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My landscaping was robbed.
I went away for the weekend, left Friday morning and came home around 5 today. Some asshole stole one of my Canna lilies right out the ground in front of my house, leaving the other one behind and throwing my walkway plantings all out of balance. Any homeowners on here ever have plants stolen? It's common out here, landscapers or other homeowners steal shit right off your property. Mine was stolen in broad daylight too (I left at 11, neighbor said he noticed it gone at 4), and I'm on a semi-main road!!!I'm not feeling it.
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Watch your air conditioner too.
My L.I. neighbors were so nosy that kinda shit coulda never gone down.
No, but I'm a renter who's had a pair of Calico Shubunkin stolen because the dude thought they were Koi
That's funny, I live on Smith which turns into Grand when it crosses into Bellmore. I.Greenery is a mile from my house. I know Gene from Island Greenery, he went to high school with my sister. I think he runs one of their trucks. Might ride over there tomorrow.
Delay, cameras are coming soon. I was wrangling the idea anyway before this shit happened but this clinches it.
Deepbrnt, lasers are a good idea too but i got stray cats who come into my flowerbeds and piss every day, they'd set that shit off all the time and I'd be running out with a bat 5 or 6 times a day. You might have been clowning, but whatever. Lasers would be sick.
Sport, I might make a koi pond next year. Someone will probably steal them too.
In the grand scheme of things this is a relatively minor offense, but I was looking forward to this fucking thing blooming for two months and it started to come out on Friday morning when I checked on it before I left. I don't have kids, my family dog lives at my parents house, so these things I plant are the only things I have to care for. I like my fucking plants. Someone BETTER come and try and steal the other one, I'm looking forward to that shit.
Sween,
This shit happened to my sister in law. They plant bamboo in their front lawn and a few months back, got some expensive black bamboo to add to their grove and some MFer ganked them out of their front yard! And this is in Hermosa Beach, which is pretty upscale for L.A.
They now keep all their black bamboo in the backyard.
I like flowers.
On a similar note someone broke off the spark plugs from my motorcycle several days ago. Later someone shoved a screw driver into my ignition only to find that it wouldn't start because it had no spark plugs. Thieves are Frickin' stupid.
Funny, my co-workers cat was stolen recently. We had to front him $300 to buy a new one.
- spidey
Beautiful. Some kind of Iris?
canna lily, stated in the original story.
um, bro. like i had a girlfriend in high school. but thanks for reminding me.
Is this similar to the grown man tree style?
well it usually involves a miniature red bridge and a cement pagoda from home depot. is that grown man trees?
sorry about your flowers sween! i knew you had a sensitive side.
security wise, im tyring to figure out what to do too for the house im working on.
i got robbed blind last wednesday. maybe even an inside job. stole 3 stories of scaffolding, a 30 ft fiberglass ladder, most of the copper pipe in the house,an assortment of supplies and materials, they flooded the first floor and they fucked up my new shower/bath trying to get the fuckin faucets. trying to let it go, but its a difficult exercise.
That really sucks, T*ny. I'm sorry to hear that.
That it could have been an inside job makes it even worse, as it just makes you that much more paranoid and mistrusting. My older sister had an inside job pulled on her primary London house a few years ago. She was away in Italy, and when she came back the house was just ransacked. The thieves made off with all types of shit, including her laptop (on which she had the lone copy of a screenplay she had just finished), and $300,000+ worth of art. The thieves also left a 60" plasma screen TV smashed in the middle of living room. Nothing was ever recovered.
Yeah, that was by far the worst part. It was something she had worked on for close to 2 years. She was gutted. Everything else, other than one painting her friend had done especially for her, was (more or less) replaceable. The police estimated the robbers had actually come back on several consecutive evenings. Makes me kind of ill to think about.
i say for vengeance, we catch sweeen's flower bandits and burn them at the stake.
That sounds fair. Other strutters with pent-up rage are welcome to join.
B'lieve those were crackheads. I had an old BMW (R60/5) years ago and someone stole my spark plugs, too. I went to a bike shop in the 'Loin to get some replacement plugs and they said, "Oh yeah...crackheads steal plugs all the time and use 'em as pipes."