I am so mad someone stole are my fruit trees

A few weeks ago someone entered the section of my backyard were my two outside cats stay and left the screen door on the deck hanging wide open - letting my semi feral out. My answer was to padlock the door and gate. It wouldn't stop someone with a big pair of bolt cutters but it gets the message across "I know here were here, stay the ___ out".

If you have a fence and gates, lock the gates. Add some no trespassing signs. It may not keep anyone really determined out, but it'll let them know that someone noticed they were there and didn't like it.
I'd be more paranoid about someone being up around the back of the house looking in and checking windows...

I hope they stay out!

That stinks Jacky!! Someone wanted to sell them, no doubt!

They dug them up???? I do hope the police were called immediately and hopefully you can get them back.

Originally Posted by mews2much

We went to the store yesterday and I went to see how my fruit looked on the trees when we got home.
12 very heavy fruit were stolen.
Some of them weighed 50 pounds.
I feel so violated right now.
These were in my back yard and had fruit on them
Not many people go in our yard.

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Someone dug up and took your fruit tree?! Talk about nerve! I hope you called the police!!

Wow, I'd be mad too!

Definitely file a police report if you haven't done so already. Police need to be aware of anything that goes on in an area, it might just get them to take an extra drive down the street once in a while to check on things. Police presence often equals criminals moving to another area. (unfortunately it won't stop them. but it will move them.)

how brazen and foul. what kind of fruit?

Thanks Everyone,
These trees were in pots and some of them weighed 50-60 pounds.
They took 12 of them.
Here is what was taken.
Peach,Avacodo,Man Orange,Grapefruit,Jujube,Almond,Persimmon,Pomegranite,Lo Quat,Kumquat and 2 others.
We did file a police report but they took it over the phone.

aww jacky im sorry, i hope they can catch the scum that took them

Oh man!!! I would be so freaked out and pissed off ! You need to talk to your neighbors, see if anyone saw anything suspicious, a truck, anything! If there wasn't a truck around, then the plants didn't go far.......I would do some investigating, police don't care about things like this.........

Jacky, I never lived in Cali, so this may be a dumb question, but WHY were the trees in pots? Why were they not planted in the ground and growing like that. Seems weird to me to keep a fruit tree in a pot and not plant them.

A friend of mine who is visiting from Sweden told me about the chain of Koi Fish theft by use of Google Earth! I looked it up and found this....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...-koi-carp.html
It's unbelievable how crude our own kind can be to our own kind!
I would definitely do some investigating, ask neighbors, stop by local nurseries and tell them what happened, get the word out.

Sad thing is the trees are suffering as well!

That is really nasty

That is aweful that you can't even have fruit trees!

Didn't you post something on FB about having extra fruit? Maybe someone near by read that...

That's awful! I HATE thieves. Especially ones so brazen as to walk into your yard and take YOUR stuff! We had that happen last month - someone just waltzed into our yard and drove off with a tow dolly. Luckily a pawn shop logged in the VIN number and it alerted the cops. It's locked up under our deck now.

Its a shame the way the world is these days.

I'm so sorry that happened to you. I hope you can find the idiots who did this.

And I agree about Google Earth. It has its uses, but those uses aren't always good ones.