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Money Tree cost me thousands!!
05 Jul 16 22:30
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A neighbour has had most of his strawberry plants removed. Some were in pots others in the ground.
He is upset but says it's not illegal.
Seem like theft still.
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Report casemoney • July 5, 2016 10:32 PM BST
Does he live near Wimbledon ?
Report Ron-Russian • July 5, 2016 10:36 PM BST
Is this a gangland thing?

It sounds like your neighbours accepting the loss! so has he stolen someone else's
strawberries in the past & now it's pay back time...
Report Coachbuster • July 5, 2016 10:36 PM BST
i think its a plant
Report Money Tree cost me thousands!! • July 5, 2016 10:38 PM BST
Lol no Ron I suppose there's zero chance of finding who took them.
I said I go sit in the shed a couple of evenings and see if anyone's back taking more.
If I caught them would anything be done?
Report casemoney • July 5, 2016 10:40 PM BST
Add arsenic to a few of them ,He wont be back
Report zorrostrikes • July 5, 2016 11:11 PM BST
piss on the produce = smile.
Report The Leopard • July 5, 2016 11:14 PM BST
Set up hidden cams.
Report Ron-Russian • July 5, 2016 11:20 PM BST
Camassia

Camassia is a genus of plants in the asparagus family native to Canada and the United States. Common names include camas, quamash, Indian hyacinth, camash, and wild hyacinth.
Report Gallivanter • July 6, 2016 12:10 AM BST
Stealing is always illegal. In theory, you can ask the police to investigate. In practice, you have to take action yourself. Booby traps are illegal and the police love to prosecute anyone who uses them. Poisoning the plants will also get you grief.

However, fertilising the plants is quite okay. Some gardeners prefer to fertilise from the ground up, others prefer to start at the top. If you aren't going to eat the things, why not fertilise from the top?

Instead of growing an edible crop, you're growing a show crop for exhibition. A small sign, explaining what you're doing, should keep you on the right side of the law here.
Report tictacman1 • July 6, 2016 12:18 AM BST
stick a few bear traps under the straw, then follow the blood trail....
Report Foinavon • July 6, 2016 10:45 AM BST
Unfortunately two-legged rats are a protected species. Apart from minor measures, such as allowing nettles and thorny plants to grow in strategic places, one has to grin and bear it.
Report Money Tree cost me thousands!! • July 6, 2016 2:04 PM BST
Really foinavon?
What if I was to catch one in the act of removing stuff?
Report Early Morning Riser • July 6, 2016 2:06 PM BST
Maybe its the same folk thats making our swans/ducks vanish from their ponds.
Report Money Tree cost me thousands!! • July 6, 2016 2:09 PM BST
God knows. 
I take an evening walk each day so I now stroll through there.
His son is a real decent bloke and has started to build a big wood frame that he is going to fill with chicken wire on sides and mesh ontop.
It will stop the birds getting at his berries and mean loads aggro for human to
Report xmoneyx • July 6, 2016 2:11 PM BST
CI  new storyline
Report Money Tree cost me thousands!! • July 6, 2016 2:14 PM BST
C I ??
Report xmoneyx • July 6, 2016 2:25 PM BST
Crime Investigation
Report Jack Hacksaw • July 6, 2016 2:52 PM BST
CCDA need a few clues here.

Anyone with blue hair in the vicinity?
Report themightymac • July 6, 2016 3:33 PM BST
Lettuce know how he gets on.
Report Dr Crippen • July 6, 2016 4:37 PM BST
A sign of the times that people will stoop so low to take stuff from an allotment.

Also the fact that there are people about who don't realise that taking something that belongs to someone else is illegal speaks volumes.
Report Foinavon • July 6, 2016 8:15 PM BST

Money Tree cost me thousands!! 06 Jul 16 14:04 Joined: 09 Mar 08 | Topic/replies: 12,890 | Blogger: Money Tree cost me thousands!!'s blog
Really foinavon?
What if I was to catch one in the act of removing stuff?


Well you could request his name and address in order to inform the police and ask him to return your property.
Any act of violence on your part could lead to prosecution.
Report betting_masta • July 6, 2016 9:59 PM BST

Jul 6, 2016 -- 3:33PM, themightymac wrote:


Lettuce know how he gets on.


Laugh

Report betting_masta • July 6, 2016 10:00 PM BST
he should set up an electric fence
Report themightymac • July 8, 2016 12:45 PM BST
Have they caught the Pear yet that stole the poor guy's Strawberries?
Report danniellasmincepies • July 8, 2016 12:55 PM BST
If caught will the punnetment fit the crime
Report Money Tree cost me thousands!! • July 8, 2016 1:20 PM BST
The big frame is up with lock on it now so no more thefts from his allotment.
Report Aunty Post • July 8, 2016 2:44 PM BST
The petty thieves haven't realised that they missed the big earner!

Old panel pine doors. Could be worth £60.00a piece when dipped and in reasonable condition.
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