WTF, someone stole one of the plants from our front yard

No, we didn't lose it. Pretty sure it didn't wander away.

A little while back, we bought a new mailbox. The old was getting a little beat-up. What to do with the old one? Half-jokingly I suggested that we turn it into planter. So my wife did. She filled it with dirt, stuck a plant it in, and found a place for it in the front yard. It looked cool.

The plant was there there other day because I moved it to mow around it.

Tuesday morning my wife went for a run. She came back with the news: Someone stole the plant from the mailbox! And all of the dirt!

And it had poured the night before, so it was wet, muddy dirt.

I kid you not. They left the mailbox, though. Do we dust for prints?

Was the little red flag up? If so, it will come back for insufficient postage.

What kind of ahem "plant" was it?

Someone stole a small rose bush from our front yard a few months ago. Just...odd. Our yard is fenced and it is a pain to open the gate, so they would have leaned over and yanked it out. A rose bush, with thorns.

People suck sometimes.

I'll bet it was the mailman (under the direction of the Postmaster General) who took the plant from the old mailbox because it was unauthorized use of a mailbox.

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I had to enclose my front porch to keep people from taking stuff off it. Couple rocking chairs, American flag and other stuff.

Meth is a hell of a drug

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In reply to John Welsh :

The only problem is, they left the box and took the plant.

A while back in central FL it was sago palms. They were (inexplicably, because they're high-maintenance, prickly and not hardy) popular and not cheap. Wish someone had stolen the sago from my folks' house, sorry it happpened to you though.

Somebody stole one of two Foxglove plants back when I bought them. I know which neighbor did it just by seeing them walking the neighborhood picking stuff up from others' property. They've got mental issues. But what do you do?

Seeing the one Foxglove come up solo every year still pisses me off.

We had a beautiful row of 8 to 10 foot blue spruce trees in our back yard as a kid. One Christmas, someone came by and cut down the most perfect one in the middle of the night.

"Removed in the dead of night for the unauthorized improper use of an official U.S. Mail Box there Bub."

Check Craigslist for cheap plants. "Need gone today"

I miss mom...

From all these posts, I wonder if there's a well-organized black market for plants serving the landscaping industry

People cutting various pines around Christmas was an incredibly common occurrence on the farm when I was growing up. We had over a mile of roadside we had planted with a double row of spruce and we'd lose several every year. It really looked like E36 M3 when they did it and it was infuriating after spending DAYS planting and watering all those trees. Originally I don't recall how many, but we planted hundreds. Sometimes, they would cut one and leave it there. I'm not sure what that was about.

People also occasionally stole Iris, Lillys, and other flowers planted along the road. Sometimes they just pulled them up, other times we know they brought a shovel because the left nice deep holes. We actually caught people in the act sometimes. Most were NOT apologetic. Quite the opposite.

In my town, they get companies to sponsor beautification of intersections with some pretty expensive plants. I have been quite amazed that the intersection I go through every morning has never had any plants stolen. It would be easy when they first put them in the ground. But, I do seem to recall year ago someone stole quite a few of trees off the interstate right after they set them out.

In other news, Ive been having a ton of luck selling all these tropical plants I found in Florida to these Ohioans who wonder at the marvel of lush plants that keep their foliage all year.

I had a sweet lawn statue of a gnome riding a turtle, much like this one:

It was so sweet that someone stole the damn thing right from the landscaping in the front of the house. I'm still pissed about it to this day.

Now, all our sweet lawn ornaments, including a gnome driving a pickup truck, a gnome riding a motorcycle, a gnome riding a giant snail, and a 2 foot tall super gnome, all live in the backyard with the yard donkeys. I still wish turtle gnome would come home.

I woke up one morning to find about 50 marigolds pulled out of the ground as well as assorted other plants along with all the wood chip mulch missing from my front yard. Called police and said "you probably think this is crazy but........" Officer on phone said "Go see the officer at the end of your street." So I walked down the street to find a large group of neighbors.

Apparently a guy had been released from an institution with some mental issues. Had spent the entire night taking things from around the hood and putting them in his back yard. All kinds of children's toys, potted and bare root plants, chairs, picnic tables, bikes, laundry lines full of clothes, Sod, gas cans, wheel barrels, gas grills, ladders, hammocks, lights, hundreds of flags, urns and other items from the nearby cemetery. There was so much stuff we couldn't believe one person had enough time to collect it all in one night and some of the items were so big you'd think it took two people to carry them as far as he did.

isn't taking stuff from other peoples mail box a federal crime? probably time to call the FBI

NOT A TA wrote: I woke up one morning to find about 50 marigolds pulled out of the ground as well as assorted other plants along with all the wood chip mulch missing from my front yard. Called police and said "you probably think this is crazy but........" Officer on phone said "Go see the officer at the end of your street." So I walked down the street to find a large group of neighbors. Apparently a guy had been released from an institution with some mental issues. Had spent the entire night taking things from around the hood and putting them in his back yard. All kinds of children's toys, potted and bare root plants, chairs, picnic tables, bikes, laundry lines full of clothes, Sod, gas cans, wheel barrels, gas grills, ladders, hammocks, lights, hundreds of flags, urns and other items from the nearby cemetery. There was so much stuff we couldn't believe one person had enough time to collect it all in one night and some of the items were so big you'd think it took two people to carry them as far as he did.

I had a woman from my neighborhood pick all of my blue irises one time, right off my front lawn on a busy suburban street in broad daylight. Next year all that came up were the crappy yellow ones and white ones. The patch has just now, years later, started to show a few blue ones again.

In reply to WilD:

Just reading this has me unreasonably angry.