F___ YOU TOO

[Racket_Man]

Someone stole one of my BRAND NEW potted roses from my front lawn last night during the wee hours of the morning.

()^&*&**(%&(&*^&*^&*^&( I guess someone wanted a really cheap and easy Mother's Days present for their Mother.

[BearLeeBadenaugh]

This sort of thing makes me want to make some sort of insert that would go into the potting soil, where it wouldn't be found unless you repot the plant. Make it metal, Aluminium or Copper, probably, and then emboss a message along the lines of "We hope you enjoyed your stolen plant".

Imagine the trouble sonny-boy would be in when mommy dearest discovers he stole her lovely present?

[MoonCat]

This sort of thing makes me want to make some sort of insert that would go into the potting soil, where it wouldn't be found unless you repot the plant. Make it metal, Aluminium or Copper, probably, and then emboss a message along the lines of "We hope you enjoyed your stolen plant".

Imagine the trouble sonny-boy would be in when mommy dearest discovers he stole her lovely present?

Not certain she would care...with some people this kind of thing is a way of life. But this is why I don't want to put potted plants where anyone can reach them. We've had a couple of small decorative items stolen from our back yard so now most of our plants are on the upstairs porch.

[XCashier]

Doesn't even matter if they're potted or planted into the ground. Back when we lived in Phoenix, someone cut all the roses off my rosebushes. One day they were all blooming, the next, nothing but broken and cut stems where the flowers used to be.

[MoonCat]

Doesn't even matter if they're potted or planted into the ground. Back when we lived in Phoenix, someone cut all the roses off my rosebushes. One day they were all blooming, the next, nothing but broken and cut stems where the flowers used to be.

I don't know why I'm surprised, though. There's a big park in town with a rose garden that's always been a major thing here. One year, cops caught a couple (who were in their 60's!) who had just dug up a rose bush out of that garden. They were caught with the stolen bush, shovels, etc., in their car.

[darkroxas45]

Someone stole a burlap covered fox decoration from under my window one night so we bought another, changed where my decorations went, and locked it to a stake in the ground.

[wolfie]

Doesn't even matter if they're potted or planted into the ground. Back when we lived in Phoenix, someone cut all the roses off my rosebushes. One day they were all blooming, the next, nothing but broken and cut stems where the flowers used to be.

Any idea where to obtain 20 gauge stainless tie wire that's been coloured the same shade of green as rose stems? Wrap it around the stems, and maybe the "Hey - free roses for my girlfriend" person won't see it until they've ruined their cutters.

I've heard that some highway departments spray newly-planted evergreens with a substance that's basically liquefied shit. In cold weather, at the side of the road, it's not noticeable. Someone decides to cut one for a Christmas tree, brings it inside where it's warm, and the scent becomes overpowering.

[WishfulSpirit]

I've read of people writing "stolen from the grave of...." on flags they put on tombstones. It seems to work.

[XCashier]

Any idea where to obtain 20 gauge stainless tie wire that's been coloured the same shade of green as rose stems? Wrap it around the stems, and maybe the "Hey - free roses for my girlfriend" person won't see it until they've ruined their cutters.

I know we have green floral wire at my place of work, but I don't know what gauge it is. We no longer live there, but if we ever do get a house, I'll definitely keep that in mind. Or probably just put some sort of fence around the front yard.

[Cia]

I've had Halloween luminarias stolen from my front walk. I guess someone really needed orange paperbags with bats and ghosts cut out of them, black fish gravel and battery operated candles.

[Kittish]

Any idea where to obtain 20 gauge stainless tie wire that's been coloured the same shade of green as rose stems?

20 gauge isn't heavy enough to ruin a set of cutters (ordinary scissors can cope with it, with care). You'd want 12, or maybe even 10 gauge if you can get it. Most florist shops I've been in and worked at carried green colored wire in sizes from 24 gauge to usually around 8 gauge. 8 is seriously heavy wire, hard even to bend by hand.

[TheSHAD0W]

20 gauge isn't heavy enough to ruin a set of cutters (ordinary scissors can cope with it, with care). You'd want 12, or maybe even 10 gauge if you can get it.

Tractor Supply has 9 gauge steel "stretching" wire. I don't know if you'd want to spend money on it *just* to protect your roses, but it can come in useful for other things as well.

[Valentinian]

Some dipshit dug a clump of Australian bluebells out of my front yard last year - and when I say 'dug' I mean they have to have brought a shovel or something.