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Reply Wed 13 Sep, 2006 08:21 am
When I went outside to retrieve my newspaper this morning, I discovered that my beautiful large verdigre wrought iron and wooden bench has been stolen from my front yard last night.

My dogs, Dolly and Madison, barked like crazy about midnight last night. When I looked outside, I saw two figures on the sidewalk, but didn't go outside to investigate.

The bench had been in that spot in my front garden for nearly three years. I probably won't replace it and will miss having a place to sit.

BBB
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lezzles
 
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Reply Wed 13 Sep, 2006 08:39 am
Hope they sit on it, cop a splinter in the bum and it turns septic! What scum! Mad
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material girl
 
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Reply Wed 13 Sep, 2006 08:57 am
Thats horrid Bumble!!I wish the theieves nothing but bad luck.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 13 Sep, 2006 08:58 am
I had a wicker "sofa" stolen from my front porch in California. That was aggravating, all right, but not as aggravating as that someone on another occasion stole the unusual concrete sculpture I had sitting on a ledge of the porch. It was of a Pug Dog, very cute, and quite the heavy piece of work. A friend had given it to me and I'd brought it with me on my move from one end of the state to the other. Grrrrrrr.

People used to steal my hydrangea blossoms too. I thought it was to sell, as there is a fairly avid market for dried hydrageas, but one of the local landscape contractors told me he hoped I didn't mind, he cut them for his girlfriend......
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 13 Sep, 2006 08:59 am
The thing with your bench, BBB, is that someone would have had to have a truck..
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eoe
 
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Reply Wed 13 Sep, 2006 09:04 am
Sorry about the thefts. That stinks.

My desktop computer has been locking up on me alot these last few days. It did it again this morning, several times, and I'm finally running diagnostics on it as we speak (I'm posting from the laptop).

I've been getting alot of spam lately. That what makes me angry.
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jpinMilwaukee
 
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Reply Wed 13 Sep, 2006 09:08 am
ossobuco wrote:
People used to steal my hydrangea blossoms too. I thought it was to sell, as there is a fairly avid market for dried hydrageas, but one of the local landscape contractors told me he hoped I didn't mind, he cut them for his girlfriend......


So did you mind and fire him?
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 13 Sep, 2006 09:17 am
I never hired him - as a landarch we give clients names of contractors who have worked out well for past clients. I actually liked him, but thought he lost a synapse or two when he had done that. Think it related to some giant fight and effort to get back with his girlfriend - probably a late night foray involving booze and oh, look, I'll pick some flowers. He was a good contractor, especially important as there were hardly any who weren't pisspoor in my old area.

I think by that time he was working in conjunction with a hardware store/nursery and the matter of putting him on a good contractor list didn't come up after that.
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shewolfnm
 
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Reply Wed 13 Sep, 2006 09:30 am
What a bunch of arrogant a-sholes.

Yeah, they WOULD have needed a truck.
And that just blows my mind.

Im sorry BBB . Sad


F-n jerk wads
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BumbleBeeBoogie
 
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Reply Wed 13 Sep, 2006 09:54 am
BBB
As rotten a deed as it was, it could have been worse. The police report person said I was lucky they didn't steal all of my front landscape. Apparently, there a landscapers that save money by stealing plants instead of buying them.

When I bought the house, I removed the gravel and cactus and installed lots of evergreen plant materials that would look good year-around and not require a lot of water. My front yard is beautiful and very different from most surrounding front landscape, which is largely gravel.

BBB
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Thu 14 Sep, 2006 04:37 am
Sorry to hear about your bench, Ms Bee. Garden theft (especially from front gardens) is getting quite a craze over here in the London area, and now everyone is trying to find various ways of bolting everything down.

Bloody shame.

Glad to hear that they didn't harm you physically, though.
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