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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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I thought I've seen everything. Yesterday I saw two woman stopped along side the road stealing neighbor's corn. They were cutting the stock at ground level and putting it in the back of a nice looking 4 door pickup. I was going to ask them if they had permission to cut the corn, but they ran off when they saw me coming. Wasn't as if they were poor people.
 
If they would stop and ask the owner if they could BUY a few stalks for their fall decorations more than likely they would be told help your self and NO I want nothing for the corn. That would make everyone feel better. Rod.
 
Thanksgiving decoration had that almost happen to me except he was after a pine tree for Christmas I caught him before he got it. Some people think that you have so much your not going to miss a little bit.
 
Definitely nothing new. Friend of mine had a roadside wagon he'd fill with sweet corn along hwy 23 near Reedsburg. He said he'd average $2 per dozen on the wagon, but he'd always see people (women included) coming out of the field behind it with bags full of corn & never pay. So he started planting the first 6 rows with free roundup ready test plot corn he got from work. They still stole it. City folk don't know what sweet corn is, and the thieves pry still thought it was good...
 
Since they were cutting the entire stalk I bet they planned to use if for fall decorations. I saw someone the other day with a single corn stalk in the back of a pickup.
 
A guy in town always got his garden raided
finally put up a sign saying please wash
produce carefully have just sprayed. No
more stealing but that was a while back now
they would steal it get sick and sue you
 
Years ago I lived on the last street in a small town in Minnesota. Behind our house was a large field that was rotated from year to year with corn and soybeans. One year I caught a couple of neighbor boys having fun by pulling up soy bean plants and throwing them onto the ground. I asked them to stop since neither they nor I owned the plants. They were sassy and basically ignored me.

I went to their parents and asked them to stop the boys from destroying the farmer's crop. They just laughed and said that the farmer would never miss the plants, he had plenty.

I have no idea what ever became of the kids or parents since I moved away from that area a couple of years later. I hope that they all came to their senses, but it's not likely.

Tom in TN
 
My wife and I use to raise pumpkins then line our driveway with them and sold them on the honor system. On Sunday morning we got up and they were all gone along with our sign. That following Wednesday a car with about 5 teens came to our house and asked if we had pumpkins stolen. We said yes and they said. We know who did it. The theives were in town bragging about it and still had the pumpkins in their car. We called the cops and yes they were caught. The theives were two late teen early 20's girls. The one mom came with them on Thursday evening. They said they were dared by some of their friend to steel them. They wanted to return the pumpkins and I said no. The mom couldn't believe I would let them return them and set them in my garage. I told her they stole from me do you think I want them in my garage so they can see other things they may steel. I had the most wonderful 30 minutes of my life chewing A$$ that evening. I told them to Bring them back Saturday morning (I wanted them to sit on them and think about what they did) and meet us at the end of the driveway. Well they came back Saturday and just paid us for them. The one girl came from a broken family and didn't have anything and her car was in sad shape.
 
I remember Orion Samuelson telling one time about somebody selling sweet corn they had stolen from a field behind their house,right from a stand in their front yard.
 
Our farm windbreak consists of about 1000 spruce and pine trees my wife and family planted over the last ten years, now most are about 5 or 6 feet tall. Some have gone missing close to Christmas in the last few years. Ben
 
Two Sunday's ago I was on my way home and saw a car and a pickup off the side of the road and a young lady and a young fella behind them. She had a paper sack with some ears of my feeder corn in it so I stopped and got out and walked over to that side of the road and asked them if I could help them. He stood there dumb looking and she got a scared look on her face and asked if it was mine, and I said that it was. Turns out that she was a school teacher and wanted it to make something with her class children. The deer eat far more than she was...taking, so I laughed it off, told her to say HI to the kids from me, got back into my pickup and pulled up a bit into my driveway. I'm not always mean to people and wasn't going to worry about little kids or their teacher taking half a bushel of feeder corn that wouldn't be the straw that breaks me finicially. When I go out drinking beer I don't always do it with the intent of punching or back handing some guy off of his bar stool. Sometimes I do, but not usually always.

Mark
 
In the early 1980's I was Buildings and Grounds Supervisor for a local public school district. We had about a hundred 4' pine trees that were letting grow with the intention of replanting at various places around the three campuses in the district.

Every year in early December several trees would be cut off at ground level and stolen for Christmas trees. I said at the time I didn't see how someone could enjoy a Christmas tree they'd stolen from their school district. But, they probably rationalized it by thinking their tax money had paid for the trees so they had a right to do it.
 
We had a woman arrested a while back for a series of breaking and enterings. Would watch a bunch of places and when she found a place not regularly attended, would go the door, knock, and if no answer would break in and grab whatever she could. Got several bows and granddad's deer rifle from place down the road from us. Never did find out what happened when cops tracked her down.
 
(quoted from post at 07:12:26 10/09/16) We had a woman arrested a while back for a series of breaking and enterings. Would watch a bunch of places and when she found a place not regularly attended, would go the door, knock, and if no answer would break in and grab whatever she could. Got several bows and granddad's deer rifle from place down the road from us. Never did find out what happened when cops tracked her down.
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That reminds me of another story this co-worker friend told me. There was a well respected electrician in his area with a distinctive truck. His wife was a kleptomaniac, and before she was found out, she would drive his truck around & do the same thing you're talking about. She'd knock on the door, & if no one was home, she'd go in and help herself of anything that tickled her fancy. Didn't have to break in, because no one locked their doors Usually worthless knick-knacks or decorations, but still stealing. They didn't need money. If a neighbor drove by, they'd see the electricians truck and just assume he was doing work there. She got by with it for years. Even got caught a few times by the owners, but she'd come up with some excuse that she was getting a tool he forgot or something. She went to jail, came back home, and has kept a low profile since. Still married.

Thieves come in all shapes, and steal for all different reasons.
 
Geo,

My own sister tried that... at our place with our renter's crop!! And she was NOT after 6-8 cornstalks either! She wanted enough to do at least 4 good sized shocks - 2 at her home and 2 more at the place she where she worked.

Thankfully we were at home and told her she could not take any unless:

1.) She obtained permission from our land-renter.

2.) A second option that we offered her, was: go ahead and cut some corn stalks - BUT put all the corn ears into five gallon buckets so we can give it to our renter to run through his combine. (We knew our renter would not mind that at all.)

My sister got all arrogant and snarled, "Wellll, I only want it with the ears on the stalk because it LOOKS better. AND I don't think it even matters if I take a few ears!"

I replied, "Well, you can think what you wish to think - but you're not taking the ear corn... that is stealing."

She had the audacity to leave our place ticked off at ME! Really???! Wow!
 
Someone did that in our town many years ago from a church yard. Morons dragged it home through the snow.
 
(quoted from post at 05:26:52 10/09/16) I thought I've seen everything. Yesterday I saw two woman stopped along side the road stealing neighbor's corn. They were cutting the stock at ground level and putting it in the back of a nice looking 4 door pickup. I was going to ask them if they had permission to cut the corn, but they ran off when they saw me coming. Wasn't as if they were poor people.
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When I first started dabbling in produce I had a small corn patch and a pumpkin patch next to it. I had a lady stop in wanting to buy some pumpkins. She wanted 4, so I just took her money and told her to find 4 that she liked. I went back in the house and watched her load at least ten in her truck (had a tonneau cover on it). When she saw me coming out of the house she drove off before I could get to her...later on selling roadside I observed many women who did not know how many ears of corn were in a dozen LOL!
 
I really wouldn't care if someone took a little corn for decorating. Deer do way more damage.

As far as women stealing. More common here for women than men to steal. We had three different women that were entering houses looking for prescription drugs. Two finally overdosed and the third got probation and is now free and at it again.

Was another lady here that was stealing gasoline from storage barrels. She moved to Texas.
 
all she had to do was call the renter and ask nicely ,,.. 99 % would be happy to allow her to make a few shocks ,.. , and most of those same woUld be tikt if they caught anyone taking it without asking 1st ,..it is just common NEIGHBORLY courtesy , THAT WORX BOTH WAYS
 
(quoted from post at 06:02:43 10/09/16) A guy in town always got his garden raided
finally put up a sign saying please wash
produce carefully have just sprayed. No
more stealing but that was a while back now
they would steal it get sick and sue you
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When I was a teen and we live in NJ dad always had a garden and some fruit trees. When stealing became a problem he took a pump up sprayer and made sure most of the neighbors new he was spraying got insects. He actually sprayed only water but stuff stopped going missing.

Thieves come in all shapes, colors and sizes. Women stealing is nothing new. People steeling stuff from farm fields isn't exactly new either. When I worked in retail most of the shop lifters were female and so was most of the employee theft [b:085db6bb9e]that was caught[/b:085db6bb9e]. Most of the shop lifters had more than enough money to pay for whatever they stuffed in a purse or pocketed. I actually watch the surveillance cam so security could get someone. Woman got caught trying to steal a free sample. Watching her on cam left no doubt in my mind that she was intent on stealing something, just the something she grabbed she could have just laid on the counter with the rest of the stuff she paid for. As far as employees, all but one who was caught where I worked were women.

Rick

Rick
 
A researcher slipped a six-pack of soda into a refrigerator at a college dorm, then checked back on it every few hours. Sure enough, the sodas disappeared one at a time. A day later they were all gone.

He then left a twenty dollar bill in the same refrigerator. A day later it was still there. His conclusion: People draw a line between taking something of little value and "stealing". Most people feel that taking even a small amount of money is theft, but don't necessarily feel the same way about taking property. And we're all guilty of this to a degree; if you've ever "accidentally" brought home a Bic pen from the office supply at work, you're technically a thief.
 
(quoted from post at 08:54:38 10/09/16) A researcher slipped a six-pack of soda into a refrigerator at a college dorm, then checked back on it every few hours. Sure enough, the sodas disappeared one at a time. A day later they were all gone.

He then left a twenty dollar bill in the same refrigerator. A day later it was still there. His conclusion: People draw a line between taking something of little value and "stealing". Most people feel that taking even a small amount of money is theft, but don't necessarily feel the same way about taking property. And we're all guilty of this to a degree; if you've ever "accidentally" brought home a Bic pen from the office supply at work, you're technically a thief.
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A college buddy super-glued a quarter on the bannister just inside the door of his lock shop. He said it had a lot of entertainment value!
 
A few years ago I found a guy with a fancy car parked beside my orchard steeling apples. His wife was sitting in the car. He had half a box when I got there. I parked so he couldn't get out. I told him I wanted $20 for the apples. He laughed and said he'd just dump out the apples. After an explanation that that was how I made a living, I quietly told him if he did dump them, I would push his car off the road with my truck. He looked at me wondering if I was serious but pulled out $20 and gave it to me. I told him he may as well fill his box but he quickly got in his car and I let him go. With the mentality of people today, I'm sure not if I'd try that unless I had a gun or can of hornet spray. Then I would be in jail!!!!
Dave
 
I used to have problems with my neighbors stealing fruit off my trees in Hawaii. I had a couple of dogs who did their best to protect them while I was out, but the fruit kept on disappearing on that side of the trees right as they were coming ripe. A couple of times I found their picking poles in my yard, as they'd dropped them and the dogs owned them now. I'd break the poles into little pieces and leave them right where they could see them. I had one tree with an exotic fruit that the Asian people loved. It was ready for picking one day, when a Korean guy in a van stopped and asked me if he could pick some. He picked a bushel off of it, and offered me $10 after telling me they were hard to find a couple minutes earlier. I said give me a $20 and he'd be welcome to come back next week and pick some more. He said he didn't get much for them in his store, and handed me a $10. After he left, I fired up the chainsaw and cut the tree back down to about 6', as I'd done many times before, as it grew like a weed anyway. He came back by the next week, and looked at the tree. I smiled and said "Should've given me $20". :lol:
 
No, it was guyabano, a.k.a. soursop. They eat it for supposed medicinal properties. I didn't eat it, I just cleaned them up when they fell.
 
my neice used to work at a k-mart once a rather LARGE woman was shop lifting and putting clothes on as she did.
she got caught red handed charged out the door and starting throwing clothes off as she ran across parking lot.
when cops got there she was almost naked.
 
I had an office in town, and would buy 2 big fuchsia baskets to hang on both sides of the entrance. About the 2nd year, they were stolen over a weekend. The next year, instead of buying 20 dollar baskets, I bought 8 fuchsia starts for 59 cents apiece, and grew my own. By the time I put them out, they were starting to trail over the side of the basket, but nowhere near impressive-looking enough to attract your average basic thief. By the time they were looking good enough to steal, I figured the thieves would have already decorated their place with someone elses. I must have been right, because I did that for 10 years, and never lost another one.
 

Our local Wally World has a large problem with shoplifters and as a result has a very good surveillance system. The local media publishes the names almost daily and a very large majority of the names are common to our neighbors in a country to the south. Seems to me like it's about 50-50 gender specific.
 
I had an old couple steal my dirt! We were sitting in the yard enjoying a weekend, when a truck drove through my field, to a pile of topsoil. When I got there, she was shoveling my dirt into buckets. She was filling a hole in her yard. By the time I was done ranting, she was almost in tears, and I was filling and loading the buckets. I never saw her again. I hope she told her friends and neighbors.
 
Friday afternoon on her way to Peoria my wife had to stop and get diesel in the pickup. She stopped at a Caseys and put 20 gallon in the tank. The pump read 20 gallon but the dollar amount said 15 cents. She went in to pay and the cashier also said 15 cents. My wife said the total should be $47 and change and was willing to do the right thing and and pay the correct price per gallon but the cashier got snippy with her and said all she owed was 15 cents and that was final!!!
 
A friend of mine often plants a few acres of sunflowers when it gets too late for beans after wheat. He planted a local field in flowers, and they bloomed about the same time the Lions club held a flea market next to the field. One enterprising biddie started venturing over into the field and picking as many as she could stuff into her bag. She then went back to the flea market, bundled them into six flowers with rubber bands and was selling them for $5.....
 
A city near me decided to plant about 2 acres of daffodils(easter flowers). The field never produced many flowers over a couple of years.

Come to find out, the local druggies were digging up the bulbs and selling the at the Flea market.

Now, we have a police person parked 24/7 watching the daffodils so nobody steals them.
 
They stole the Baby Jesus doll out of the nativity scene at our church, proof that there is no low that cannot be under done.
 
How do you expect them to have a complete
nativity scene at their home if they don't
steal the baby Jesus?
 
Something that always makes me shake my head in wonder is hearing, on a fairly frequent basis, that someone has had a nice, expensive floral arrangement removed from a loved one's grave. I have to assume that they in turn place it on the grave of THEIR loved one. I have no way of knowing, but I'm also assuming that most of these thefts are by women. Few men would steal flowers.
 
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