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Across the Fence:  Modern Day Grave Robbers....  |
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Fiddlehead Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
4562 Posts
Diane
Waupaca
WI
USA
4562 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 04:32:09 AM
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I am just so upset. On Father's Day, I placed a black cast iron urn with some ferns in it, on my Dad's grave stone. I was so happy to be able to drive by (it's on my way to the dog park) and see it. Yesterday, I take Molly to the dog park and guess what? It's gone. I just can't believe someone would steal from a cemetery. All the other graves have potted flowers and plants in various containers. Why did they steal mine? I am just sick about it. I think I will put an ad in the local paper and ask for it to be returned. I am almost afraid to put anything else there for fear of it too being taken.
Age only matters if you are wine or cheese.
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 04:58:55 AM
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Yes that happens often unfortunately :( I think it was a random act by some hooligans who have nothing "better" to do that hound graveyards and hurt people. SO sorry for you.
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
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Diane B Carter
True Blue Farmgirl
1270 Posts
Diane
Blasdell
N.Y.
USA
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Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 05:06:17 AM
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Unfortunally it happens a lot. Cemeterys are not usually watched by police or camera's. I would put it in the paper and on your local TV new's station. Some poor mom may have recieved it as a gift. The more it's put out there the better chanches of getting it found. I am so sorry this has happened to you.
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
dianebcarterhotmailcom.blogspot.com |
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3329 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13666 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13666 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 06:41:14 AM
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Diane, I am sorry that happened!! It probably feels like a "personal violation" on some level!!
Our house was burglarized twice while we lived in Phoenix and my car was broken into just recently while parked at the Phoenix airport .. . . it's an "icky" feeling.
Hopefully it will be retrieved and returned!!!
CJ
..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665
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vegetarian farmer
True Blue Farmgirl
249 Posts
Jane
Freedom
pa
USA
249 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 06:43:29 AM
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If you have any scrap yards in the area, give them a call. That is where all the stolen things from our grave yards end up. They used to take just the brass plates and urns, but times are tough and cast iron has a value too. Scrap theft is very big here. People go on vacation and come back to their copper pipes missing from the basement.
Jane
http://hardworkhomestead.blogspot.com/ |
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Calicogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
5216 Posts
Sharon
Bruce Crossing
Michigan
USA
5216 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 06:50:17 AM
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Diane,
I'm so sorry! I can't believe that people would stoop that low either. I hope you can get it back.
~Sharon
By His Grace, For His Glory
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Lessie Louise
True Blue Farmgirl
1406 Posts
Carol
PECULIAR
MO
USA
1406 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 07:42:30 AM
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Oh I am so sorry that happened. I don't know how those people live with themselves. Carol
Forget buns of steel, I'd rather have buns of cinnamon!
Don't out smart your common sense!!
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maggie14
True Blue Farmgirl
6784 Posts
Hannah
Washington
USA
6784 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 11:44:21 AM
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Diane, I am so sorry this happened to you. But like everybody said it does happen alot nowadays. It is very sad.
Hugs to you!
Channah
Farmgirl sister #1219
Just a small town country girl trying to live her dreams. :) |
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knittinchick
True Blue Farmgirl
1854 Posts
Megan
Wisconsin
1854 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 12:14:12 PM
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Diane, that's terrible. I don't think these grave robbers think, hey, this is somebody's deceased daughter, or son, or friend that we're stealing from.
God's Blessings,
Megan aka Loretta Rae
At heart, I am both a sassy city girl and a down-home country gal. |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 12:49:42 PM
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When my mother passed away, grave robbers actually unscrewed the brass letters on the marble slab and stole them. I call it "sick".
Sorry that happened to you.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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maggie14
True Blue Farmgirl
6784 Posts
Hannah
Washington
USA
6784 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 1:11:51 PM
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That is terrible Marly!! Some people go as far as stealing the nocking down the stones just for fun. It is sick. We always pray and hope that my baby sisters grave stone never gets stolen.
Hugs,
Channah
Farmgirl sister #1219
Just a small town country girl trying to live her dreams. :) |
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Mikki
True Blue Farmgirl
1510 Posts
Mikki
Austin
Indiana
USA
1510 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 11:02:39 PM
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I am so sorry this has happened to you. We have had problems with that around here. My Dad always takes my Mom a red rose every Friday and about 3 times they have disappeared. It's sad that someone could do something like that.
~~Blessings, Mikki Jo
"Courage is being scared to death... but saddling up anyway" ***John Wayne
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Mama Jewel
True Blue Farmgirl
435 Posts
Jewel
Sweet Peas Farmette,
Bend, OR
USA
435 Posts |
Posted - Jun 30 2010 : 06:36:54 AM
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Diane, that's awful. My heart just hurts reading about that & others who've been hurt. I'm sorry this happened to your Dad's gravesite.
MJ (Mama Jewel) Farm Girl Sister #1683 Living Simply & Naturally on our lil Sweet Peas Farmette
"Do Everything in Love." 1 Cor 14
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crafter
True Blue Farmgirl
2313 Posts
lori
Fort Atkinson
Wisconsin
USA
2313 Posts |
Posted - Jun 30 2010 : 1:08:13 PM
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Diane,
This breaks my heart, I can't understand how people can be so cruel. How can people have so little respect is being my small mind to comprehend.
I'm sorry this has happend!!
Lori |
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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
1534 Posts
Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 30 2010 : 2:21:20 PM
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I know how heartbreaking it can be. My friends daughter's baby died a few hours after it was born and they had an angel figurine on the top of her gravestone and someone actually stole the angel from the baby's grave. How heartless can people be???? You have my sympathies.
Blessings, Sheri
"Work is Love made visible" -Kahlil Gibran |
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
2199 Posts |
Posted - Jun 30 2010 : 2:30:15 PM
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We have 4 cemeterys in my area, they are all very old, several years ago they had someone sneaking in and digging up the old graves(late 1800's to early 1900's) to steal jewels and gold teeth. Also if anyone left anything of value on the grave site that was stolen also. Several old timers took turns guarding at night and they caught several people, unfortunatly, its a fine and maybe a short jail sentence. It is really sad that there are this many really sick people in this world...
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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maggie14
True Blue Farmgirl
6784 Posts
Hannah
Washington
USA
6784 Posts |
Posted - Jul 01 2010 : 10:07:40 AM
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That is sick Teresa.
Hugs,
Channah
Farmgirl sister #1219
Just a small town country girl trying to live her dreams. :) |
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knittinchick
True Blue Farmgirl
1854 Posts
Megan
Wisconsin
1854 Posts |
Posted - Jul 01 2010 : 10:55:28 AM
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All of these stories are sick and twisted. How sad.
God's Blessings,
Megan aka Loretta Rae
At heart, I am both a sassy city girl and a down-home country gal. |
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nana5
True Blue Farmgirl
312 Posts
Rebecca
Jackson
MI
USA
312 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2010 : 11:11:30 AM
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Dear Diane,
I am so sorry for the pain this has caused you. I hope it restores a bit of good faith in your fellow mankind just to know there are those who care about you.
Rebecca
Everyday is a new beginning. |
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Sarahpauline
True Blue Farmgirl
672 Posts
sarah
Ringgold
GA
USA
672 Posts |
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