LONDON (AP) — If existence imitates artwork, a vandal could also be haunted via The Ghost of Christmas But to Come for smashing a tombstone that marked the fictitious grave of Ebenezer Scrooge within the English geographical region.
Police in Shrewsbury are investigating how the grave marker, in position for 40 years after getting used as a film prop in “A Christmas Carol,” was once destroyed.
The 1984 movie, certainly one of dozens of diversifications of the Charles Dickens’ vintage, starred George C. Scott because the cold-hearted curmudgeon. After going to sleep on Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited via the ghosts of previous, provide and long run and proven the mistake of his techniques to transform a kinder, extra beneficiant particular person.
The longer term ghost displays Scrooge what’s going to transform of his existence if he does not exchange. He’s ultimately ended in a cemetery the place the ghost brushes snow from a headstone that finds his identify. Scrooge, distraught via all he is noticed, vows to show his existence round.
After filming, the stone was once stored in position at the grounds of St. Chad’s Church the place it had transform a vacationer appeal — in particular at Christmas.
West Mercia Police stated the stone was once vandalized someday between Thursday and Sunday. Pictures confirmed it damaged into a number of items.