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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:27 am
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My mother-in-law is feeble at age 90 and we discovered a week ago that two precious and sentimentally valuable pearl necklaces were missing from her jewelry box. My wife had a strong suspicion that it was one of two neices who stole them. My wife sent an obliquely worded e-mail to the family (she's really good at pointing fingers without seeming to point fingers), and the necklaces were returned anonymously.

The big issue here is that someone in my family would do such a thing as stealing an old lady's jewelry.

My understanding is that this is a widespread problem, and can be quite severe. It's really a form of looting.

What makes a person do something so reprehensible?


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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:36 am
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Greed! And lack of compassion for their fellow human beings or in this case family members! I have noticed in the past few years that more and more people have the "What about me?" mentality. People as a whole seem to be more concerned with what is in it for me, that what can I do to make life better for you?

It is sad. If we all starting thinking about others more, and ourselves less, this world would be a fantastic place to live! And it all starts with us.

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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:43 am
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Just understand, there will always be thieving type of people. But to steal from family? That's the worst kind of thieves. Good thing she got the stuff back.

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jeffo46 wrote:
It's called Greed and disrespect,and it's really sad when somebody does that to a member of their own family.


It seems to happen alot more than reported too. Most people don't want to bring the law into it when it's family I'm guessing. Just sickens me when a family member takes adavantage of their old family members.

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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:13 am
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RudyH wrote:
My mother-in-law is feeble at age 90 and we discovered a week ago that two precious and sentimentally valuable pearl necklaces were missing from her jewelry box. My wife had a strong suspicion that it was one of two neices who stole them. My wife sent an obliquely worded e-mail to the family (she's really good at pointing fingers without seeming to point fingers), and the necklaces were returned anonymously.

The big issue here is that someone in my family would do such a thing as stealing an old lady's jewelry.

My understanding is that this is a widespread problem, and can be quite severe. It's really a form of looting.

What makes a person do something so reprehensible?


Ok... here is a story to let you know that there are good people out there, too.

My great-grandfather had a ring that he ALWAYS wore... a big, solid white gold ring with a deep blue sapphire. I NEVER saw the man without that ring on his finger. He spent his last days in a nursing home, and when he passed away, the ring "disappeared". Nobody knew where it went, so we all figured it was lost or stolen.

Over 1 year after he passed away, we recieved a call from the nursing home. They were cleaning and found his ring had fallen behind the dresser in his room. They could have easily kept it, or sold it for a small fortune. They did the right thing and returned it to us.

There are good people out there... unfortunately it seems that they are becoming few and far between.

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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:01 am
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My experience has been.......that when stealing from family......it's usually a result of being dependent on drugs. (They need money to buy the stuff)

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Had a Aunt clean my Grandmother out of all her Family jewels. My Mom and Dad took care of Nanny and checked on her each day , went to visit every 2 or 3 days cleaned, sat with paid her bills just every thing
to be done for her. My Aunt would visit once a month never did much at all
then when Nanny was getting bad and my Parents had to make a decision on what shoud be done they talked to my Aunt and Uncle for there thoughts the following day they went to talk to Grandmother and while there she said my Aunt had come by the night before not long after Mom and Dad had spoke to them. Well they discoverd all the Family jewlls were gone and Nanny did not no what happened to them but they were seen the week before while cleaning. My Aunt new nothing about it an said Nanny must have given them all away. Well turns out two of my Aunts Daughters have been seen wearing my Grandmothers good jewels several times. We have very little to do with any of them. Some Relative can be leaches.

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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:58 am
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'Experienced some of it, multiple times, actually, in several flavours. It's likely one will if they live long enough and have a big enough family.

'Does not make it any less icky, though. Good on you getting stuff back; we have not to date and it's been a decade-plus.

And who will get our guitars...?


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