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More than 100 brass vases have been stolen from a cemetery in Tochigi City, police say.
Police said the vases were stolen on July 29 from a cemetery which is located within Seichi Park in Tochigi City. NTV reported that 52 pairs of vases, 104 in total, were stolen. Their value is about 52,000 yen in total.
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Derp Man
The dead are dead, you can't steal from something that can't breath and doesn't have a heart beat, because it technically not considered stealing (If i spelt something wrong, don't be a grammar Nazi about it)
Mu Staff
Tochigi's finest will absolutely catch the culprits behind this crime. Very few crimes in Japan go unsolved.
keika1628
small little fellows that only hold an incense stick
Kobe White Bar Owner
The thing people will do for money, shameful!
SweetPretzels15
Disrespectful.
Kenny Iyekawa
52,000 yen for 100 brass vases ... something doesn't add up...
A.N. Other
Presumably done for profit. I think we all agree that it's no way to urn money.
smithinjapan
Disgusting crime, but in this day and age not hugely surprising. Even in Japan you can't leave things lying around any more if they might have any value to anyone.
Disillusioned: "The local metal recycling smelters would be the first place to check. See if any of them have an order for brass to fill and I'm sure they'll find the culprits."
Might require some common sense and actual work by the local keystones, so I wouldn't count on this, unless the smelters who would profit from it come forward, happening.
keika1628
Ditch that idea, how about the hardware store that has a new line of vases that are slow to move.
Ali Khan
please spare the dead
Ted2014
Scum of the Earth
avigator
No respect for the dead. That is called desecretion.
Disillusioned
The local metal recycling smelters would be the first place to check. See if any of them have an order for brass to fill and I'm sure they'll find the culprits.
CrazyJoe
What goes around comes around.
Wc626
I hope the theives are haunted forever by these angry ghosts. Sickening crime for only ¥52,000.
Monozuki
What a base-minded creature! Hope the crook gets divine punishment.
MarkG
The families of those who visit find the grave defaced. Terrible! Let's hope ghosts exist and the robber/s are haunted.
Michael Craig
Terrible! Have they no respect for the dead?!
MapleG
What an absolutely disgusting crime.