In one corner, you have the various tombstones for loved ones at Washington Cemetery. In the other corner, you have the cemetery's 80 year old caretaker James Scott who just needed to go. Itomor Khaimov noticed the caretaker peeing in his grandmother's grave's vase at the Bensonhurst grave site. When Khaimov demanded, "What the f--- are you going?" Scott replied, "I'm urinating" and kept peeing! Khaimov spoke to the Post:
"I started to cry and scream, 'Do you realize this is my grandmother's grave?' " Khaimov recounted. "He said, 'I'm an old man, I can't hold it.' "
Scott told Khaimov to "get out of there" but there was no stopping the grandson.
As Khaimov confronted him, Scott swung at him with the rake, hitting him on the head and causing a mild concussion, according to police sources.
"He took a big swing like he was holding bat - he was really pissed off," said Khaimov. The young man went to nearby Maimonides Hospital where he was treated and released after the Nov. 1 incident. Then he called 911.
"This is supposed to be a calm place, a place for them to rest," said Khaimov.
Police arrested and charged Scott with second-degree assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon. But notice, no summons for the public peeing!
Khaimov claims that the cemetery tried to bribe him with a key and cleaning of his grandmother's grave if he didn't press charges, but Khaimov wanted to prove a point, saying, "It's really hurtful - my grandmother didn't deserve this." Maybe the cemetery needs to make sure their employees have adequate facilities. Can you imagine how many times this has been done before?
And Khaimov, who is 28, hasn't been back, because he's afraid Scott will attack him again.
Photograph by Ixtayul on Metroplus; a Metroplus commenter noted that back in the 1980s, kids would topple tombstones and the police instituted 24/7 helicopter patrols only after the Hasidic community complained
