Items missing from 'Toot's' complex after gawkers, national media, Secret Service and police left

[bigtree]

Thursday, October 30, 2008

A hoard of gawkers, national media, Secret Service agents and police officers had finally left the apartment building of Barack Obama's grandmother last week when resident Thomas Stocks noticed that a heavy bird bath, a set of table and chairs and a potted plant had disappeared.

Left in their place at the Punahou Circle Apartments on Beretania Street are a pile of rubble that had once been the stone stand for the bird bath, an empty spot where elderly residents sat every day at the table in the building's open lobby, and the companion to a plant that Stocks bought for Obama's Honolulu vacation in August.

"It stoops to the absolute lowest of the community," said Stocks, a 47-year-old, retired insurance agent. "You can't believe that they would steal everything that wasn't nailed down just as a souvenir."

Stocks just wants everything brought back, no questions asked.

The old glass table and four companion chairs that normally sat in the middle of the lobby also had disappeared.

"It was used every day by a little old man and his wife who would sit at that table, or used to, and talk story after they got their mail," Stocks said. "I would hope a person would just return it."

The items that disappeared had little monetary worth, but lots of practical and sentimental value for the building's residents, Stocks said.

"Now they're all gone," he said. "Who would do such a thing?"


read: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081030/NEWS05/810300354/1001/LOCALNEWSFRONT

[Vickers]

1. "Who would do such a thing?"

Thieves?

:shrug:

[shadowknows69]

2. Some people, Democrat or Republican are just assholes

Period, full stop. Luckily they seem to have more of them.

[central scrutinizer]

3. check Ebay

some people have no ethics