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To think there is a grave in my garden?

409 replies

IsItATomb · 09/07/2019 19:21

NC for this as the pics are outing.

Moved in to my house in April and it has what I thought is a really ugly raised bed in the garden. Now the summer has arrived I've realised it gets no sunshine on it at all so isn't a raised bed after all.

DD and I were pottering our there this afternoon and we came across this plaque on the raised bed.

WTF.

Is it a coincidence or is it a grave?!

To think there is a grave in my garden?
To think there is a grave in my garden?
OP posts:
Puzzledandpissedoff · 11/07/2019 22:17

Pinkyyy it's not a question of MN "doing something about Daily Mail lifts" ... HQ will understandably welcome them, because they offer publicity for the site

Tavannach · 11/07/2019 22:20

You might also want to consider a complaint to IPSO

IsItATomb · 11/07/2019 22:22

Thank you @Tavannach

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bebeboeuf · 11/07/2019 23:05

Absolute shits

Pinkyyy · 11/07/2019 23:27

@Puzzledandpissedoff I get that, but what's the point bringing publicity to the site if all of the users are too scared to post anything?

notapizzaeater · 11/07/2019 23:29

Hate that daily mail use the posts off here, seems tacky !

Puzzledandpissedoff · 11/07/2019 23:30

what's the point bringing publicity to the site if all of the users are too scared to post

Thing is, they know perfectly well there'll always be another poster along in a minute ... it's only if this ever changed that you'd see any "adjustments" to who else could use the info

Puzzledandpissedoff · 11/07/2019 23:33

Or as a very wise poster once said:

"If you discover a product that you don't have to pay for, you'll probably find you ARE the product"

Two4Tuesday · 11/07/2019 23:39

It's also being covered by The Sun, OP.

motherofcats81 · 11/07/2019 23:42

MN can't do anything. I hate it too but it's the risk you take when you publish anything online, on any social media site. This is a public forum and it is in the public domain. Same reason you can get done for libel for things you write on Twitter.

Legally, publishing it here is the same as publishing it in the Daily Mail, hence why they can lift it with attribution.

liverbird10 · 11/07/2019 23:54

Pet Sematary.
Biscuit x eleventy billion.

snitzelvoncrumb · 12/07/2019 00:35

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ArchieStar · 12/07/2019 00:54

Daily Fail you suck!!!!

Throughthenever · 12/07/2019 03:21

It is lazy journalism.

I personally didn't read the t and cs when signing up but does anyone know if mn states anywhere warning users that their posts, either starting topics or responses may be lifted and used by journalist or other similar websites.?

progestermoan · 12/07/2019 07:29

I might just start lifting daily mail articles and turn them into threads tbh

.....AIBU to think that anything and everything I eat or look at might give me cancer

......AIBU to think that the immigrants living next door made me have a migraine and some nightmares

.......AIBU to not be able to choose which I fancy more Boris or Nigel

Or whatever other nonsense they wrote about

feathermucker · 12/07/2019 07:54

Fuck off with your lazy 'journalism' Daily Mail.

RunDeBumBum · 12/07/2019 08:03

I know that if you post on a public forum you run the risk of it being picked up by the 'news'papers but it's so lazy of them.

Keep name changing people and lazy journalists should fuck off to the far side of fuck you lazy buggers.

It's pathetic that you get paid to lift your stories from Internet forums you should be ashamed by your laziness. Get out there and research your own stories and take your own pictures Hmm

JellyFromTheBlock · 12/07/2019 08:44

Any news yet OP??

MissRabbitNeedsAHoliday · 12/07/2019 08:46

Any news yet OP??

I would be very surprised if OP gives an update now, I wouldn't be feeding the daily mail with any more stories if it were me.

IsItATomb · 12/07/2019 09:02

Sorry guys I won't be posting anymore updates.

Other news papers have taken it too now and I think it's unfair on the lady who lived here before.
Grave or not that area was something to remember her baby by. To be honest if I knew that in the first place then I wouldn't have posted it, I thought if it was a grave it would be an adults because of the size of it!

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LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 12/07/2019 10:51

Can’t we start a new thread of lies totally plausible stories of what we have found in our back gardens as a decoy thread?

I found a whole wooly mammoth skeleton (I wish) in my back garden.

MoverOfPaper · 12/07/2019 11:00

I found a key in my back garden.

It seems to fit in the door of the DCs dollshouse. The one we found in the loft when we moved in. It’s so cute, looks just like our house.

Must go and feed the dog.

OhLookHeKickedTheBall · 12/07/2019 11:10

When we had our garage rebuilt a crushed up car chassis was discovered under it. And a wheel and other bits. Had the builders scratching their heads a bit, even though they said they'd seen plenty of random stuff buried before.

jimmyhill · 12/07/2019 11:11

Mumsnet is exactly as public as the Daily Mail

Let this be (yet another) lesson

Puzzledandpissedoff · 12/07/2019 11:43

does anyone know if mn states anywhere warning users that their posts, either starting topics or responses may be lifted and used by journalist or other similar websites?

The explanations of what's public and what's not are all there at the bottom of every page under "Terms" and "Privacy". Essentially it's really not HQ's fault if folk convince themselves the forum's some kind of private chat, when in fact it's anything but

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