Re: Sunken Gardens now crime/stealing

Just another good reason for not living in large urbanized areas with
high crime rates...even in Iowa City/Coralville area, combined
population of greater than 80,000 nurseries leave their stock sitting
out unattended the entire season and I've yet to hear of any serious
trend of thievery...once in an incredibly rare while but not enough to
cause any of them to lock their stuff up. Of course we have less than
one murder a year around here, too and maybe a couple of bank
robberies...a lot of college kids being arrested for public intoxication
and bad check writing, the occasional fight in a downtown bar...a couple
of years ago we had some trouble with gangs wanting to relocate from
elsewhere to this area and it was made pretty uncomfortable for them and
thier families to be here, so they just kind of went elsewhere...those
kinds of behaviors just aren't tolerated in a smaller community at
all...neither is stealing...unless of course you are a member of one of
the University's elite athletic teams and then pretty much anything
goes. :-(


Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Sun 03/28, Marge Talt < mtalt@hort.net > wrote:
From: Marge Talt [mailto: mtalt@hort.net]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 20:39:12 -0500
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Sunken Gardens

> From: Donna <justme@prairieinet.net><br>> <br>> We also loose many
plants yearly too. Seems folks think that since<br>it is<br>> a public
place, they are welcome to anything :( Some day I will<br>catch<br>>
someone doing this and they will get fined!
<br>----------<br><br>Totally amazes me what people will do. Seems like
they will take<br>anything not nailed down. I was told a story about a
guy who had a<br>nursery; his house was on the property and he had a
private garden<br>around the house. One day a couple drove up into his
garden and<br>started digging up plants - their excuse...well, it is a
nursery. <br>Amazing. Public gardens all over had tremendous problems
with people<br>stealing plants. And it's often really rare things that
are taken -<br>and have to be taken by someone who knows what they are
and how rare<br>they are and that really astounds me. It's one thing (I
guess) for<br>ignorant folks to take something that appeals to them, but
for a<br>serious plant person to take a rare plant from a
botanical<br>garden....sheesh!<br><br>If you do catch someone in the
act, will they actually survive long<br>enough for you to fine them?
;-><br><br>Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland<br>mtalt@hort.net<br>Editor:
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