Lack of respect for area gardeners
The blogosphere is abuzz lately with reports of garden thefts. From traffic circles to yard gardens to p-patches, people are helping themselves to flowers and produce at an increasing rate. Komo 4 reports on kale theft:
“There are some things we don’t grow anymore because they’re ripe for picking, literally,” said Donaldson. “I don’t think that people are stealing the food because they need it. I think it’s a callous act and a selfish act.”
…I spotted two women and a man in the traffic circle. The two women had scissors or shears and were cutting themselves some pretty summer flowers. The same flowers that come from plants that other people buy, water and care of (not the city) to make our neighborhood beautiful. Not their house or table. Unable to contain myself this time, I called out to them and explained that the traffic circle is planted and cared for by the neighborhood. They apologized and claimed “We didn’t know”…
Some random people just decided to have an impromptu picnic and game of frisbee over our garden. I went out and asked them if they lived here and they said no, so i let them know this is private property. they told me they thought the yard (which is obviously a yard unless you’re totally stupid) was a “community center”.
They all sound like innocent mistakes to me. How did Americans become so anal about "private property"?
P-Patchs are clearly marked.
it sounds like, from the two examples that were given from "capitol hill seattle", that those people honestly didn’t know.
aside form p-patches, which, yes, are clearly marked, i agree with the first poster. some americans are getting a little anal with what upsets them.
don’t we still have a war going on in a country we shouldn’t be in? has the homeless problem been solved? have we curtailed violent crime? i guess what i’m saying is, "aren’t there better uses of our time and effort then to complain that people are picking flowers from a publicly accessible traffic circle?"
just wondering where people’s priorities are at.
Hey, chau and zeebleoop, where do you live? Please post your address. You might own something that I want and, hey, it’s perfectly okay for me to just walk in and take whatever I want from you, right? I mean, there’s a war going on, so that totally excuses stealing. I’m not getting the logic behind this, but, hey, I see how it can work to my favor.
Seriously, someone intentionally cutting flowers that they did not plant is an "innocent mistake"? The fact that there are homeless excuses the NOT-homeless from having a picnic in your yard? What the hell are you huffing to come up with this nonsense?