Thief Returns Child's Cremated Remains

ClickonDetroit ^ | January 11, 2007 | AP

[ShadowDancer]

Thief Returns Child's Cremated Remains

Burglar Stole Valuables, Boy's Ashes

POSTED: 6:52 am EST January 11, 2007

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- Eve and Steven Greene made a simple plea to the burglar who broke into their house: Keep the valuables. Return the cremated remains of their 4-year-old son.

"Just drop it off somewhere with a note on it," Steven Greene said. "And that'll be that."

It worked.

Someone left the urn containing the ashes of 4-year-old Zachary Greene at the end of the Greenes' driveway Wednesday morning, two days after it was taken in a burglary.

Police said a burglar broke into the home, snacked on Cheerios and tracked mud all over the house as he filled pillowcases with about $10,000 worth of valuables -- and Zachary's ashes.

Zachary died of cancer in 2005. His parents kept the urn above their fireplace next to a Play Doh fire truck Zachary made before he died.

[Minuteman23]

A thief with a heart. A nice oxymoron.

[Minuteman23]

Was he kind enough to put his return address on the package, so that your sister could send a thank you note (you know, one that's wrapped in blue)?

ROTFLMAO!

[Tailback]

When I was a garbage man in Portland, I found a woman's wallet which had her drivers license, credit cards, address book, and personal pictures. I called a couple of the numbers from her address book and finally got in touch with her. She came and picked up her stuff and gave me $40 for my trouble. That was nice because it was Christmas time and I used the money to buy my (then) girlfriend a $250 gore-tex jacket. That girlfriend has been my wife for almost 9 years now. It's all about the Karma.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

>>The thief had taken the time to mail the package to the address on her drivers license.

Maybe not. I had almost the exact same thing happen to me a while back (except my wallet likely fell out of my bag and was not actually stolen). The postman who delivered the package told me that someone probably found the wallet and dropped it off at the nearest post office.

Actually, she knows exactly when it was stolen. Pretty slick operation. The thieves were two people working together. She was waiting for a city bus with several other people. When the bus arrived, one of them made sure to get in front of her while the other was behind her. They planned it so that when she was standing on the steps, the front guy caused a hold up at the top by complaining to the driver that all he had was a twenty. Naturally, a bus driver is not going to break a twenty. The stall allowed enough time and opportunity for the guy behind her to get wallet out of her bag. The front guy then gets off the bus, the back guy never gets on the bus, and my sister realized what had happened only after the bus had started down the road.

[Lx]

When I was a garbage man in Portland, I found a woman's wallet which had her drivers license, credit cards, address book, and personal pictures. I called a couple of the numbers from her address book and finally got in touch with her. She came and picked up her stuff and gave me $40 for my trouble. That was nice because it was Christmas time and I used the money to buy my (then) girlfriend a $250 gore-tex jacket. That girlfriend has been my wife for almost 9 years now. It's all about the Karma.

There's a joke in there somewhere...

[Ditter]

The story of your sisters experience just reminded me of something. As I pulled into a convenience store I saw something fall off of a car just exiting the parking lot. When I got out of my car I walked over and picked the object up and discovered it was a wallet. When I got home I looked inside and found a phone number and called. A few days later a woman came to my house to pick up the wallet. She quickly looked inside and demanded to know where the $100. dollar bill that she had hidden inside. I did not take ANYTHING out of her wallet so if there had been $100. in there it would STILL have been in there, because no one had touched the wallet but me. I was so angry at her accusation that I told her to get off my $%^&*( 'n porch. From that little incident I realized the truth that no good deed goes unpunished. $%^&*(# b*tch!

[Othniel]

I found a cellphone in the street. Scrolled through the directory, found a name that popped up a bunch, and called it, and got a woman on the line. Her husband had lost the phone, and was very glad to hear from me, since all her husband's contacts were on it. Turned out hubby was a chef at a very upscale restaurant, and I got a gift card for returning the phone. Went out w/ Mrs. Othniel and had a great dinner. The bill was 50 cents shy of what the card was.

[decimon]

Me three.

Me four. On John Street in Manhattan. Still had the money in it so she must have just dropped it. She worked a block away and was calling me a saint when I returned it to her. I'm not quite a saint. :-)

[HungarianGypsy]

But, a while later I found a full diaper bag. The owner gave me $75 for returning it. (I tried to not accept it)

Almost makes up for the doofus who stole my son's diaper bag. I was upset about the money in it being stolen, but would have lived with that if they had left everything else. My son's favorite blue bunny that his brother won for him was in it.

[cyclotic]

The bag we found was chok-full of stuff. We traced the owner through a prescription. Her husband called and told us that she was furious with herself. He said that she was a NASA scientist and was not used to making mistakes.

[sasha123]

I'm so glad he returned the urn.

I was just reading that someone had broken into a home and stole all the videos that a mother left to her son before she died. I am praying that they are returned as well.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243266,00.html