What is wrong with people?

[speckledhen]

I'm very sorry, honey. Lack of character is rampant, it seems. It doesn't change anything about your father or the way you felt about him. Hopefully, they'll brag about what they did to someone who will give them a look that says how reprehensible they are.

 

[rufus]

You have to wonder who is buying all of the scrap iron. Someone stole all of the covers off of the water meter boxes in our alley.

During the "Great Depression" (as opposed to our not so great depression), my father survived collecting scrap metal. He sold it to a nice Japanese fellow that shipped it to Japan.

At that time, my mother was married to a railroad track engineer. They lived in a box car and traveled all over the west. At night, she would watch to see from where the bats were flying. Then she would file mineral claims on the guano deposits. She never worked the claims, but sold them to a nice Japanese fellow who had the deposits mined out. The guano went to Japan.

Pretty soon, all that stuff came back at us. I can't help but wonder what the future holds for us.

 

[oldrooster]

friend's step dad died buried last monday his widow is getting scum bags calling her wanting her to take out loans and pre arrange her own funeral and such, so it's not just the dead they mess with it's also the living whom are still out of sorts from the recient deaths they screw with too.

 

[bakerjw]

I am a believer in karma. What goes around comes around.

 

[PaulaSB12]

We have a problem with this in the uk, they have even taken metal name plates from war memorials! A man's wheelchair from his house all sorts as someone said who would buy and melt down a metal plate of names of people who died in two world wars.

 

[herfrds]

oldrooster they harrased my grandmother after grandpa died. The realators were the worst!

When my best friend died my DH and hers along with several others moved a rock or better desription is boulder to her grave site.
It took 2 big tractors to move it. We all donated so much and had a granite marker made for it.

 

[NYboy]

I am so sorry . Several years ago the Nytimes ran a article on theft from cemeteries. It was becoming a big problem. Gardening had become very popular. Linestone Angels,urns,madonna, and lamb(baby grave) where being stolen. Where they ended up in antique shops sold as garden ornaments.

 

[oldrooster]

I am so sorry . Several years ago the Nytimes ran a article on theft from cemeteries. It was becoming a big problem. Gardening had become very popular. Linestone Angels,urns,madonna, and lamb(baby grave) where being stolen. Where they ended up in antique shops sold as garden ornaments.

what is so sad these things can be easily obtained from ligitamate sources so readily....

 

[KristyHall]

I am so sorry . Several years ago the Nytimes ran a article on theft from cemeteries. It was becoming a big problem. Gardening had become very popular. Linestone Angels,urns,madonna, and lamb(baby grave) where being stolen. Where they ended up in antique shops sold as garden ornaments.

Around here grave robbing of Native graves are pretty common. There is a general attitude that somehow it isn't grave robbing if it's from a native resting place.

There was a story from a professor of anthropology I remember clearly. She said a co worker was excavating a burial sight and this Native woman came running screaming at him in tears. It turns our he was digging up the fresh grave of her husband. This was in the 1990's. Some people have no respect for the dead. Especially if it is in the name of research. You see this sort of attitude more predominant when people are dealing with minority graves, Roma, Old slave graves, Native graves, etc.

Somehow it's not acceptable to dig up one person's great grandma, but it is OK to dig up someone Else's. You would be shocked the number of people I would run into who proudly display grave goods they have dug up, including human bones, pottery, jewelry, clothes, grave markers, tools, and what ever else they feel like.

 

[NYboy]

Kristy good point why is it ok if done in the name of Anthropology?