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Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton
First time accepted submitter Rebecka Schumann writes "Ontario couple Ken Campbell and Nicole Sauve said a recent fence installation led them to discover what is being labeled a historical find. Sauve, who said the duo originally believed the skeleton to be from bones of an animal, called the Ontario Provincial Police to investigate; Forensic Anthropologist Michael Spence confirmed the bones were that of an aboriginal woman who died at age 24 between the late 1500s to the early 1600s. In spite of reporting their find and Spence's evaluation, Suave and Campbell were told they were required to hire an archeologist to assess their property at their own expense under Ontario's Funeral, Burial and Cremation Services Act. The act, which requires evaluation for all properties found to house human remains, has the Canadian couple stuck with a big bill."
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I sometimes get annoyed when people bitch about articles being offtopic for Slashdot, but I have to agree in this case. This isn't big news, and it's not tech. Why is this here?
Wait, I know why it is here. It got voted up. Well, you can thank your fellow readers.
...what is this, the telegraph? reddit? Not news, not for nerds, definitely doesn't matter. All the headline is missing is a punctuation mark, and a more sensationalized headline, and we could call it /r/circlejerk
I guess there's the science aspect of archaeology in there, and there are some archaeology nerds out there.
Like an A/C responded below, I usually get annoyed when people whine about Article X being posted on slashdot. Especially when there's obviously a science-angle or fuel for a techie debate within the contents.
But I have to admit... this one is kind of pushing it. It's more of like a CNN or Local-News blurb to fill in 3 minutes of air time.