Can this really be true?

From the BBC website today. Surely not!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-34022944

 

It seems very strange that someone would leave a real Victoria Cross in a parked car.

 

I agree, I wouldn't leave any such valuables in my car, full stop.

 

Stolen between the 27th-29th July reported 16th August??????

http://www.scotland.police.uk/whats-happening/news/2015/august/potentialtheftofwarmedals


Kyle

 

Yes and they weren't missed for three weeks. Odd.

 

Interesting to see just how many VCs have been stolen or `lost`


http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/aastolen.htm


Kyle

 

I agree that it appears strange and does not ring true, but there really are absent minded people around and many without any common sense.
Regards
Tom

 

I think you're right Tom, also sometimes families don't realise what they actually possess. Still a bit fishy this one.

 

It could be true.I will go as far as the onset of dementia.

I remember it reported some years ago that a well known comedian on the road to deteriorating mental health.....transpired he had the practice of wandering around his home town with a plastic bag full of banknotes.It does happen to such people who for some reason or other do not have a caring hand to oversee them.

I am sure there are many examples of what may be regarded as irrational practices carried out by such people who lack a caring hand.

 

Someone I used to work with, her grandfather won a VC during WW1. She didn't have a clue regarding the significance of it. Infact the family didn't if I remember correctly. They gave it to his regiments museum.

 

The incident and particulars of this theft have been added to the list of VC's reported stolen over the years. This is the same link referred to by Kyle in post 6 of this thread.

http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/aastolen.htm