Who steals from a grave !!!

[sadanddisheartened]

My Dad sadly passed away in July just 10 weeks after being told he had cancer. We are still trying to get a headstone sorted as they are so expensive but in the meantime we have been putting little trinkets round his plot to brighten it up. Nothing major, just like tiny gnomes and my son has painted stones, that kind of thing.
One of items was a snowglobe of his favourite football team, think it cost me around £10 which is quite a bit of cash for us.
Anyway, went up today to tidy up and plant a new flower and the snowglobe is missing. Checked all round and it is no where to be seen so assuming it has been stolen.
Who on earth would steal from a grave. I am so angry right now. I can't do much for my Dad anymore apart from buy silly little things like this and someone thinks that it is ok to steal it .

Same has happened from my goddaughters grave. A small festive figure that would have cost pennies. So heartbreaking for the family

Could it have been hit by a stray stone when the groundskeepers were mowing and broken?

anothernamejeeves It is so sad. I am actually amazed at how much if has affected me.

AlanThePig Nope. It was behind a little plastic fencing thing, you can actually see the little indent on the soil where is was sitting. Cause Dad was only buried a few weeks ago there is no grass yet to cut.

We purchased a similar item and it was broken by the groundsman's lawn mower :(...

I'd be hoping that as pp said, it had been broken and disposed off.
It's horrible that there are people who do steal from graves.
A cheap £1 fairy has completely disappeared from my Gf's grave. I'm hoping it was broken accidentally and put in the bin.

Same happened from a very close family member's grave. We'd planted it out with various bedding plants and in the centre was this beautiful flowering ornamental tree (very small).

Went back two weeks later and there was literally a hole in the middle where the flowering tree had been dug up and stolen and loads of the bedding plants had been taken as well. It was extremely upsetting. We let it grass over in the end because we couldn't face going through that again.

Are you rural? Similar happened with children's graves here but consensus is it's likely to have been animals?

So sorry for your loss OP. That so disrespectful. I'd be upset too. I planted a mini rose in the flower vase on my Dads grave as he loved his rose garden & it went missing 3 times. Guess where they were? In the Church rockery round the side. I complained to the Vicar who rang & bollocked the gardener while I was there. Some people have no respect & idea of the distress they cause a grieving relative. My Dad now has a mini rose planted permanently in the flower vase.

It was a fairly thick plastic globe and I would assume that if it had been damaged there would have been some kind of evidence, even the glitter stuck to a planter or something but to see nothing at all makes me believe it was stolen.

We're not rural as such but the graveyard is fairly big and is surrounded by forest parks but again I don't think an animal as the globe was surrounded with a little garden gnome, a fake lizard and some painted stones and nothing else was disturbed in any way.

Must be some low lives around for this to happen to so many people.

I think there are rules around what you can put on grave. Perhaps it was removed for that reason.

That’s horrible

I’m so sorry.

This happened at my dads grave several times. When we reported it, the people that run it said they had taken them as they have strict rules about what can be left. Speak to the owners of the graveyard.

I just looked up a random cemetery’s rules and they are quite extensive. It specifically mentions football memorabilia as not being allowed without prior approval.

I’d check next time you were there OP.

It is very tidy and neat. Don't think it was removed for braking rules as we also have a gnome with the same team on it, and a tiny little flag (about 2") hanging from a planter, plus my son had painted some rocks and pictures with the same team so surely they would have all been removed. The headstone a few plots down actually has the emblem of this team engraved into the headstone, and a little boy's grave across the row has a full surround of every possible item of football team items you can think of.

Wearywithteens
My DD used her pocket money to buy a cheap £1 fairy for her great grandad's grave. He would have been thrilled at the loving gesture.
I find your comment hurtful.

That is horrible...but it's not going to affect your dad, is it? your memories of him live on inside you, don't let what happens at the grave get to you, that isn't him.

I remember years ago our cemetery having a spate of teddies etc being taken from graves. Mainly babies graves.

The cemetery was a common short cut for local schools and the head teachers had special assemblies to talk about it. Whoever did it left all the things they'd taken in a bag by the cemetery gates with a note apologising. Was awful at the time, I knew some of the people affected by it. I can't see staff removing a snow globe tbh but I guess it could have rolled. You might be better off attaching things to garden stakes and pushing them down which is what we do for my mum's.

That would be taken away in our churchyard because of strict rules on what can be left on graves, but it sounds as if you have other things on the grave, too, which weren’t removed?

I would speak to whoever runs it, glass/ ceramic isn't usually allowed so it's possible they've removed it thinking the globe was glass not plastic.

We've had several items stolen from our Dd's grave. It's hard to imagine that somebody would actually steal from that part of the cemetery, when you can obviously see they are the graves of children.

I'm so sorry op. That does sound hurtful, and you're right to be upset.

However, I hope you can see that this wasn't a personal attack on you or your dad. It was probably an accident or some silly kids.

Teenage boys showing off to each other, that’s who, like those boys who trashed the model railway exhibition.

It happens a lot.
Often flowers are stolen from one grave and then put on another. Some people are pigs and will pinch anything.