SEGUIN — Some people will steal anything, and it doesn’t get much lower than the theft reported recently at Wal-Mart.
Store employees reported someone stole several statues of Our Lady of Guadalupe from in front of the store’s garden center Thursday.
The statues, made of weighted plastic and painted, are around three feet tall. They were marked down from $49.83 to $37 as part of a clearance special, but even that price wasn’t low enough to suit whoever took them, police say.
The only description available was that the suspect was a Hispanic male. Nothing was known of the vehicle he was in or whether he worked alone in the heist.
Seguin Police Detective Sgt. Johnny San Miguel said it was unclear just how many of the statues were stolen.
He said he would work hard to find out who committed the theft.
“I hope I catch him,” Miguel said.
But either way, the thief will have to live with his conscience — if he has one.
“The man upstairs works in mysterious ways,” Miguel said. “He will deal with this.”
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Maybe he was a member of an underground cell of iconoclasts!
Or maybe a parish liturgist so use to yanking statues.
I like the fact that an archangel is on the trail. In the queen’s service.
Perhaps he’s a member of the “Good Taste Police,” and these plastic statues didn’t pass muster.
Can I just say that these comments are another reason I’m grateful for the Curt Jester’s blog?! Not a lot of places I can find humor like this!
Fr Phillips,
I know someone who has WANTED to steal a statue of the Blessed Mother from the home of someone who obtained it only to desecrate it. (He dresses it obscenely, paints on it, turns it upside down, etc) She asked for the statue, asked him to STOP what he’s doing and offered to buy it, all to no avail. He just laughed. She no longer associates with him, but the question lingers: Is there such a thing as righteous theft?
Joanne:
Perhaps we could consider that action as “removing a near occasion of sin.”
I can but second Margo’s comment. Now I must confess (WHEN will I finally join the True Faith?) I am VERY happy when Walmart gets ripped off?! I just don’t like Walmart.
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Thank you, Mr. Muller. I totally missed the detective’s name: San Miguel (Saint Michael). That is truly apropos.
To Joanne, the only thing you can do is pray for that fellow. He obviously wants the attention for his sacreligious “art”, so you did the best actions (attempt to instruct, then ignore). I feel for you, though. I used to want to pull the rosaries off the necks off my peers when I was a teen.