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Originally posted by Phlynx
On your second picture you could have gotten on top of the shed, ran and jumped the fence! Not that you should, but you could have.
Originally posted by questioningall
Originally posted by Phlynx
On your second picture you could have gotten on top of the shed, ran and jumped the fence! Not that you should, but you could have.
Now that is Funny!! I was investigating, not looking to get arrested!
I did enjoy your post! I am still smiling from it.
Originally posted by hotrodturbo7
The plastic tubs are burial vaults made by Vantage products in Covington, GA. Apparently they leased the land to store them there.
Vantage products vaults
Though what boggles my mind is that today's corporate culture is wrapped up in "Just in Time" manufacturing, why whould they make all these and stockpile them unless they are bought and paid for? It doesn't make sense to have all that money wrapped up in product, sitting in a field waiting unless someone already paid for them.
Madison vault and internet mystery ‘solved’
By Wendell Dawson, Editor, AVOC, Inc
As often as I go online and real local and regional news, a local ‘story’ slipped up on me. I only became aware of the “Madison GA Vault Mystery” when I read the August 11, 2008, issue of the Morgan County Citizen.
The article dealt with the field storage of 10,000’s of burial vault liners on Industrial Drive (Lions Club Drive) in south Madison. It mentioned how the matter had become a national issue with many conspiracy theories about FEMA, CIA and the Federal Government. Google ‘Madison Georgia’ and the search brings up numerous links to many sites and articles about the large number of vaults along with all kinds of speculation. Was a major disaster or disease outbreak expected?
It turns out the truth was more simple. Many folks buy pre-need funeral services in this nation. The vaults are constructed at a Covington Factory (Vantage Products) and stored on a leased field at Madison.
Many area residents, like me, probably missed this ongoing mystery and speculation until it was recently explained by the company manufacturing the vaults.
This quantity of burial vaults, Vantage’s Standard Air Seal model in black, also the least expensive model and the most in-demand, was made to cater to what Lacey calls the funeral industry’s “pre-need.” This “pre-need” occurs when people make arrangements for their funeral before they actually pass away, so that the family doesn’t have to go through the perceived stress of making the arrangements. When these arrangements are made, the products are paid for; obviously, though, they are not yet needed.
Contrary to the beliefs of the theorists, then, the burial vaults aren’t owned by the government, or FEMA. Instead, they’re owned by individuals, or not yet sold.
So, Vantage stores the product until the person dies, and the product is needed.
Further, pallets of the burial vaults are moved truckloads at a time, as there is space for a palate at the
“They’re not owned by any one individual, company or the government,” Lacey said.
Further, Vantage leases the land, located at 1200 Madison Industrial Boulevard, from Conyers Welding & Supply and has for four to five years, a fact confirmed by Conyers Welding & Supply. Conyers Welding & Supply took over the lease when the property was purchased from Robert Usury in 2000. Usury purchased the property in 1989, according to information provided by the Morgan County Tax Assessor’s Office and the Morgan County Online Public Property Portal.
The answer as to why the vaults are being stored in Madison? To put it simply, the Covington-based manufacturer got a good deal close to home.
“It was the most cost-effective place,” Lacey said.