08-08-2016, 02:11 PM
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Re: Thieving b***ers
Originally Posted by Mups
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We used to scrump Bruce, but only take an apple or two to eat, not empty someones entire vegetable patch and take every bit of fruit from their trees.
08-08-2016, 02:52 PM
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Re: Thieving b***ers
Originally Posted by Mups
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We used to scrump Bruce, but only take an apple or two to eat, not empty someones entire vegetable patch and take every bit of fruit from their trees.
How many until it becomes theft?
08-08-2016, 02:54 PM
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Re: Thieving b***ers
Mups, spoke to Lynda last night from the allotments. She has lost about 6 courgettes (though said they weren't ready), someone has lost a lot of figs from their tree, and another person had someone go into their greenhouse and move things about.These are the ones we know about from this weekend/week.
I'm sitting with my feet up after trawling diy stores, with a cuppa, then will go down to allotment, do some watering, and pick some kohl rabies. If they're still there. I'll take photos of them so you can see how they've grown.
We all suffer thefts here and get so fed up with it. Some of the guilty people are fellow plot holders but as we are a huge site we just have so man people here and unfortunately they just can't stop themselves from stealing.
Also two side of the site back on to back gardens and a fair few have made an access on to us.
08-08-2016, 03:55 PM
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Re: Thieving b***ers
How sad is life these days!
When I was a child there were allotments next to our back garden. A couple of the ones that were close to our house were polish and had big families. My mum would make tea and biscuits for them and they, in turn, would give us some of their produce. They would even lift the children over the fence to have a go on my swing. I often wonder why is everyone for themselves these days and friendly behavior has disappeared. There was no need for security at allotments then because people were happy to share rather than steal.
08-08-2016, 04:08 PM
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Re: Thieving b***ers
Originally Posted by Nom
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Mmmmmmm, tasty missed the strawberries though.
Plods are looking for a couple of bedlington terrorists.
08-08-2016, 04:14 PM
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Re: Thieving b***ers
About a month ago here our local police stopped a van driving through our little local town, they thought it looked somewhat overloaded. It was certainly overloaded, with lemons, I forget how many kilos but it was a lot.On the way to our little town both sides of the road are lemon and orange trees, it's very common to see tourists in hire cars stopping and climbing over the fences to take the fruit, often carrier bags full.
Last year acres of orange and lemon trees were cleared, new top soil put down, new auto watering systems in place and high metal fencing erected, instead of just the ditches and bushes to climb over. Now the thieves climb over the metal fences and are stealing the newly planted little trees. Some people will steal anything I think.
08-08-2016, 05:40 PM
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Re: Thieving b***ers
Originally Posted by clumsy
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About a month ago here our local police stopped a van driving through our little local town, they thought it looked somewhat overloaded. It was certainly overloaded, with lemons, I forget how many kilos but it was a lot.On the way to our little town both sides of the road are lemon and orange trees, it's very common to see tourists in hire cars stopping and climbing over the fences to take the fruit, often carrier bags full.
Last year acres of orange and lemon trees were cleared, new top soil put down, new auto watering systems in place and high metal fencing erected, instead of just the ditches and bushes to climb over. Now the thieves climb over the metal fences and are stealing the newly planted little trees. Some people will steal anything I think.
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