I vote for Vampire Trap. Cheers Mike
On Nov 28, 2011, at 6:25 PM, Bob W wrote: >> I considered one of my photos of this for the upcoming PUG. It's in a >> rather out-of-the-way graveyard on the West Coast that we had a quick >> look at last weekend. >> >> I can't figure out what it is or what it was used for. Given its shape >> and surroundings I assume it has something to do with burials. I seem >> to remember that the rod sticking downwards protrudes below the base >> (you can just see it in the centre of the near side). >> >> http://www.multi.net.nz/cemetery-thing/ >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Cheers, >> Dave > > It's a vampire trap. Freshly-buried corpse, vampire steps on mound of earth, > buried pressure plate activates spring. Whop! Big metal coffin-shaped trap > catches vampire. > > B > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
