RE: garden theft
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: garden theft
- From: S* S*
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:55:17 -0700
Bill, it's more than just not "knowing" someone owned property. I think
they don't care, either. I live on a city lot, which OBVIOUSLY someone owns
and I have had adults and teenagers (small children too, but sometimes too
young to know better) come by and literally rip plants from the fence line.
When you call them on it, they all get "huffy" as you say, which to me is a
sure sign that they know they are doing the wrong thing. Otherwise they'd
be apologetic, if they truly didn't understand and had just become
enlightened.
It makes you wonder how we're to live in this world when people have so
little or no respect for others and their property.
Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is a little old fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter
I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blee811@aol.com [B*@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 4:02 PM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: garden theft
>
>
> A couple of months ago, I came home driving along my wooded
> country lane to
> find a woman climbing up the hillside with a box full of
> bloodroot she had
> dug up out of my woods. Her little boy (may 6-7 years old)
> was accompanying
> her. I informed her that she was on private property and
> that she didn't
> have my permission to dig up the plants.
>
> She offered to put them back but I told her since they were
> so hard to
> transplant there was no point.
>
> My parting shot was to say, "And you're teaching your son to
> steal, too."
> She got huffy and trudged up the hill.
>
> There's an amazing lack of respect for private property
> around my area.
> People, young ones especially, frequently reply "I didn't
> know anyone owned
> this." Can you imagine?
> Bill Lee
> Outside Cincinnati
>
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