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Old 08-24-2009, 06:35 PM   #201 (permalink)
 
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No worries.... your 1 remaining Basjoo will surely pup soon enough, and you'll be able to laugh at the thieves who probably can't even identify it! LOL! If you see it planted out in the yard in your climate, you can bet it is yours. (This is the part where I would advocate "stealing it back".)
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Sorry HBL, I just have to. I hate smoking and everything that makes us, non-smoker, shorten our lives.
The topic of this thread should be: Something, somthin, something... Musa basjoo in London, Ontario, Canada.

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What a gas!


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As stunned and bewildered as I am to have to tell you all this - the nightmare has happened again!!!


I went to the grocery store early this evening and my last basjoo banana plant was stolen right out from under our windows in broad daylight!!!


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Totally obvious now that it is in fact someone in the buliding beside ours that watched for me to leave. I am shocked that they did it in the daytime. They didn't take all of my plants this time but they got the best one, and the pot it was in was real expensive.


The good news is, I know who is responsible and the Police will be on their doorstep first thing in the morning!!! They were too busy to come tonight so an officer will be here tomorrow morning. I am not going to take this lying down.


Someone offered to mail me a basjoo last week, so I won't be totally without thankfully, but it's not the point. I am going to have to change how I do gardening here and put everything directly in the earth - no more nice pots for low-lives to steal. I am so crushed that this happened to me again in such a short span of time.


I should have known better this time - it's my fault.


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This is just wrong. At least the cops will be able to check things out - possibly even get a warrant to search the place - and the plant I sent you is on the way as well...
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Thank you Zac! It IS very wrong and it is nearly getting the best of me. I just can't believe the audacity to do it in broad daylight!


I guess I highly underestimated them. In the morning though, they'll come to find out that they highly underestimated me as well! I think it is the company of these low-life losers in the building beside ours and I got the license plates of several suspicious and shady charachters to give to the cops in the morning.


Calling the Police makes me feel like I am not a victim, and that I am doing something about it. I will no longer be leaving anything in pots outside, unfortunately. I just cannot have this keep happening. I am really crushed over it.

Bob's new plants are the only things helping me right now, not to fully lose heart. Thank you, Bob!


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How early are the police arriving? Do they require a warrant of any kind in Canada to search someone's home?

I'd feel better too with some fancy new plants sent by a friend, especially that perfect plumeria.
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They're coming at 9am, so I am off to bed now. Yes, they will need a warrant, but not to go to some of the houses belonging to the license plates I collected and have a look around outside. Maybe my plants are sitting on someone's patio out in the open. We'll see...


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It's curious how the biggest challange, when you want to grow basjoo in Canada, are thieves and not the cold winter. I'm so surprised they did it again and more to that, how obviously they wanted only banana this time (thus maybe even the first time, but other plants were just a manoeuvre).

Wish you good luck with that and hope that the policemen will shackle the thieves to central heating unit and give them hell of a beating with service sap (that's what police does here with thieves, when they steal too little to be trialed or reported for).

Stealing is a problem everywhere though (maybe except Arabic countries), but plant stealing is just sick.
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Old 09-06-2009, 07:49 AM   #210 (permalink)
 
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Maby your nightmair was a forseen of what was going to happen...


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your last basjoo... now gon... maby the poliece will find all the plants.
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Hollyberry Lady this theft is most certainly NOT your fault!!!!

I know that here in San Antonio Texas there are theives that go into people's yards and steal expensive plants. They're known as "landscape rustlers" or "plant rustlers" and there's nothing funny about it. Billions of dollars are lost to these animals.

If there is any way at all to lock your garden up, borrow a friends large dog or get a shock fence and install it. The shock fence not only keeps animals in, it keeps animals out.

My plants are in 18 gallon muck buckets, to ugly for the "average" theif, but it's filled with a topsoil mix that would break a thief's back.

Here's an idea: If you are allowed to put up flyers or take out a public service announcement in the local paper, make it clear that there are theives in the area who are burglarizing property. (you don't have to say they steal plants.) Ask everyone to keep their eyes open, and if they see anything or anyone suspicious, to call the police and to take pictures with their cell phones or cameras if it's safe. You don't have to say who you think is doing it.

Many years ago I worked two jobs after being left destitute after a divorce. At my night job, there was a thief who routinely stole people's food out of the frig. Management did nothing but put a sign on the frig saying "don't steal." People on my shift were the most hit- we were putting our food in just as the 2nd shift was going home. One night was just too much- so I took a piece of paper and with my left hand I wrote a note telling the thief that I hoped they were ok because I had been feeling sick for a while and had sores in my mouth and throat (I didn't, of course but the thief didn't know that). I didn't sign it, and left it in the locker room. The next few days were histerically funny (for us)- management wanted to know WHO wrote the note because they wanted to fire the person (not the thief), several people on 2nd shift were complaining they had big doctor's bills (I wondered why, hee hee), and no food was stolen for months. Of course, no one on my shift had any idea who put the note up (they bought me sodas for a month).

The flyer will let the thieves know people are aware and watching. And a visit from the police followed up by the flyer will serve as an annoucement to all theives that they won't be tolerated.

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I'm really proud of you for holding your composure. At this point, I'd be walking to their door with a shotgun and an angry Bulldog.

Surely people who steal plants have no lives (especially if they are watching your house waiting for you to leave!). Therefore, I wouldn't be afraid of any retaliation when you have those 2 things to defend you. (LOL).
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Thank you everyone. Don't know what I'd do without all of your support. It sure does help me.

The Police came this morning and are on the case. They are going to check out the license plates that I collected and see if they can find my plant/s for me. I was told they'd be in touch. They totally agree that it was someone in the area, who is watching and waiting for their opportunity.

I had a friend who had their bar-b-que stolen and the Police found it two weeks later, so I am not giving up hope yet. In the meantime, there are no more potted plants outside - they're all in the foyer until I decide what to do.


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Obviously I can no longer put out potted plants - something I've been doing for three years now here, with no problems or thievery. This is not going to get the best of me, but it really has depressed me and left me with an awful feeling. I did have a nightmare earlier last week that it happened a 2nd time, but I just thought it was because of the first time. Now the nightmare has come true!!!

Just gonna leave it to with the Police and see what happens. Thanks again guys for your support, tips, and advice. I am just going to go have a nap and lick my wounds - not feeling too well today. Don't worry - I'll be ok.

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:O they found a stolen item two weeks later?! Cops here don't care enough...
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When u get them back, plant them in the ground...If I can grow them here in Northeast Central Michigan-Gladwin....u can grow them in the ground there!



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Today's words of hope from Taylor: When I was little, I got a totally awesome Mongoose bike for Christmas. A few weeks after Christmas, it was stolen. We checked local pawn shops, neighbor's yards, but had no luck. After about 2 months, the bike was tossed into our yard rusty, paint chipped off, and plastic chain cover broken. Nonetheless, I did get it back.

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This is not over yet. I could very well find them, or the cops could too. Oh yes, sometimes the Police need time to put to put it together, but they may get more reports of stolen plants and with people's tips they can find stuff - even if it's weeks later.

Everything they have taken from me, is now replaced. Right down to my Basjoo. I am going out today, for another bike ride around the neighbourhood, to have me a look around. Those plants and my gorgeous pots will stand out like sore thumbs, if they're stupid enough to leave them out...


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P.S. They were idiotic enough to come back a 2nd time and risk being seen in broad daylight, indicating that brain cells are few and far between, so I wouldn't doubt that they would be brazen enough to leave them out in plain view...
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Definately get the flyers out. The fact that the police have come out, plus the flyers getting everyone to keep their eyes peeled for burglars and people vandalizing property (that's all it has to mention) will make it clear to them that this is not going to be tolerated.

I'm glad everything's been replaced, but the point is to recover the stolen property and prosecute the thieves.

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