Robbing from the dead...hope they can sleep at night

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My friend's BIL passed...he collected bonsai. She was going to give the trees to me...her husband said his brother would have liked someone who enjoyed the same hobby as him have them. (She gave me two small ones he bought from BonsaiBoy.com from the papers he still had) But was sickened to see someone stole his larger bonsai off his back patio wall. I felt bad for them...grieving, and finding someone picking from the loved ones possessions. More upset over their emotions getting kicked down. Than having them passed to me. (With wanting my collection at 20-25 and being selective it wasn't about not getting them)

She kept a medium size Procumben to remember her BIL with. I offered to winter it in my gazebo with my trees, She gave me a tiny Procumben and a Serissa fetoda along with a desktop grow light.

I think she would have done better to keep the Serissa...could have wintered it indoors and enjoyed it. If her bonsai ends up dying...I will let her have the tropical. Thinking she might have more enjoyment from it.
 
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My husband was shocked someone would think to take a bonsai. I explained that bonsai are stolen all the time sadly. But, to take a dead man's bonsai...it's horrible! Like a vulture picking at dead bones...I feel for the family which are dealing with grief wasn't enough. To have this added to it.
 
It always makes me wonder what the people even know what they are stealing when they take a bonsai. It looks cool? It's worth money? Do they have other bonsai? Are they able to take care of it? I don't understand this at all. Do they try to sell them? Do they ever get caught? Do the police even care? Can bonsai be insured?
 
Sadly, they can't even report it. Because they don't know enough about bonsai to even file a report. But...yes Mike, I so think that as well. It was a long discussion with the hubby on the return trip home from looking at a job.
 
Um, could it have been taken by a family member? Just asking. Sometimes relatives can be sneaky and take stuff "because no one's going to miss it" or other mostly self-serving justifications. It may also have been taken by someone genuinely worried about it being cared for after the death.

It's worth asking around in a non-accusatory manner "Whatever happened to that big bonsai? I'm concerned someone's got it inside and it will die" etc.
 
No only he and his brother was left from their family. Though a neighbor kept coming over saying..."He had such nice things." Wanting to poke around in his house. Which was not going over well with my friends husband.

I guess she could mention to the one who kept coming over...what you mentioned about whatever happened to the larger bonsai. That she hoped they weren't kept indoors or they would die.

I doubt they ever see it again, but possibly it will cause the one who may have taken it to research on care.
 
I would start a social media campaign. In the past it has prooved quite succesfull in getting trees back.
 
Sadly, I don't even get surprised anymore at the depths people will stoop to.
 
VAFisher said:
Sadly, I don't even get surprised anymore at the depths people will stoop to.
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People represent the worst... and the best... of nature. I try to focus on the great things people have done while not being naive about the evil. If someone steals from me, it is a crime against themselves... versus a crime against me.
 
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