I blame these "goths" and their "heavy metal" music

March 2008:
Tunnelling badgers disturb family graves

Badgers have wrecked a church graveyard in Cheltenham, disturbing graves and digging up the dead...
"It broke my heart," Mrs Webb told the newspaper. "If it were kids vandalising these graves they'd be sent to prison."...
Rev David Eady, 64, said: "We sympathise with the families, but our hands are tied."

Riddled concurs. The courts have been mollycoddling these mustelids for too long. It is time to take a tough stand and clamp down on any bad behaviour. A short sharp shock is what they need to teach them a lesson. However, we do not wish to know about the Rev. Eady's fondness for bondage.

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April 2010:
The grave robbers of Sidmouth are unearthed: Family of badgers

Concerned locals thought tomb raiders had hit a seaside cemetery after graves there were completely excavated.But on closer inspection, they realised the culprits were not ghoulish visitors but a family of badgers who had set up home underneath three 100-year-old graves, unearthing the human remains.

Well, we told you so, but did anyone listen? We warned that this namby-pamby liberal approach to law-and-order just wouldn't work. A firm hand is the only thing that badgers understand.

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September 2010:
Badgers disturb human bones

Human bones scattered around an Old Colwyn graveyard have been blamed on burrowing badgers.
Residents living near the cemetery on Llanelian Road were shocked to discover human remains were visible above ground on Thursday evening, after a badger sett was discovered on the sloped edges of the site.

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October 2010:
Badgers digging up ancient English graves

Badgers, a protected species in England, are digging up graves in an ancient church burial ground dating back to the 1100s, the church's vicar says. The Rev. Simon Shouler of St. Remigius Church, Long Clawson, Leicestershire, says at least four graves have been disturbed with the animals digging up leg bones and a skull, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.

Perhaps now the authorities will stop trying to rehabilitate problem badgers and go back to the old-fashioned tried-and-true policies of discipline.
The idea that you could rehabilitate them by sending them on an archaeology training course was particularly misguided.

UPDATED with matching badger accessories.
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Update² (helping tigris).