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I was reading Yfandes encounter here and was going to post the following similar story on that thread but as I wrote it out it got long and I didn't want to seem like I was hijacking Yfandes thread so I made this one. Hope that's okay and I hope this is in the correct sub-forum.
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My mother's house sits on 2.5 acres and on the corner of two roads. The backyard actually borders the roads. She plants a HUGE garden every year back there ever since I was born. Everything from all American tomatoes and melons to southeast Asian plants like lemon grass and a type of Vietnamese banana tree called chuoi xiem. She even plants things she doesn't like to eat but does so because she likes to see if she can grow them. She gives away the unwanted stuff to family, friends and neighbors. My mom just likes to grow things.
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Well, a few years ago some Real Estate Agent was out in the area with clients or friends or fellow agents. We never found out exactly who they were but they were driving a marked company car for a Realtor. Anyhow, the idiots drove by, apparently saw my mother's garden and just stopped, got out of their car and just basically raped her garden. Picking everything they could, ripe or unripe and even so far as to uproot whole plants to take with them. They even knocked down one of the banana trees to get to the VERY unripe bananas. My younger brother happen to be home at the time said he heard mom scream bloody murder and saw her run out of the house with the broom (shes Vietnamese and 4'10" and is a master at broom-fu)(I'm not joking!).
The idiots first try to claim they thought her garden was wild and on public land, then try to say they thought it was abandon (ya like the mowed grass around it was wildly growing and abandon too, along with the water hose leading from the freaking house). After they realized their "mistake" instead of paying for damages, they wanted some of the stuff they helped themselves to! Claiming there was plenty for everybody! My mom got so angry that she reverted to Vietnamese and my brother had to translate....
Mom in Vietnamese: [censored due to fear of being banned from CS]
Brother: She said that's not the point. You ruined her garden.
Mom in Vietnamese: THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID! SAY WHAT I SAID!
Brother: She said to leave now or she's calling the police.
Mom in Vietnamese: THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID!
Brother: She wants you to leave now.
In the end, the idiots left everything they took and drove off. My brother later told me they acted like it wasn't a big deal at what they had done and that mom refused to speak to him for the rest of the day.
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My mother's house sits on 2.5 acres and on the corner of two roads. The backyard actually borders the roads. She plants a HUGE garden every year back there ever since I was born. Everything from all American tomatoes and melons to southeast Asian plants like lemon grass and a type of Vietnamese banana tree called chuoi xiem. She even plants things she doesn't like to eat but does so because she likes to see if she can grow them. She gives away the unwanted stuff to family, friends and neighbors. My mom just likes to grow things.
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Well, a few years ago some Real Estate Agent was out in the area with clients or friends or fellow agents. We never found out exactly who they were but they were driving a marked company car for a Realtor. Anyhow, the idiots drove by, apparently saw my mother's garden and just stopped, got out of their car and just basically raped her garden. Picking everything they could, ripe or unripe and even so far as to uproot whole plants to take with them. They even knocked down one of the banana trees to get to the VERY unripe bananas. My younger brother happen to be home at the time said he heard mom scream bloody murder and saw her run out of the house with the broom (shes Vietnamese and 4'10" and is a master at broom-fu)(I'm not joking!).
The idiots first try to claim they thought her garden was wild and on public land, then try to say they thought it was abandon (ya like the mowed grass around it was wildly growing and abandon too, along with the water hose leading from the freaking house). After they realized their "mistake" instead of paying for damages, they wanted some of the stuff they helped themselves to! Claiming there was plenty for everybody! My mom got so angry that she reverted to Vietnamese and my brother had to translate....
Mom in Vietnamese: [censored due to fear of being banned from CS]
Brother: She said that's not the point. You ruined her garden.
Mom in Vietnamese: THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID! SAY WHAT I SAID!
Brother: She said to leave now or she's calling the police.
Mom in Vietnamese: THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID!
Brother: She wants you to leave now.
In the end, the idiots left everything they took and drove off. My brother later told me they acted like it wasn't a big deal at what they had done and that mom refused to speak to him for the rest of the day.
and mom DID cook him some of his favorite dishes to take to work for lunch to make up for using Broom Fu on him after the people left. 
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