Vermonter.com

It’s that most wonderful time of year in Vermont…mud season. Not much anything that anyone can do about it except to wait for the ground to dry up enough for the towns to grade the road. So until then, hold onto your hubcaps!

In other news, lots of strange and nefarious things going on in Vermont these days:

A Morrisville teenager Monday pleaded guilty to grave-robbing and stealing the head of a corpse. Police say Nickolas Buckalew,17, broke into a tomb at the Morrisville Cemetery in April 2005, removed the head of the entombed corpse, and brought the skull to his home. Buckalew reportedly told friends he wanted to the use the skull as a marijuana bong.

A Burlington man has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage man in a parking lot less than one block off Church Street early Saturday morning. Police say the 135-pound teen told them he was trying to find his way back to a friend’s home in the city after visiting with a UVM female student most of the night on campus. He reportedly asked the 300-pound Campbell, whom he claims to have never met before, for directions. In response Campbell allegedly asked him if he wanted to have sex. When the teen refused, Campbell allegedly pushed the teen into the parking lot, forced him to the ground, lay on top of him, pulled off the teen’s shirt and pants during the struggle, sexually assaulted the teen, and fled, according to the victim’s account to the police.

All this after the controversial Judge Cashman ruling and last year’s Northeast Kingdom incident of a young man brutally raping and torturing a dog. Plus, a recent news item that Vermont has run out of room in the prisons and has to ship offenders out of state. Time to break out the tar and feathers!