Thieves have been stealing bronze vases attached to memorial markers from Maple Grove Cemetery to sell them as scrap.
The problem at the Kew Gardens resting place started a little more than five years ago, as first reported by the New York Post. About 500 vases have been stolen so far, according to Bonnie Dixon, general manager at the cemetery.
“It’s just so disturbing,” Dixon said. “I can’t imagine how anybody would do that but people do and it's sad.”
The vases, which are engraved with the letters "MG" for Maple Grove, cost about $250 each and weigh about 2.5 pounds, Dixon said.
A pound of bronze sells for about $1.20 to $1.50, according to local scrap metal buyers.
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There is a special place in the afterlife for these people...
Electrify or razor wire the fencing.
Maybe the foundry that cast them is responsible. Got to reorder new ones and from who?
Cremation is the answer. Why make a funeral director and cemetery rich? Your ashes can travel with your family, wherever they move.
"Perpetual care" really IS NOT perpetual care anyway. LOL! Their "eternal care" costs a lot more!
500 vases at $250 each is $125,000. Why haven't they hired a rent-a-cop security patrol that would cost them much less than that?
nothing new here - they've been doing this for years - Satchmo's grave in Flushing used to have a bronze trumpet - after replacing it several times - they gave up.
Yes, there will be pay-back. There is karma. There is justice. Eventually.
What about motion sensors and lazar beams? What about bright lights after the motion sensors? What about high powered cameras? Certainly they could catch a few with photos and bright lights. And people are right. Why hasn't cemetery management thought of a way to keep these desecrators out? We all know there is karma but I/we don't want to wait until the next lifetime. Karma should happen NOW in jail.
Back in the day,the local pct would have plain clothes cops sit inside until someone was collared. Even if they didn't do time,the beating they got an the knowing that cops might be in there stopped the crimes. But now we don't have the manpower and pols like oBama and deblah zeo have deballed the police. "The people have spoken,and now they must be punished". Happy now??
Tomb robbing has been a tradition for thousands of years. It is called "archeology".
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