fucking dumb is that kid?

    you could have just as easily used a water bottle for starters, but fuck, a head?

    • jonnie5 said...
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    • 30 Jun 2006, 06:35

    Re:

    Quoth noiseandsounds:
    how fucking dumb is that kid?

    you could have just as easily used a water bottle for starters, but fuck, a head?

    Your first gripe is how stupid the guy is because he didn't use a water bottle for a bong.

    "AW MAN, WHAT A RETARD, HE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THAT WORK, HE COULDA JUST USED A WATER BOTTLE INSTEAD. WHAT AN IDIOT."

    I don't think ignorance of the "water bottle bong" is what drove him to cutting off a dead man's head. But, I like where your head is at. Leave it to a stoner to point out that it's easier to make a bong out of a water bottle than a human head.

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  • Ten bucks says it was Pete Doherty.


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  • HAAHAAHAHAH, oh man noiseandsounds just got owned, and may I point out the brilliance in jonnie5 saying "I like where your head is at" in a forum titled "Teen Who Cut Off Corpse's Head".

    Wow. I salute you jonnie5.

  • Little khar is always saluting Jonnie, if you know what I mean.





    *heads off to the graveyard for more skulls*


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    • said...
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    • 30 Jun 2006, 11:45
    A psychiatrist has diagnosed Buckalew with mental health issues.

    Someone got paid.

  • Re:

    Quoth optiuum67:
    A psychiatrist has diagnosed Buckalew with mental health issues.

    Someone got paid.

    hahahahahaha

    • jonnie5 said...
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    • 30 Jun 2006, 17:24

    Re:

    Quoth KharBevNor:
    Little khar is always saluting Jonnie, if you know what I mean.





    *heads off to the graveyard for more skulls*


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  • Buckalew “has always felt extraordinarily out of place" and ... he tried to hang himself when he was a child.


    Well that explains it.

  • That WOULD make an awsome bong, but still it's a bit sick.

  • That WOULD make an awsome bong, but still it's a bit sick.

  • yeah id buy a skull bong but im way too fuckin moral to dig up my own.the chinese harvest organs from condemned prisoners why not skull bongs?

    its all about me....conveniently,thats what i care about -_-
  • also the teeth should chatter when you pop the carb

    its all about me....conveniently,thats what i care about -_-
  • Re:

    Quoth tostsalads:
    also the teeth should chatter when you pop the carb


    I want to say that's horrible, but I can't stop giggling long enough.

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  • Not like it matters for the dead guy...
    Shouldn't really make a difference for the widow either, I mean, whether or not her husband still has a head doesn't make him less dead. Pretty messed up that the kid could stomach cutting off the head of a corpse though. The next step would be killing someone, so he does really needs mental help.
    Kids these days... jeez...

    • said...
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    • 30 Jun 2006, 23:07

    Re:

    Quoth Neushaar:
    Shouldn't really make a difference for the widow either, I mean, whether or not her husband still has a head doesn't make him less dead.



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