There was an item on our local news yesterday

[The Genealogist]

3. People do some disgusting things

Stealing metal from a tombstone is just wrong to me, on a fundamental level. I wonder how many people do it out of meanness, how many do it just to enrich themselves, and how many do it because it means they get to eat a meal they could not have afforded otherwise. Considering there are cemeteries of all sizes in all kinds of environments, rural and urban, I wonder how many graves have been desecrated in this fashion that relatives will not discover for years. Most of my immediate family have plain old granite or other rock stones. Most of them are also a long way and I cannot afford to even travel to see if damages has been done.