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[Tim Drayton]

This has been going on for years and they make good money because they sell the flowers in bazoukia and cabarets for the patrons to buy for their "girlfriends" or to throw at the "artistes".

There used to be one in Nicosia that was convicted of stealing flowers from cemeteries, I am not sure what his punishment was.

Conviction? Interesting. It is hard to believe that they would take it that far in Cyprus.

[CBBB]

This has been going on for years and they make good money because they sell the flowers in bazoukia and cabarets for the patrons to buy for their "girlfriends" or to throw at the "artistes".

There used to be one in Nicosia that was convicted of stealing flowers from cemeteries, I am not sure what his punishment was.

Conviction? Interesting. It is hard to believe that they would take it that far in Cyprus.

He must have taken the flowers from the grave of someone important.

[GreekIslandGirl]

Excuse me, but if those flowers had been picked and laid by a graveside to *die*, then I don't see the problem if someone comes along and recycles them. After all, the Church gives away the flowers after the epitaphio for precisely that reason. They have done their job and then are recycled, used again!

The mourners have their moment of feeling good that they have taken flowers to their beloved's grave and the job has been done. No problem if someone later removes them from on top of the dead - a victim-less crime?

Anyway, why convict someone for taking flowers under such circumstances? Are they better left to die and others grown in greenhouses to sell on?

And, what about those fisherman that go in the sea and take the fish that belong to everybody and then sell them on? huh!

[repulsewarrior]

...in any case, likely the same person can make an honest living, even in graveyards, rather than picking graves because it is convenient.

[Pyrpolizer]

Excuse me, but if those flowers had been picked and laid by a graveside to *die*, then I don't see the problem if someone comes along and recycles them. After all, the Church gives away the flowers after the epitaphio for precisely that reason. They have done their job and then are recycled, used again!

The mourners have their moment of feeling good that they have taken flowers to their beloved's grave and the job has been done. No problem if someone later removes them from on top of the dead - a victim-less crime?

Anyway, why convict someone for taking flowers under such circumstances? Are they better left to die and others grown in greenhouses to sell on?

And, what about those fisherman that go in the sea and take the fish that belong to everybody and then sell them on? huh!

GIG we don't just throw them on the grave. This is only done at the day of the funeral.
We put them in vases with water, and they stay fresh all night.
It's basically stealing but if someone doesn't have any better way of surviving i don't care, let him take them.

[Get Real!]

Apparently it’s a common crime by women…

In Australia:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... s-Day.html

In the U.S…
http://pix11.com/2017/04/28/flower-shop ... or-months/

In Canada…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/w ... -1.3191420

In England…
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/grave-fl ... 77096.html

Another in the US…
http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/23/furious-m ... e-5075919/

Women seem to have this special bond with the dead…

[HDP5]

It's very sad people steal flowers from graves. We have had many flowers and living plants, which are watered and looked after seveal days a week, taken from my Papou's grave in Larnaca.

[supporttheunderdog]

An absolute disgrace - shameful behaviour

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/angry-dad-captures-moment-confronted-10534790

[Tim Drayton]

An absolute disgrace - shameful behaviour

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/angry-dad-captures-moment-confronted-10534790

Agreed. It is a disgrace regardless of where it happens.

[Get Real!]

It’s a fact of life that for every 100 people born on the planet a certain percentage will end up losers engaging in such and much worse acts.

What determines “loserhood”, or "loserness" or “losership” if I may invent some words, is a complex socioeconomic (and perhaps genetic) factor worthy of research.

And that’s as far as I’m taking it…