Victor Rakich with a tray of potted colour - not as complete as it was before someone helped themselves - for his parents' graves at Kaitaia Cemetery. Photo / Peter Jackson
Victor Rakich gave up trying to understand where the world was going some time ago.
He is no nearer finding an answer since someone started stealing plants from his parents' graves.
"Why would anyone do this?" he asked last week after pansies were taken from the plastic tray he had put
there a few days earlier.
"Don't these people, whoever they are, have a heart?"
Rakich takes very good care of his parents' final resting place at the Kaitaia Cemetery. His father, Ivan, died in 1993, and his mother, Zorka, in 2012, but they are never far from his thoughts.
He visits them three or four times a week, and regularly buys small flowering plants for them. And now someone has begun stealing them.
