Food theft

[Andy Hunt]

Hadn't spotted that one!

[YogiEdwards]

It had been my belief that the scrunters wouldn't recognise vegetables as food because they don't resemble pizzas or burgers and they have no idea how to cook them, so I thought the idea of marauding gangs stealing your carrots unlikely...obviously I was wrong.

[Erik]

Speaking of potato theft, I read somewhere that once they have grown you can remove the plant and leave the potatoes in the ground for some time, stored underground as it were out of sight from potential thieves.

In fact, with the thieving English around, wasn't this one of the reasons why the Irish ended up growing so many potatoes, as a hideable crop? Until blight and famine struck that is.

[energy-village]

It had been my belief that the scrunters wouldn't recognise vegetables as food because they don't resemble pizzas or burgers and they have no idea how to cook them, so I thought the idea of marauding gangs stealing your carrots unlikely...obviously I was wrong.

Alas though, if it's not nailed down it gets half inched.

Desperate families begin stealing from allotments as they struggle with rising food bills

At the Sandy Lane Allotments in Bushbury, Wolverhampton, two wheelbarrow loads of rhubarb and beetroot were recently stolen ... Allan Rees, chairman of the National Society of Allotments and Leisure Gardeners, said: 'Families are getting poorer and this is one way of putting food on the table.

Allan Rees is being charitable. I doubt anyone is stealing wheelbarrows of rhubarb and beetroot to feed their starving kids; more likely it's just bog standard nicking to flog on:- lead of the roofs, railway cable, crop from the ground.

[Mark]

[b]A small notice on a stick should suffice.
"Five of these lettuces [marrows, tomatoes, whatever] have been injected with an undetectable poison.[/b] Only I know which ones"[/b]

Unfortunately, not so far from the truth......

Home-grown veg ruined by toxic fertiliser:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... griculture