Taking advantage of breaking in knowing the residents are away..recently Patriots player Rob Gronkowski’s home was burglarized; not sure if robbers knew it was his home, but if they did, they may have figured Gronk was off at the Super Bowl in Minneapolis.
Stealing from grieving relatives, in this case...
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When my Dad passed away I made sure someone was guarding the house during the funeral. Told them it meant as much to do that as to be there in the church. I said park your car in the driveway & thanked them afterward. Nothing unusual here.
Serves 'em right! Getting tired of the sandwich police ragging on my for putting the mustard on the bread instead of on the meat...
The punishment for this should be throwing the guilty party into a hole in the ground and shoveling dirt over him.
Seems I recall something similar, but not related to funerals. It had to do with people driving in to a televangelist’s special meetings. Men at the gates would get license numbers, and then pass them on to someone at the P.D. to get the home addresses. The families would be robbed during the service.
Not a new scam, happened to my mom and dad in 1957 when my brother died.
My grandmothers home was burglarized while we were at her funeral back in 1986.
I’d love to see the police in multiple jurisdictions set traps for thieves by publishing false obits.
Of course, the cure for this is to publish the obit AFTER the funeral - and you simply call (or have a friend call) those whom you’d like to attend the funeral. To me, the obit is about honoring the deceased for what they accomplished over their life, not to be an advertisement for the funeral.
Why I agree with Orin Porter Rockwell, “Nothing so vexes me as a thief above ground.” .