Thieves will steal anything. Brass urns. Name Markers. Dig up bodies looking for jewelry.

There is a special place in hell for those who steal flowers from a grave.

"Egyptian advisors are telling Pharaohs to build more inconspicuous monuments for their final resting place because the grander ones will get broken into and looted for the expensive items. This is why we can't have nice things, Egypt "

skinink: "Egyptian advisors are telling Pharaohs to build more inconspicuous monuments for their final resting place because the grander ones will get broken into and looted for the expensive items. This is why we can't have nice things, Egypt "

Who cares. The dead don't give a fark about flowers.

"Hmm? Gran nub rana fid SHARON!"

This reads like a desperate english paper - about midway, it's ad nauseam.

My dad says he's putting in his will that he wants an eternal subsription to DirectTV with the NFL package and an appropriate sized TV in his coffin for when he's burried.

Meanwhile, the bottles of saké at my local cemetery go unmolested. Even by me.

aagrajag: Meanwhile, the bottles of saké at my local cemetery go unmolested. Even by me.

That's genius! Everyone is leery of food left outdoors.

Do_wacka_Do: There is a special place in hell for those who steal flowers from a grave.

They've been doing it for thousands of years. Honestly, the dead don't care. They're dead, and doing whatever you expect from the afterlife.

Plus they ALL die in a few days regardless, unless they're fake, then they just oxidize and look tacky.

/Can't see silk flowers without thinking Vonnegut.

LordOfThePings:

Done in one. That's immediately what I thought of!

There was a guy in a van who on Memorial Day weekend went to the cemetery, stole a bunch of flowers then parked his van on a corner a few blocks from the cemetery and started selling them. His wife was there with him.

I wish some survivor had pulled over, grabbed the woman and beat the man to death with her.

LouDobbsAwaaaay: So what exactly does someone do with a bunch of expensive, stolen graveyard-flowers? Do you somehow sell them to someone else? Or do you just put them in a vase until they die in a few days? I don't really see the point of that exercise.

I trade them for BJ's from subby's mom.

gaslight: What kind of a cheap villain steals flowers from a grave?

And then what do you do with them? Sell them on the used flowers black market? WTF?

CatherineM: ...because stealing something from a dead person who is, you know, dead, is somehow worse than stealing from someone who is alive? I don't get it.

Because stealing from a dead person is just as bad as stealing from a live person because stealing is bad, shiatty, and rightly gets you shot in some states. It doesn't matter who is stolen from.

Better yet, dont spend on any flowers. Your loved one would no doubt prefer that you keep your money. Flowers dont do any good for a dead person.

GBB: My dad says he's putting in his will that he wants an eternal subsription to DirectTV with the NFL package and an appropriate sized TV in his coffin for when he's burried.

What does he consider an appropriate size?

My folks are buried at the Riverside National Cemetery.

The winds really do go howling through in the afternoon. But that isn't the official problem.

The groundskeepers use huge pieces of equipment to maintain the cemetery, which looks like a golf course. When people put teddy bears, Christmas trees, and so on around the graves their already tough job gets that much tougher.

In addition to the winds, people take offerings from one grave and move them to their own family graves, reasoning, I suspect, that those dead people won't care. Obviously they never think it through and realize that their deceased family/friend won't care, either.

And there really are idiots who think it's ok to steal, no matter where or from whom.

I can see it just fine thanks.

Its damned sad we have so little respect for our dead these days.

grimlock1972: Its damned sad we have so little respect for our dead these days.

I'd prefer respect for the living, but that's long since been out of the question.

They're dead, it's not like they're gonna biatch you out for not spending more on the arrangement.

By me, it's the deer that eat them.

So who want to go down to the cemetery and punch some deer in the nose for being so heartless?

Do_wacka_Do: There is a special place in hell for those who steal flowers from a grave.

Why do you hate the freedom necessary to make a profit in the booming botanical aftermarket?

/47% of flowers toil not, neither do they spin.

kiwimoogle84: As someone who lost jewelry from the inside of my "secure" mausoleum vault niche...

Yeah. Stolen by an employee because they're the only ones with the right shaped keys there. I was so mad and hurt. I couldn't even prove it because I didn't know when it had happened (within a two week period) so they couldn't pin down who it was. I had the ashes removed the following week.

Disgusting.

How did you lose jewelry if it was interred with a dead relative?

And how did you find this out? "Open the urn, I want to see Mama's brooch?"

I just figure if you're prone for some obscure reason to bury or wall up jewelry with the dead in either meat or ash form, that's it. It's gone. And it's not "yours".

I literally (yes, literally) just got back from a walk through our local cemetery. Not a normal occurance,but that's where fate took us today. Anyway there were graves with coins on top (one with about $3 worth), toys on a baby's grave, stone hearts, keychains, you name it. But the curator had gathered up a bunch of the older flowers and containers, put them in a pile for disposal I presume. There were lots of them, many in very good condition.

Thou shalt not steal. That's all the farther we need to go. Just don't take what isn't yours.

Someone stole the Buddha statue out of my garden. Talk about bad karma.

If you put flowers there, it's for YOUR benefit. Once you've placed your flowers, you have received your benefit. Thus, what happens to the flowers after that is irrelevant. The idea that you can place flowers in a public place and demand those flowers have the destiny that you have chosen is laughable.

Konfetka: LordOfThePings:

Done in one. That's immediately what I thought of!

Uh, you might want to continue scrolling to skinink's post.

Or do not leave flowers. I am pretty sure that my dead relatives are not aware of any flowers left at their graves. I am pretty sure yours will not notice, either.

Mock26: Or do not leave flowers. I am pretty sure that my dead relatives are not aware of any flowers left at their graves. I am pretty sure yours will not notice, either.

That presumes the point of leaving flowers is actually for the dead.