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:mad:This morning I got up early as yesterday me and my mum had been to homebase and bought some new summer bedding plants for the garden.I started planting about half 6, id been planting them just outside the back gate, as id jetwashed the new flags i didnt want them to get dirty, anyway id left 3 packs of violas outside about 7:20 am after going in to make a brew i came back and they had gone i couldnt have been more than a few minutes.Anyway whoever you are i hope your happy, seems nothing is safe these days.My suspicion is its someone out walking there dog, I dont think it will be kids not at that time in the morning.

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Sorry to hear that.

As you say, probably won't be kids.

I just can't imagine the mentality of some people.

What if you'd returned, just as they were walking away with them, what possible explanation could they have given?

Apparently garden theft is quite big business.

Poor Willow's green fingered thieves even came armed with spades, and dug up their ill-gotten gains.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...low-30572.html

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ain-31377.html

I know people who've had their hanging baskets stolen, but luckily it's never happened to me.

Even in London, my window boxes, hanging baskets, and tubs were thankfully never touched.

Apparently a lot of it gets flogged off at car boot sales.

If I was you I'd get some nice little pots of Japanese knotweed cuttings planted up, and leave them out, at about the same time, and let them nick them.

;):D

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There are some barstewards about these days I hope the plants die on them serve um right the thieving gits

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G that is a brilliant idea!

Rob, that is a real bummer and I sympathise. Here in Morecambe I've had large heavy terracotta pots with shrubs in nicked from my front garden, must have needed a vehicle or at least a wheelbarrow to shift them, so not a spur of the moment thing

And please, no cracks about what do you expect if you choose to live in Morecambe!!

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A year or so ago I was working outside on the car and walked into the garage to get something. When I came back a minute later there was a flat back Transit stopped in the road just in front of the car and its occupants were looking at my trolley jack sat on the foot path. A minute later and I am sure they would have had it away. It is an old and very heavy one. I had seen them driving around and was going to give them 4 brake discs and a suspension arm I had replaced to save me getting rid of them ( I know it makes the situation worse ), they went in the wheelie bin instead. Poor mr bin man having to wheel it that time :D

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My best friend Charlotte had her hanging baskets stolen last year -lives on the outskirts of Belfast. She now has them chained and padlocked! I suppose they could unscrew the brackets if they were really keen to nick them again this year...
Shame about your violas - luckily they aren't too expensive.

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G you are such a bad boy :p

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Not sure which is worse, having things nicked or having things dumped. WE live on a quiet private road and people are always dumping things here - TVs, fridges, lumps of concrete and full bin bags etc. The trouble is because it's a private road it doesn't count as fly tipping and the council won't come and remove it.

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I know it just shocked me, it just never even crossed my mind that at that time with it being quiet that someone would do that and jaysay your right i hope they die on them.

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Here we go again, the poor old dog walker getting the blame, why not milkman, paperboy,person passing by, vicar,neighbour. Its a shame that they were stolen, but how does a dog walker carry three packs of violas and be out of sight in a few minutes.

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More like evil, when faced with people with sticky fingers.

When I was at college, everytime I'd been home for the weekend, I'd come back laden with food, including packs of cooked meats.

Each Monday morning I'd put the meat in the fridge, in the shared kitchen.

For months, I'd return in the evening, and my goodies would have gone.

Warning notes, left on the fridge, didn't make a jot of difference.

My Mum's home cooked meats kept disappearing.

Eventually they stopped.

Though only after I doctored the meats with...I'd better not say, and later left a note, telling the thief they'd better go and visit casualty, if they hadn't needed to already.

:D:evil::D

I really would get some Japanese knotweed cuttings planted up.

Nice little pots, in a tray, even with misleading labels in the pots.

What they think they've got for 'free', could cost them thousands, if they are that stupid, as well as being dishonest gits.

:D

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It wont be a milkman as our house is halfway up the back alley and couldnt have seen and the same goes for postman, like i said my suspicion is its some walking there dog that has seen them as the backs back onto each other either way il not find out.I will just be more guarded next time.

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All in all, it's a sorry state when you can't leave something out without it disappearing expensive or not. Suppose it's just a reflection on the erosion of morals & scruples in UK at the present time. How very disappointing. :(

What has been happening on my street over the last couple of years, is that you get up in the morning and find someone has been busy during the night swopping all the hanging baskets around.
It must take a fair bit of effort by the culprit as to reach some of them he must need steps, fortunately though this 'wag' isn't actually stealing them, it doesn't take too long to swop them back.
I wonder what the fine is for illegal flower arranging.

However the first year I put them up I did have a few baskets stolen, fortunately, it hasn't happened since.

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In Italy they say that " Chance makes man a thief" (l'ocassione fà l'uomo ladro)

Unfortunately it's part of human nature, for many, to make a quick profit when the chance arises - from nicking a few violas to more serious things. Often these same people are the ones who have "success" in life and drive around in Ferraris!

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Great, until some toerag lifts it, what goes around comes around. :)

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Wonderfully wicked -think you should start courses for us poor mortals in "RETRIBUTION" :D

Make sure you charge plenty, make it pay all round.

Revenge should be served up cold....:eek::D

(" La vendetta é un piatto che va servita fredda");)

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They have another great saying in Italy: no-one ever nicks anything from a thief -probably translates to something like honour among thieves:rolleyes::D

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you will know who it is by the new display of violas.

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Don't think its honour Di, its more a matter of taking from the wrong people, can you imagine somebody thieving from the Krays,:eek:no me neither:D

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Don't know why people dump these things just leave them outside and they will have them away for you :D

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Not having much luck with the garden at the moment seem like some people think its fun to pull my daffodil heads off out the front.

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I've got two pots of daffs in containers attached to my front fence. The other day I found several had been neatly cut off about three inches above the soil, with their leaves - just enough to fill a small vase or make a posy for Mother's Day. Someone must have come come prepared with a pair of scissors or a knife - or perhaps they always carry one, wouldn't put it past the people round here.

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No, often it's them who do the dumping after they've extracted the useful bits.

Query: the word I wanted to put (the correct spelling of the term Lynx used) was replaced by a row of asterisks - which Neil tells me aren't allowed on here! So what would have happened if I'd left them? I didn't, I replaced them with the word "them". Didn't realise the word was considered to be that offensive.

A most frustrating thing to have happen, I've had toddlers nip in and take a few flowers for their mums in the past, that can be tolerated they weren't being nasty, but when folk deliberatly vandalise your efforts that is too much.

Strangely, my washing machine went terminal on Monday, I put it out in the back yard with the gate open, usually such things vanish within hours, nope this week they must be on holiday, I've still got it.

:(

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www.accringtonweb.com/forum/889309-post17.html


There you go Sue. Personally I don't think it's that bad but it is deemed so on this forum & that's the long & short of it really.

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Thanks Dave, fair enough - but why was it replaced by a row of asterisks when they're not allowed either? :confused:

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The link above posted by Dave explains why we don't allow it. I have removed the word in the above posts.
I would have done it yesterday but was busy changing all 4 brake discs, pads, rear brake caliper and rear suspension springs on my car :mad:

Life gets in the way sometimes :rolleyes:

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Oh come on Neil life as no right too:D

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My daughter saw an old fella filling a carrier bag from one of the planters in the town centre the other sunday, calm as you like, soil and all!:eek:

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If that word is the one i'm thinking about this is getting really pathetic, and also a damn site nearer the mark as the reason some sod off.:rolleyes:

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I seem to remember that someone on this site objected to being described as an elderly lady.

Can't have been me, I'd have felt complimented if I'd been called an elderly slag!

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Have to own up, twas me, because I'm not! (see profile)

Yippee, came home this afternoon, washing machine gone took 5 days, a great deal less fuss than the Council.

Just to be awkward, should I report the loss of a knackered washing machine to the old bill?

I'd get a crime report number then I could claim a new washer on my insurance.

;)

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Less thats daft you've told us all now:D

It's my own fault, 5 days with the yard door open compared with two to three weeks pick up time from the Council, I didn't see these guys, but then, they didn't need a list of EXACTLY, what I needed to get rid of.

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No one cares any more,but that is sad when you only went in for a brew i hope like jay say as wrote i hope they die on them.

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well i must have a better lot of people round here :p.. left a bag of peat on the front on friday night .. and it was still there today ... worse luck .. tho its gone now ... its now on the front garden ...

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Peat's not as pretty as violas - and it's heavier to carry!

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Least its only 3 packs of violas.

They help themselves to lead round my way.

Have you checked your neighbours gardens.:D

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Its a good job it wasn't Pansy's, that would have led onto a lot of double entenders..........which would be shamfull :flower::flower::flower::flower::flower::flower:


just off to buy my some Nipplewort (Lapsana Communis)