Memorial Statue Stolen From Public Library's Grounds

[XanaDUer]

A sad story out of Long Island:


http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-listat275860346sep27,0,497969.story


Shana Kay was passionate about reading. For that reason, her family decided to commemorate that love after her unexpected death in July 2005 with a bronze statue of a young girl on a bench reading a book. It was installed at her beloved local library.

But overnight Thursday, someone took the statue from the front entrance of Commack Public Library, 18 Commack Rd. It had been bolted and cemented into the ground and weighed as much as 300 pounds...

SNIP

Amid the lagging economy, officials have seen a surge in scrap metal thefts nationwide. With copper prices doubling in the last five years, nothing seems safe. Pipes, mausoleum doors and manhole covers have been boosted by thieves.

[fascisthunter]

1. everybody is stealing from the "commons"

sign of the times, thanks to Republican Policies....

[XanaDUer]

2. And it's going to get worse

today I have to go on a gasoline quest here in metro Atlanta. Jeez, and this is America?

[fascisthunter]

3. I Read that You all in the South have a Shortage right?

It'll eventually hit us too I suppose up here in the North East. Stay well.....

[XanaDUer]

4. Yes, supposedly we have a "shortage"

I have a teeny, tiny car, thank God. However, I live in red-county-wing-nut-from-hell county, and the locals are having a harder and harder time blaming this all on the Clenis.

Which, except for the inconvenience it is causing me, generates some amusement.

[fascisthunter]

5. Do Folks in that County Hassle You due to Your Politics?

[XanaDUer]

6. Yes and no...

My BF is afraid, should I put any type of sticker on my car that proclaims my political preferences, I may be harassed and/or killed. I'm a female, and this may be a realistic fear.

Because I'm "white", although not Angle-Saxon or Protestant, it is assumed at work that I am a republican and I have to listen to all sorts of offensive and ignorant drivel. I hate my job and living here but, until the economy straightens out, I am stuck here.

I do let it be known that I am not a Southern Baptist Republican at appropriate times, however.

[fascisthunter]

7. Wow... Up Here in New England... no Right Winger has to worry about that

from liberals or Democrats... it really is telling.

[XanaDUer]

8. There are some cool people here

already the mccain/palin stickers are appearing on cars, although not as many as i thought there would be...

[fascisthunter]

9. That's Good... getting through to some will change that Dynamic

Nobody should fear for their lives due to political ideology unless that ideology were responsible for deaths, such as Nazism and Fascism....

[XanaDUer]

10. Let's hope...

:hi:

[fascisthunter]

11. right back at you neighbor

:pals:

Thanks for keeping America Purple... too many good folks been swindled.

[XanaDUer]

12. However, when they keep up the meme that, somehow

liberals got us into this mess, I do lose some of my sympathy for them.

[SweetieD]

13. This is becoming a more common occurrence. Copper thieving is on the rise.

[avaistheone1]

15. Copper, bronze any metal thieves can turn to cash.

[XanaDUer]

14. Kick for the morning crew.

nt.