Graverobber Starts Early, Steals Game Boy From Teen's Coffin

insanelich

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Nowhere close to the guy stealing from sick kids.

Corpses are corpses. He ain't gonna need his Game Boy underground. Sure, it's *tasteless*, but if he had escaped undetected, he wouldn't have been harming anybody but himself.
 

mjc0961

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Son of a *****. My grandpa died this Christmas, and his funeral is tomorrow (later today- whatever). It's a closed casket thing but still, if I caught someone stealing shit there would not be any "confronted and ran away", there would be "guy trying to steal from funeral receives severe beatdown".

Nice "jerkass" tag Mr. Funk, but I have a few more choice words for someone that shitty, and no I won't accept "drug and alcohol problems" as an excuse. It is still beyond low.

Ldude893 said:
While I believe that the game boy will be no use to the kid since he's dead, I can't help but post the following response:

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Desecrating the coffin of a dead teenager is one step over the line. I hope he receives fair punishment once they find him.
Right on George, right on. Also I think Stephen Fry has something to say about this guy as well:
 

insanelich

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SachielOne said:
Some crimes should carry an automatic death penalty for violating all tenets of human decency. This is one of those crimes.
Are you insane? Death penalty for stealing FROM A CORPSE? Really now?

Overall, taking away things that won't rot away from a coffin, he overall did a GOOD thing - for the environment at least - the dead sure as hell don't need Game Boys, and if he hadn't gotten caught he would have harmed absolutely nobody.

And you say this should carry the death penalty. For being an asshole that harms nobody. Get a grip and some perspective.
 

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Now, I know that was disrespectful, but the only thing I can think of at the moment is "why was he being buried with his Gameboy and the accessories?" Considering he naturally couldn't place those there himself, he more than likely told his relatives that his wish was to be buried with what he loved the most. That being a handheld game console.

I can't really get angry over this, even if I try. Sure, I was quite ready to get all American History X style on the sick shit who stole from kids' cancer ward, but he's dead. He's not going to be any less dead or any more happy even with a Gameboy down there. In fact, he has ceased to be already, so it doesn't matter if they buried him with fifty Playstation 3s. I'm not, of course, defending this guy being a douche, but I just can't really get worked up over this. The only real douchery here was making the boy's family feel more horrible.

Of course, I'm speaking as someone who thinks burials are wasteful and potentially dangerous (so many rotting corpses can and have been known to cause serious problems with, say, the groundwater), and who's donating everything they want to medicine and science, and then hopefully getting his scraps incinerated, so take it with a grain of salt if you don't agree. I just can't see a dead body as anything but fleshy trash. There's nothing in there, the person doesn't exist in any real sense any more.
 

CYBERSNAKE

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Maybe the Gameboy belonged to this guy and that kid stole it off him? Did any of you think about that?
 

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Honestly, the thing that caught my attention hear wasn't that the theft, but the fact that this kid had a Game Boy put into his casket. Seriously, wtf? I have strong attachments to my bass guitar but I don't want to be buried with it. Considering he was 17 I find it unlikely these were his funeral plans, so the family must have made that decision. That's really how you want to remember your son?

I have to picture this kid as looking worth of a "Don't worry ma'am, I'm from the internet" image.
 

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I'm pretty sure stealing from the dead has been looked down upon and has been a crime for the last 2700 years. What a freakin' douche.

Edit: I'm sure he wouldn't miss it though.
 

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To all of you who said "Well, he is dead. So what is the point of wasting a perfectly good Gameboy ?":

Funerals are not for the benefit of the deceased. Not really.
They are for the family and friends of the deceased. They are meant to allow them to express their own feellings and process what happened.
THAT is why there was a Gameboy in the coffin, because it apparently made the family feel better (either because it was meant to honor an actual wish of the deceased or because it allowed the family to make the funeral more individually significant, which is always nice).
So yes, stealing from the deceased at the funeral is an act of immense duchebaggery.
Not quite on the level of evil as stealing from sick children (which is COMIC BOOK evil) is, but still...
 

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Am I the only one who read the title and thought, holy crap some dude dug up a freaking grave to get a gameboy?!
While still terrible, it is pretty easy to see how a druggie could just take a gameboy from an open casket in a funeral parlor.
 

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-slowclap- SO let's get this straight. Forum goes into 'i mad' mode after druggie steals worthless trinket from a open casket.

This guy is the most successful troll ever.
 

JediMB

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Can't help thinking about all the video games in which us gamers regularly rob people's graves without a second thought.
 

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Err... but this guy was dead anyway. Seriously, whats the bad thing here? Okay, it was not his property, but stealing from someone who won't ever profit from having it seems better than stealing from someone who would use it.
 

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All I can say is I hope he gets caught, but if not, I hope the Gameboy doesn't even work.
 

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Wow theres some hot blooded statelers around again here.
Well he's a thief, not even a graverobber by law. Punish him as such and thats it.
 

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Double A said:
Mackheath said:
For once, I'm glad the USA allows guns...
It's not big enough for the death penalty, but you just know this guy is gonna get shot.
Look of the guy he needs to be harpooned. Can't wait to hear about his jail experience. You know that's gonna spread all over by the guards "Hey what that guy do?" "Stole a gameboy from a kid." "That's it?" "The kid was dead and the gameboy was in his coffin." "Really? I hear Razor bull over there needs a new girl friend...put him in there."
 

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SachielOne said:
Some crimes should carry an automatic death penalty for violating all tenets of human decency. This is one of those crimes.
I would not go that far even if the crime we are talking about would have been torture. But since torture is apparently not a a hard enough crime to be prosecuted for, if you are an American torturing "for" the USA, stealing from a dead person seems to be.

Stealing from a dead person is probably the second most crimeless "crime" I can think of. Only topped by crossing the street at a red traffic light if you are the only person there.
 

CommanderKirov

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Why would anyone want to steal a classic Game-Boy... THESE THINGS ARE LIKE 10$ DOWN AT THE BAZAAR!

Fuck it, when I die I'm having my grave site mined and my coffin to be rigged with explosives.
I don't want bloody grave theives or archeologists disrupting my peace without getting face and stomach full of shrapnels.