Who the heck steals shrubbery?

[OLDNEWBIE]

Got ripped off yesterday evening or last night
Some jerk(s) ripped out some of my newly planted shrubs like pulling out carrots from the garden!

Started a hedge behind my back fence along the sidewalk and road (Public Space really) they got 4 0r 5. I entwined cut blackberry vines around what I got left so if the S.O.Bs come back the will get stuck anyway.

I'm in Springfield Near Value Village. Anybody heard of shrub thieves before? How low can you go???

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[mrblond]

Ni!

 

[U201491]

Landscapers

 

[ZA_Survivalist]

Jim Carry is at it again!!!

 

[Stomper]

Those "shrubs" didn't happen to look like "tomato plants" with no tomato fruit did they?

 

[Goosebrown]

Ni!

 

[OLDNEWBIE]

Maybe I planted triffids by mistake but they looked like Leyland cypress and ligustrums.

 

[Stomper]

Wow... that'll make 'em hack their GUTS out when they try to smoke THAT!

 

[Nick Burkhardt]

The same people who steal used toilets from bank repo houses.

 

[Stomper]

The same people who steal used toilets from bank repo houses.

Hey, everyone dreams of having their own throne.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

If its worth a nickel some wired up looser will steal it!

 

[Stomper]

Then it's a good thing a nickel ain't really worth a nickel these days!

 

[OLDNEWBIE]

Transients frequent that road between the River/ bike path where they live and the Dairy Mart where they get malt liquor and cigs.
Tried to think up a scenario where they'd grab them but not seeing it. They don't own homes and don't hang with people who do?

I'm thinking scummy boyfriend of lowlife woman who was left a rundown house she obtained from outliving her parents?
He decided to do a little fixing up her yard in exchange for living there??? Maybe she paid him in good faith to pick up some plants??

Grandma pays lowlife grandkid to buy and plant a few bushes? He buys meth instead and grabs my plants?

Who knows?, if they come back tonight I hope they bleed good from the blackberry thorns anyway!

 

[U201491]

Put Prussian blue all over them and then watch for purple / blue people. LOL

 

[etrain16]

Landscapers

I think Taku nailed it on the head. I knew a guy who worked for a nursery and theft of various plants was common - often by landscapers trying to save a buck. At the time, picking off small Japanese maples was a regular occurrence, both for the nursery and their customers.

But as others have noted, there is also the consideration of the demands of certain 3-headed knights...

 

[Stomper]

Huh?

 

[OLDNEWBIE]

Huh?

 

[giddyupgo55]

When I worked for the state we would have people steal plants from the rest areas.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Someone is stealing my socks.. diabolically slowly.

 

[solv3nt]

Someone is stealing my socks.. diabolically slowly.

Do you have a male teenager?