RE: garden theft

Anyone that is taking 50' feet worth of lilac blooms has other intentions
than personal "innocent" use.  I hope the homeowner was able to press
charges of some sort.

Reminds me of a story Ann Lovejoy has in one of her books about two old
ladies systematically denuding her old lilacs and when caught, responding,
"But honey, you have so many flowers and we live in an apartment and don't
have any!"

I have seen neighbor kids (old enough to know better) having full arms of a
bouquet after canvassing the neighborhood, "for their mom."  At the point
your child brings you these stolen flowers I can't believe parents don't see
this as a time to teach them about not taking things that don't belong to
us!

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: Jeaa1224@aol.com [J*@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 8:26 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: garden theft
> 
> 
> Here's another example:
> 
> As I was driving along a busy street one day, I passed the 
> home of an older 
> couple
> whom I've known for years. They have a stockade fence which 
> spans probably 
> 250 feet along the road to buffer the traffic from their 
> house and along this 
> fence is a dense row of old-fashioned mature lilacs. Noticing 
> a car parked 
> along the shoulder,
> I looked along the fence to see someone systematically 
> snipping furiously, 
> and she
> had removed all of the lovely blooms from a stretch of about 
> 50 feet at that 
> point, and
> in the full light of day and with dozens of witnesses 
> whizzing by each 
> minute. I called the owner and she shrieked in anger and 
> hastily says it 
> happened every year then dashed out to save what was left. 
> 
> Why do people think that  anything they can swipe is fair 
> game? I'd be 
> willing to bet that the woman taking the lilacs would not 
> consider herself 
> stealing.
> 
> Disgusted in Illinois, Joanie
> 
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