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Roxy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Peak District
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Stolen plums!!
« on: September 15, 2014, 04:21:13 pm »
My friend is fuming.  She picked a big dish full of Victoria plums from her fenced orchard in the corner of the field the other day.  A couple of days later she went to get the plums off both trees.  A heavy crop this year.  Someone had beaten her to it.  Both trees empty, not one single plum left.  Someone had shaken the tree and then filled their basket.  There is a footpath in the corner of the field, and someone had been keeping an eye on the plums .....

While on the subject of theft.  The haulage yard where my husband works has had the diesel taken from every truck this week.  A few hundred pounds to fill those big tanks up again.

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
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Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2014, 05:02:54 pm »
Time you were independent, Roxy  :roflanim: - to improve economic levels!  Folk struggling to survive i reckon. :'(
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2014, 05:16:58 pm »
If the orchard didn't have any house nearby and maybe looked a bit abandoned/wild, I would have been in like a shot too and harvested plums...

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2014, 09:52:33 pm »
They couldn't pretend they thought the diesel was abandoned though. I thought modern vehicles had something to stop anyone from syphoning off fuel?

Roxy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Peak District
    • festivalcarriages.co.uk
Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2014, 11:13:12 pm »
Orchard is alongside the house, and there are ponies in the field - its a local person, and they do have a suspicion of who it is.

As to the diesel - I am not very technical on these things, but it seems the tanks had a lock on, which quite often the thief will break off.  Nowadays, they can get in another way, and syphon the fuel away with an electric pump.  Must have been a few lads to carry the heavy drums.  A while ago a lorry driver arrived in the early hours of the morning, and caught some men red handed.  They drove away so fast, they forgot to close the side door on their van, and all the tubs fell out.  So no fuel!!

kelly58

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • Highlands, Scotland
  • Home is were my animals are.
Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2014, 11:19:59 pm »
Sign of the times ! Aint gonna get any better  :(

doganjo

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Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2014, 12:02:54 am »
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Sign of the times ! Aint gonna get any better 
It will up here  :excited:
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
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Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2014, 12:46:41 am »
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Sign of the times ! Aint gonna get any better 
It will up here  :excited:

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Steph Hen

  • Joined Jul 2013
  • Angus Scotland.
Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2014, 07:19:26 am »
I think it's funny where to draw the line with whats theft and what's not. Used to go blackberrying with parents on a Sunday afternoon walk. But now I feel hard done by if someone's taken the brambles, raspberries, picked the flowers or lifted logs from the field margins and end of the lane.
Just because it's not next to a house doesn't mean it's not owned and wanted. But then if it's not bolted down it seems it's fair game..?

mowhaugh

  • Joined Jul 2013
  • Scottish Borders
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Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #9 on: September 16, 2014, 07:47:28 am »
I think someone has been at my plums/apples too - I am not SURE any have gone, but the gate was tied up completely differently - I just hope that is someone has been in, the reason they didn't take many was that they got a HUGE fright at the sudden appearance of Large Black pigs hoping for an ear scratch - the sows would look quite intimidating if you weren't expecting them!

doganjo

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Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #10 on: September 16, 2014, 12:18:40 pm »
Wish we had a like button, the vision of pigs appearing while kids are scrumping raised a laugh! :roflanim:
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2014, 05:44:58 pm »
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Sign of the times ! Aint gonna get any better 
It will up here  :excited:

HOW?

Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #12 on: September 16, 2014, 06:00:16 pm »
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Sign of the times ! Aint gonna get any better 
It will up here  :excited:

HOW?
I'd like to know that too!
Anne

Steph Hen

  • Joined Jul 2013
  • Angus Scotland.
Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #13 on: September 16, 2014, 07:17:01 pm »
  :idea: Independence will fix everything?
 Very Exciting times  :thumbsup:

doganjo

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Re: Stolen plums!!
« Reply #14 on: September 16, 2014, 07:41:26 pm »
 :thumbsup: :excited:
  :idea: Independence will fix everything?
 Very Exciting times  :thumbsup:
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

 

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