Thieves Stealing Metal For Money At Cemeteries

[The Straight Story]

Thieves Stealing Metal For Money At Cemeteries

MARION, Ohio — The Marion County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday that it has some leads after vases were stolen from a memorial garden and a nearby cemetery.

Over 60 vases were removed from Chapel Heights Memorial Garden, 10TV's Tino Ramos reported.

Sharon Craft's 9-month-old daughter is buried in the cemetery. Now Craft is faced with a grave marker that was disturbed and the vases stolen from her daughter's gravesite.

"They took a part of me," Craft said. "She was a part of me."

Holes are now where the vases were pulled, Ramos reported.

Deputies said that the vandals were likely selling their metal once they got their hands on it.

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2008/04/01/vases_stolen.html?sid=102

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. In Germany, 1933 started off like that.

hyperinflation was getting so bad, (and their government kept printing money to prop up big business and government contracts) that people were ripping off cemetaries, going into abandoned houses, ripping out fixtures, and using them in lieu of currency. Women, and daughters started something else. They would sell themselves and their young daughters to foreign tourists for threesomes in exchange for meals and hard currency.

My grandfather told me stories. He traveled repeatedly through Germany during the worst of it.

Cemetaries, empty buildings, rampant theft, people just walking away from houses. Damn. WE have so much to thank Bush for.

[backscatter712]

2. Scrap metal theft - one of the bellweathers of a fucked up economy.

Watch for it - this is just one of the instances.

You'll see aluminum siding, copper plumbing and wiring stolen from houses. Thieves are using Sawz-Alls to cut the catalytic converters from cars, for their platinum and rhodium. More cars will be gutted and up on blocks. Homes, businesses, public utilities will all be ravaged by scavengers.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. they have turned us into a potential 3d world economy.

[The Straight Story]

4. Saw copper being stolen from my neighbor's house one day last year

back in Ohio. Pat had recently passed on and as I was outside having a smoke I saw two guys pull up and head out back. Saw em stealing cable wire from the pole to the house and called the cops.

Cops told me the thieves watch for obits, especially where it appears the person lived alone (ie, preceded in death by spouse is listed).