St. Louis Post-Dispatch Reporter, Photographer Robbed in Dominican Republic Covering Oscar Taveras Funeral

A St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter and photographer were robbed in the Dominican Republic while covering the funeral services of Oscar Taveras, the young Cardinals star who died in a car accident last weekend.

The pair went straight from the airport to the funeral, and while conducting interviews and taking photos of a tragedy, someone broke into their car and stole everything.

And then something nice happened: the locals felt bad for the journalists, and tried to help them, shuttling the pair around desperately looking for computer equipment to file their stories.

"“For the people to help us the way they did while they were mourning, I have a tremendous amount of appreciation and respect for that,” [writer Derrick Goold] added. “They didn’t have to do anything because in a way we were intruding on their day, their pain, and they did everything they could to help us.”"

If you are hovering around funerals looking to break into cars, your ticket to hell is stamped. [via St. Louis Post-Dispatch]