Garden Theft

[Alan W.]

Talkin to my cousin this afternoon and he told me someone picked all the beans from his garden. From the shoe prints he said there were at least three involved. He then told me about another buddy of his that had his beans, corn and tomatoes stolen also recently. They live about a half mile apart.
Both of their gardens are close to the highway.
Id give stuff to anyone that needed it. But I cant tolerate a thief.

 

[Jstpssng]

My mother's closest neighbor had the same thing happen a couple of years ago. Warranted or not they always blamed it on the homeless village a mile or so away. Why work when you can just take the fruit of somebody else's labors?

When I worked at the apple orchard they considered the row of trees along the road to be a loss. One day I caught a neighbor woman with her two kids in the middle of the orchard with a bushel of apples... I asked them to go to the house and pay for them and followed them out on the tractor, but when they hit the road she just laughed at me and drove home... 1/2 mile down the road.

 

[TnAndy]

Buddy of mine plowed, tilled, planted about an acre garden at his church. They couldn't even get anyone to come pick it for free. Next year it went back to lawn.

 

[zzvyb6]

Gardener put up a sign: "One of these melons is filled with poison".

A few days later the sign had been modified with an addition: "Now there is more than one".

 

[oosik]

The garden robbers I've had left paw or hoof prints. Some left no prints at all - mice, chipmunk & blackbirds.

 

[Shaneard]

We had corn planted near a major road once, so many people would stop and raise the hood on their car and grab some corn. When we picked it we found a pile someone picked and put on the ground then left.

 

[Deere Dude]

Had a very friendly and giving neighbor that had two nice apple trees along the road 100' from their house. One day during harvest season they came out and saw 1/2 of both trees stripped from apples nearest the road. That was part of the harvest they were going to give us.

During sweet corn time in Wisconsin a car was spotted niking a bushel of corn by the owner of the corn field. He didn't say anything but the next day or so went into a shoe store in town and tried on a nice pair of cowboy boots. With the boots on he got up and started to walk away and the owner said that would be $xx please. The man with the new boots on said, "That pretty much covers the cost of the corn you stole last night." He let him go.

 

[NorTracNY]

I caught a guy picking the blackcaps on my place. He's was very apologetic and said he'd been coming here 20years to do it. I was nice to him as I had only built my place 2 years earlier. It got me that he pulled into my driveway to do it.

 

[Molalla1]

I caught a guy picking the blackcaps on my place. He's was very apologetic and said he'd been coming here 20years to do it. I was nice to him as I had only built my place 2 years earlier. It got me that he pulled into my driveway to do it.

My dogs will not allow such. :laughing:

 

[oldballs]

Just a couple hours ago, a squirrel tried to steal some of my electricity. He tripped the circuit breaker at the power pole. He's dead now.:thumbsup:

cheers,
Mike

 

[Molalla1]

Just a couple hours ago, a squirrel tried to steal some of my electricity. He tripped the circuit breaker at the power pole. He's dead now.:thumbsup:

cheers,
Mike

Love it when they self eradicate themselves . . . :laughing:

 

[3Ts]

Just a couple hours ago, a squirrel tried to steal some of my electricity. He tripped the circuit breaker at the power pole. He's dead now.

self BBQing, just bring the sauce.

 

[EddieWalker]

My garden is inside my fenced back yard, and I have 4 Akita's that feel it's their job to keep everything out of their yard.

I've seen people post pictures on Facebook where they have stopped along a highway somewhere and picked fruit off of a tree and commented on how good it tasted. Others will comment on how lucky they are to have found such a great treat, but nobody comments on them being a thief. I feel like I should say something, but I haven't yet.

 

[Jstpssng]

My garden is inside my fenced back yard, and I have 4 Akita's that feel it's their job to keep everything out of their yard.

I've seen people post pictures on Facebook where they have stopped along a highway somewhere and picked fruit off of a tree and commented on how good it tasted. Others will comment on how lucky they are to have found such a great treat, but nobody comments on them being a thief. I feel like I should say something, but I haven't yet.

It won't do any good, stealing produce is different somehow than other things. There was an apple orchard in my home town, which everybody knew guarded their orchard with rock salt. They stopped the practice after their son went to prison for assault with a deadly weapon after shooting an apple thief.

 

[clemsonfor]

My garden is inside my fenced back yard, and I have 4 Akita's that feel it's their job to keep everything out of their yard.

I've seen people post pictures on Facebook where they have stopped along a highway somewhere and picked fruit off of a tree and commented on how good it tasted. Others will comment on how lucky they are to have found such a great treat, but nobody comments on them being a thief. I feel like I should say something, but I haven't yet.

If I had a FB, I'd say something!! I almost feel bad for when I was a kid my dad stopping in a cotton field and picking us a few cotton bowls from a plant to show in school . And I literally mean a few. Like one stick with a few cotton clumps on it!!! There is 1000's x what we picked left in the field after picking. Still feel bad to this day cause that was not our place , just the side of the highway in farm country in the 80s or very early 90s.

 

[two_bit_score]

I just can't get over the idea that so many people can justify a "little" theft in their own minds as if it just doesn't matter.

I have more respect for the out right thieves who do it deliberately and admit their dishonesty.

 

[Jstpssng]

The farmer I used to prune for had two orchards, one behind his house and the other down the road and about 1/4 mile off the public road. I was telling a friend where I was working and one of her coworkers piped up and said "You must be talking about the Hidden Orchard!" Apparently he and his buddies got there apples there every year instead of buying them.
Small wonder that the farmer eventually pulled the trees and turned it into a field.

 

[mikester]

My dogs will not allow such. :laughing:

My dogs used to eat the black caps before I could get them!

 

[BRMyers]

If I had a FB, I'd say something!! I almost feel bad for when I was a kid my dad stopping in a cotton field and picking us a few cotton bowls from a plant to show in school . And I literally mean a few. Like one stick with a few cotton clumps on it!!! There is 1000's x what we picked left in the field after picking. Still feel bad to this day cause that was not our place , just the side of the highway in farm country in the 80s or very early 90s.

You statement reminds me of when we took a family trip down south as a kid. My dad wanted to show us the cotton field because my sister and I had never seen one before. He pulled into a farmer's driveway and went up to the door. Next thing you know the farmer and dad came over to the old station wagon and we got a complete tour of the farm. We got cotton seeds and samples of cotton. I still have pictures of it. I don't remember much about that vacation, but I still remember stopping at that farm and getting to see the giant bales of cotton.

Sorry for being off topic, but your statement brought back that wonderful memory.

 

[CobyRupert]

...continue the tangent...
...these stories reminds me of growing up on 70's dairy farm. Strange station wagon pulls into drive. Family rolls out. They were just randomly driving around from tourist town 20+ miles away (Lake George). They were from New York City! That might of as well as been the Moon to a 10year old. The father was a red nosed Irish cop right (fit the perfect stereotype) with a larger than life personality. We'd compare and contrast our two worlds. They'd come back for a few hours every year.
I remember being a bit older, I had just learned to drive a tractor & had raked a 20 ace hay field. They asked me later what I'd been doing so I told them. His response was "Your arms must be tired." I probably said: "Not too bad" (Thinking: Huh?? - I mean the tractor didn't have power steering, but I managed. ) One of those odd comments that took me years to figure out he probably believed I'd done it by hand!