We cannot even fathom an actual person doing this, but here we are, laying our foreheads on our keyboards, contemplating the unending, petty depravity of our fellow Americans.

Photo Courtesy of the Washington Post.

Photo Courtesy of the Washington Post.

Kevin Maynard, a former worker at a veterans cemetery in Rhode Island, swiped 150 headstones belonging to fallen servicemen and laid them facedown on the ground like common bricks in order to pave a makeshift carport.

When investigators arrived at the scene, they found Maynard’s truck parked on top of the stones while many others lay strewn about the yard.

When a veteran’s headstone becomes worn or damaged, it is respectfully disposed of and replaced by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Many of the headstones in Maynard’s driveway, however, were completely intact. He has been taking them since 2009, smuggling them out a few at a time to avoid suspicion. This may have worked had Maynard not bragged about it to his coworkers.

Maynard was arraigned on Monday and will be sentenced later this summer for one count of theft of government property under a plea agreement.