[Highland Park] Strange plant coincidences
I just found out that a neighbor had a plant stolen from her porch the other day. Unfair and unfortunate, but usually unremarkable. Except for this. Two weeks ago, a plant was stolen, _from out of the ground_, in our front yard. Another neighbor told me that a few years ago, there was a rash of plant theft in the neighborhood. She didn't believe that the perpetrators were ever caught. Strange plant coincidences, that I thought I would pass on to the group. dps
Odd little pranks and vandalism occurring in the Heberton/Jackson area lately.... Earlier this fall, I walked out on my front porch one morning to find a solar-powered "walkway" light planted in the middle of my front yard. It belonged to a neighbor a few houses down. Over the next week or so, several more of his lights were taken. A week ago we discovered that someone had moved a large planter from the wall next to our driveway to the path between our garage and our neighbor's garage. We couldn't tell if it was merely a prank or if someone was intent upon stealing it but found it too heavy to carry any further. Bored kids? --On Monday, September 19, 2005 4.31 p -0400 "Sweeney, Dan" <Dan.Sweeney@dynavoxtech.com> wrote:
I just found out that a neighbor had a plant stolen from her porch the other day. Unfair and unfortunate, but usually unremarkable. Except for this. Two weeks ago, a plant was stolen, _from out of the ground_, in our front yard. Another neighbor told me that a few years ago, there was a rash of plant theft in the neighborhood. She didn't believe that the perpetrators were ever caught.
Strange plant coincidences, that I thought I would pass on to the group.
dps
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Digging up an azalea bush, roots and all, seems to me not to be the work of bored kids. If I had found it discarded in the alley, or just pulled out, maybe I'd think that. But there were several plants and they picked the one they liked, dug it up carefully getting all the roots, and carted it off. But that's just my take on it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan J Martin" <djmartin@cmu.edu> To: <neighborhood@highlandpark.pgh.pa.us> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:40 AM Subject: Re: [Highland Park] Strange plant coincidences
Odd little pranks and vandalism occurring in the Heberton/Jackson area lately....
Earlier this fall, I walked out on my front porch one morning to find a solar-powered "walkway" light planted in the middle of my front yard. It belonged to a neighbor a few houses down. Over the next week or so, several more of his lights were taken.
A week ago we discovered that someone had moved a large planter from the wall next to our driveway to the path between our garage and our neighbor's garage. We couldn't tell if it was merely a prank or if someone was intent upon stealing it but found it too heavy to carry any further.
Bored kids?
--On Monday, September 19, 2005 4.31 p -0400 "Sweeney, Dan" <Dan.Sweeney@dynavoxtech.com> wrote:
I just found out that a neighbor had a plant stolen from her porch the other day. Unfair and unfortunate, but usually unremarkable. Except for this. Two weeks ago, a plant was stolen, _from out of the ground_, in our front yard. Another neighbor told me that a few years ago, there was a rash of plant theft in the neighborhood. She didn't believe that the perpetrators were ever caught.
Strange plant coincidences, that I thought I would pass on to the group.
dps
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Speaking of strange thefts, the gutter downspout was stolen off our garage. Has anyone else had a problem like this? Is perhaps the cost of recycled metal high enough to make this a profitable crime? It seemed awfully weird to us. Michelle Butler Sweeney, Dan wrote:
I just found out that a neighbor had a plant stolen from her porch the other day. Unfair and unfortunate, but usually unremarkable. Except for this. Two weeks ago, a plant was stolen, _from out of the ground_, in our front yard. Another neighbor told me that a few years ago, there was a rash of plant theft in the neighborhood. She didn't believe that the perpetrators were ever caught.
Strange plant coincidences, that I thought I would pass on to the group.
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Dan J Martin
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Michelle Butler
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Sweeney, Dan
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Valerie Sweeney