Pictured: 'horrible' woman steals flowers from boy's grave

Telegraph ^ | 12-8-11

[Hiddigeigei]

The more I know about people, the more I love my dog.

When I was a little kid, I has a Doberman that would steal flowers and wreaths from the graveyard across the street and pile them up on our front porch. Dad had taught him to fetch the morning paper from under the bushes and bring it back to the house. He learned his chore too well and would bring the neighbors’ papers also. Quite an embarrassment for our family.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

The more I know about people, the more I love my dog.

Understandably.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

lol

[READINABLUESTATE]

“Nearly everything I’ve ever put at my daughter’s grave site (wind chimes, pinwheels, flowers, etc) usually gets swiped within a week. It’s incredibly sad.”

Worth checking into is the possibility that the grounds keeper may be removing them. I have known several people who have had the job and they don’t like anything that they have to mow around or move.

[magslinger]

Worth checking into is the possibility that the grounds keeper may be removing them. I have known several people who have had the job and they don’t like anything that they have to mow around or move.

Check the cemetery rules. The groundskeeper may be well within his rights to do so. It might take him just a few seconds extra, but multiply that by the number of graves and it can add up to a lot of extra man-hours that need to be paid.

[TASMANIANRED]

Public humiliation needs to be revived.

[Sans-Culotte]

No, it’s not right but she’s probably a poor woman who doesn’t have the money to place on her relative’s grave. The road is right there so she parks her car or has walked up the drive, sneaks some pretty flowers at the boy’s abundantly flowered site thinking no one would notice a few missing and walks on down the row to what is probably her recently deceased husband’s grave. Do a few fake flowers really constitute wasting tax dollars to get the cops involved? The relatives should just talk to her and find out her story.

Or, she's just...a thief. To a thief, the opportunity to steal is just that-an opportunity. The family sees it as desecrating the memory of a loved one. A thief sees it as "a great place to get free flowers".

I do not know why some people think some thieves are more honorable than others, and are aghast the someone would actually steal from a grave. Why do they break into people's cars and steal their Christmas packages? Why do they steal some disabled vet's wheelchair? Because they're THIEVES.

I seriously doubt she's stealing flowers for someone else's grave. If so, she is desecrating the grave of her loved one. "Here, sweetheart; I just stole ya some flowers from some schmuck's grave".