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Ashes Stolen From Porch !

aj1980 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:49:35 GMT

A Tennessee woman is devastated about losing her grandmother for a second time after her ashes were stolen by a porch pirate.

She was cremated, and her ashes were divided , between Jeff and his aunt, who lives in Ohio, and shipped to Jeff’s home in Memphis’ Midtown neighborhood.

Tracking information showed that the package containing the ashes was delivered on Dec. 4 — but when Jeff went outside to get it off his front porch, there was nothing there.

“We’ve had so many things stolen here. Everything from tables and chairs to a can of Raid. Someone is always coming up and grabbing whatever they can find,” he told the outlet.

Memphis is ranked the second worst city in the country for porch pirates,

Nationally, package thefts have led to losses of up to $6 billion nationwide, if the average package stolen was $50, according to Safewise. Over half of the packages stolen were from Amazon.

The family is now begging for whoever took the box to return it — no questions asked.

They are going to Install a camera.

Very SAD

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manny2 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:56:15 GMT

Whoever stole this box is going to be very disappointed and surprised at the contents.

Hopefully they will not dispose of it, but just put it somewhere in the hopes someone will reunite with the owner.

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Puzzle Piece — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:20:45 GMT

Sorry to read of such a thing. People today feel so entitled - even to be allowed to steal from others at their own selfish whim.

Maybe stonger laws with really strong punishment needs to be enacted. These things shouldn't happen,

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Boomernichols — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:30:19 GMT

@aj1980 Folks have been steaing flowers from the dead so it is no surprise they are now stealing THE DEAD. There is no punishment given for such vile acts so there is no deterrent.

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Goldengate8361 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:30:24 GMT

I would love to see the pirates' faces when they realize what they stole. Very sad story.

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meallen616 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:21:17 GMT

Very sad story, just awful!

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eadu4 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:29:56 GMT

@aj1980 Wow that is so incredibly sad and just disgusting. If I was having so much stolen, I would either have my packages held at the Post Office or local shipping office, get a storage locker to ship stuff to, or even put a lock box on my porch (fastened to the porch) to put my packages in. Something like human ashes you would think there would have been a signature upon delivery option but I guess not. Hopefully they will be returned but I doubt it. If they were in an urn, they will probably dump the ashes and try to pawn the urn. The level of depravity in today's world is just beyond disgusting.

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RespectLife — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:36:26 GMT

@eadu4 wrote:
@aj1980 Wow that is so incredibly sad and just disgusting. If I was having so much stolen, I would either have my packages held at the Post Office or local shipping office, get a storage locker to ship stuff to, or even put a lock box on my porch (fastened to the porch) to put my packages in. Something like human ashes you would think there would have been a signature upon delivery option but I guess not. Hopefully they will be returned but I doubt it. If they were in an urn, they will probably dump the ashes and try to pawn the urn. The level of depravity in today's world is just beyond disgusting.

My BIL was 'delivered' to us in NYS from TN and yes, we did have to sign for 'him'.

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haddon9 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:40:00 GMT

So very sad!

Hopefully those who took it would have the heart to return it but I'm afraid there s a good chance that the theives would just throw it away.

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faeriemoon — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:42:28 GMT

I had no idea you could ship ashes. Truthfully, the whole idea is a bad one. Even if the ashes hadn't been stolen from the porch, they could have just as easily been "misplaced" by the shipping company.

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Mz iMac — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:44:28 GMT

Call me a skeptic....I don't believe it. These type of stories always pop up during the holidays.

"We’ve had so many things stolen here. Everything from tables and chairs to a can of Raid. Someone is always coming up and grabbing whatever they can find,” he told the outlet."

They just now thought of this after all that went down previously?

"They are going to Install a camera."

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RespectLife — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:51:19 GMT

@faeriemoon wrote:
I had no idea you could ship ashes. Truthfully, the whole idea is a bad one. Even if the ashes hadn't been stolen from the porch, they could have just as easily been "misplaced" by the shipping company.

@faeriemoon

It was VERY expensive....forms to fill out, shipping paperwork, insurances, extra tracking...it seemed as if there were special regulations to do it.

We had to sign documents we would abide by NYS law, etc etc.

This was all handled by the crematory in TN. They seemed to know exactly what to do.

As next of kin (and only kin) we had no choice but to accept this. We could not travel to TN again just for a pick up. Believe me, it was not an ideal situation.

I feel so badly for this family to have lost something that was special to them.

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jackiejenny — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 21:14:57 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:
Call me a skeptic....I don't believe it. These type of stories always pop up during the holidays.

"We’ve had so many things stolen here. Everything from tables and chairs to a can of Raid. Someone is always coming up and grabbing whatever they can find,” he told the outlet."

They just now thought of this after all that went down previously?
"They are going to Install a camera."

Call me skeptic II...the story didn't ring true to me as I read it.

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DSD2 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:14:10 GMT

I'm at a loss as to what to say other than it is so, so sad.

My heart goes out to the family.

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Estellee — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:22:43 GMT

That is so sad, darn porch pirates

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threecees — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:32:38 GMT

This is so sad.

Rotten people steal anything and everything.

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reiki604 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:40:18 GMT

How do you feel about this @aj1980 ?

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BoopOMatic — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:26:35 GMT

@Boomernichols wrote:
@aj1980 Folks have been steaing flowers from the dead so it is no surprise they are now stealing THE DEAD. There is no punishment given for such vile acts so there is no deterrent.

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Good point.

It's a shame people can't decorate their loved one's graves without worrying about everything being stolen.

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BoopOMatic — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:29:03 GMT

@eadu4 wrote:
@aj1980 Wow that is so incredibly sad and just disgusting. If I was having so much stolen, I would either have my packages held at the Post Office or local shipping office, get a storage locker to ship stuff to, or even put a lock box on my porch (fastened to the porch) to put my packages in. Something like human ashes you would think there would have been a signature upon delivery option but I guess not. Hopefully they will be returned but I doubt it. If they were in an urn, they will probably dump the ashes and try to pawn the urn. The level of depravity in today's world is just beyond disgusting.

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That reminds me of a story I read the other day; a woman went ballistic when her boyfriend cheated on her, so she got his Mother's ASHES and had someone film her as she dumped them into a creek....she was arrested and charged with abuse of a corpse.

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SaveTheTurtles — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 01:46:17 GMT

Very sad commentary and hopefully karma is a you know what for the porch pirates.