Thursday, 14. May 2009
Topic: AUSTRIA - on May 14, 2009 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
Mourners want talking tombstones banned
ANGRY mourners have demanded the scrapping of high-tech talking tombstones where the dead can send messages from beyond the grave.
The headstones — fitted with screens and speakers — play recordings of the owners' lives when their loved ones come to pay their respects.
But spooked visitors have asked graveyard officials at Linz, Austria, to ban the gadgets.
