Who would steal a cross?

[longtimefirsttime]

The story:
http://www.indeonline.com/index.php?ID=10891&r=0&Category=
(If link doesn't match try Inde archives for 10/6)

[mrstigger1983]

Someone must have really had a good reason to go into a graveyard and still a cross off a priests grave. I would be afraid that God would strike me dead with a bolt of lightening. :dance:

[Dr Strangemind]

It was apparently stolen for the scrap metal. There have been thefts of markers from other area cemeteries as well. Veterans' memorials as well. I'm glad Fr. Gretchko notified local scrap dealers to be on the alert, though obviously somebody is buying the stolen material from the thieves.

Literally, nothing is sacred. :thumbsdown:

[Spize]

What a loser.

[chap]

Real Scum!

[RAPTOR]

The thought of someone actually doing this is enough to make me sick. Knowing that someone got away with this is enough for me to pray for their soul.
However i really dont think this person has a soul.

[MUCSteelers5xSuperChamp]

Anybody who can steal a cross really needs some serious help. I mean, come on.

Whoever did that needs this to happen to them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ryqBdJcQA

[Kamd50]

It is very disturbing to think that someone victimized a cemetery in this manner. To me, this is sacred ground and it really saddens me that someone could be so callous and disrespectful to those who lie in their final resting place. When we were children, we were taught to not even walk on someone's gravesite, let alone to ever steal from one. Gosh, I remember looking up at that cross as a little girl and marveling at it and how the sight of it moved me somehow. I used to imagine what it must have been like for Jesus to actually being hung on it at the time.

I truely hope that someone knows something and turns these people in. That is something that is just irreplaceable. I can't imagine being able to profit from it without the buyer realizing that it has been stolen. What a shame.

[GrowlingTiger87]

Classless, heartless, shameless, and downright wrong. It's a sick world we live in.

[MUCSteelers5xSuperChamp]

It is very disturbing to think that someone victimized a cemetery in this manner. To me, this is sacred ground and it really saddens me that someone could be so callous and disrespectful to those who lie in their final resting place. When we were children, we were taught to not even walk on someone's gravesite, let alone to ever steal from one. Gosh, I remember looking up at that cross as a little girl and marveling at it and how the sight of it moved me somehow. I used to imagine what it must have been like for Jesus to actually being hung on it at the time.

I truely hope that someone knows something and turns these people in. That is something that is just irreplaceable. I can't imagine being able to profit from it without the buyer realizing that it has been stolen. What a shame.

Kamd50,

I recall back in a Canton cemetery, someone tore off a cross and broke it into pieces. My dad once told me that if he ever saw someone desecrating a grave, he would have beat the offending person's rear end.

Now I have to be careful with how I go with this because I don't want to offend anyone (yourself included) but I mean at this juncture...this is more of a deliberate juvenile prank, if ever. That's just my opinion.

[obie7661]

It's obviously repugnant that some nincompoop(s) would do something like this.

But I believe it was stolen for scrap value. A lot of that going on now.

Probably too damn lazy to work for a living.

[PurpleArmy]

You have to wonder why scrap metal buyers would even give someone money for something that obviously came from a cemetary.

They have to know that it's more than likely stolen. :rolleyes:

[obie7661]

You have to wonder why scrap metal buyers would even give someone money for something that obviously came from a cemetary.

They have to know that it's more than likely stolen. :rolleyes:

Maybe they cut it up in smaller pieces, or maybe they took it to an unscrupulous scrap dealer.

[Harper]

When I coached with John Moronto at Miramar, they stole one of the goal posts. imagine moving and taking that thing in.

[MR EMPTY PANTS]

stealing is wrong period!!!! really has no bearing if it`s a cross or a stick of gum, although to actually steal a cross you really have to be mentally deranged or an atheist.

i`d hate to be in that person`s shoes when the end comes.

[obie7661]

stealing is wrong period!!!! really has no bearing if it`s a cross or a stick of gum, although to actually steal a cross you really have to be mentally deranged or an atheist.

i`d hate to be in that person`s shoes when the end comes.

Your statement about an atheist reminds me of an old joke, which goes:

Do you know what's written on an atheist's tombstone?

All dressed up and nowhere to go.

[Grandma Turtle]

Maybe they cut it up in smaller pieces, or maybe they took it to an unscrupulous scrap dealer.

Yep.

Probably someone raising money to support their drug habit. I doubt if those people think about it too deeply.

Probably never crossed their minds of the meaning of the cross. It was just a way of surviving another weekend with plenty of drugs.

Very sad.

These people need to get a job to support their drug habits like the rest of us!!! :cylon:

[longtimefirsttime]

There are a lot of vacant houses that are being broken into for the copper piping. There are people who will steal anything for a buck. I guess nothing is off limits anymore.

[obie7661]

There are a lot of vacant houses that are being broken into for the copper piping. There are people who will steal anything for a buck. I guess nothing is off limits anymore.

And ... it might be a good idea to let your neighbors know that you haven't hired anyone to take the aluminum siding off your house while you're on vacation. :grinning:

[PurpleArmy]

There are a lot of vacant houses that are being broken into for the copper piping. There are people who will steal anything for a buck. I guess nothing is off limits anymore.That's true. My husband was doing remodeling on a house a few weeks ago and someone broke into it after he left and stole all the brand new copper plumbing that the owner had just installed in it.

However, the owner did something pretty funny after that: he installed more new copper plumbing, but had it wrapped completely in razor wire! I thought that was a pretty good idea. :jestera:

[EXECRATED]

May God have mercy on their soul.