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kpete

(71,962 posts)
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 06:52 PM Jun 2014

A Woman’s Purse Was Stolen Along With Her Dead Son’s Pictures. Then Something Extraordinary Happened

A Woman’s Purse Was Stolen Along With Her Dead Son’s Pictures. Then Something Extraordinary Happened!
June 8, 2014



Patricia Harris discovered that her purse had been stolen while returning home with her children on Friday afternoon. Along with her credit cards and money, her purse contained a memory card containing the priceless photos of her dead baby son Cole, which the mother just couldn’t bear. The 500 images of Cole were the only copies she had.

So Patricia decided to do something about it. She and her fiancé Michael began taping up fliers all around their neighborhood with a picture of Cole begging the thief to return the memory card. As the distressed mother put it:

And then I just lost it. I wrote a note with black crayon that said “keep the tablet and phone but please return the memory card. It has pictures of my son. He died on February 22. He was two and a half months old.”

And it worked. On the following Monday, while at work, Patricia got a text from her fiancé telling her the memory card had been returned to the car. The thief, however, kept the rest and is still at large.


Read more at http://www.viralspell.com/womans-purse-stolen-along-dead-sons-pictures-something-extraordinary-happened/#VTlpt6urSAJxXGdT.99

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A Woman’s Purse Was Stolen Along With Her Dead Son’s Pictures. Then Something Extraordinary Happened (Original Post) kpete Jun 2014 OP
Cases like this... Michigander_Life Jun 2014 #1
actually based on this example it could be that the theif was desperate and needed money JI7 Jun 2014 #2
How often does that happen? Michigander_Life Jun 2014 #3
not sure, i don't have much sympathy for people who steal as i have had things stolen from me JI7 Jun 2014 #4
all empathy blooms from such tiny seeds. NuttyFluffers Jun 2014 #5
 

Michigander_Life

(549 posts)
1. Cases like this...
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 06:55 PM
Jun 2014

Both restore faith in humanity and make me wonder what all the fuss is about when we lock up thieves. Yeah, non-violent offender... But with a very REAL victim.

JI7

(89,240 posts)
2. actually based on this example it could be that the theif was desperate and needed money
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 07:04 PM
Jun 2014

but not totally heartless and cold as to ignore request to return memory stick.

 

Michigander_Life

(549 posts)
3. How often does that happen?
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 07:07 PM
Jun 2014

Compared to how often someone steals something that is sentimentally irreplaceable and doesn't return it?

JI7

(89,240 posts)
4. not sure, i don't have much sympathy for people who steal as i have had things stolen from me
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 07:09 PM
Jun 2014

but i know there are some who are desperate .

NuttyFluffers

(6,811 posts)
5. all empathy blooms from such tiny seeds.
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 07:37 PM
Jun 2014

perhaps there will be a day for enough empathy to do a national minimum income to prevent desperate destitution, too.

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