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Town Clerk Helen Ball said the town is discussing what should be
done to fix or replace the stone that is “hugely popular” with
residents and visitors. This time of year, organized tours of
locations used in the movie visit the grounds of St. Chad’s
Church to see the marker.
“There’s not much to see other than broken bits of the
gravestone,” Ball told The Associated Press. “You can’t see that
it says Ebenezer Scrooge at the moment because it’s so damaged.
It’s hugely disrespectful.”
The film, one of dozens of adaptations of the Charles Dickens'
classic, starred George C. Scott as the cold-hearted curmudgeon.
After going to sleep on Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the
ghosts of past, present and future and shown the error of his
ways to become a kinder, more generous person.
The future ghost shows Scrooge what will become of his life if
he doesn't change. He’s eventually led to a cemetery where the
ghost brushes snow from a gravestone that reveals his name.
Scrooge, distraught by all he's seen, vows to turn his life
around.
West Mercia Police said the stone was vandalized sometime
between Thursday and Sunday. Photos showed it broken into
several pieces.
If the vandal is caught, Ball said she wouldn’t mind seeing
poetic justice served.
“If the ghosts of past, present and future would like to visit
(the vandals) in the middle of the night and drop them and break
them in pieces, I think that would be a perfect punishment,” she
said.
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