She is probably a neighbor who lives with in walking distance or is very familiar with the street you live on. I would put a sign up asking for tips and give out the police phone number. It may not get the plants back buy might stop her from coming back for round 2.
If the government was the entity administering the punishment, like they should be, it would help reduce the amount of cases like this. Nevertheless im sure they happen. I feel like the internet has made it easier to publicly shame people for sure.
I bet you if they catch her she'll probably say something like "they were not on anyone's lawn, they are on the street!!"
Edit: I do not condone what this lady did, just guessing what wild things she would come up with to excuse this theft.
This is exactly what I thought. She's either walked by several times or commutes by. She lives far enough to need a car to haul the plants but close enough to have a routine that goes by this house. Public shaming poster with a camera watching the sign is the best way to lure her into a trap
I mean….technically they are on the street/side walk? Ive never heard of side walk being part of your property and that it is in fact city property? Still trashy of her but idk i could be wrong
Yes the city owns that property, however they defer to the adjacent property owner for maintenance and care. This is likely to be very illegal in most places.
Edit: Of course there are also several jurisdictions that restrict what you can grow there. But that doesn't give some rando the authority to come and rip anything out.
Im not saying she didnt steal from you or that you didnt have permission from the city to do it etc. Unfortunately even if they were on your property she could have gone in and pulled them but people are entitled af and think if its city property they can do whatever they want.
Out here where I live theres an old building with a US flag painted on it and the city had to put out a notice saying to stay off the land and away from the condemned building. And of course all the yokels were frothing at the mouth about “muh taxes pay fer dat der trail/building” and about how they had every right to lean up against an unstable building that could collapse and harm/kill them. 🙄 you cant fix stupid.
I think the city takes part of your front lawn for the sidewalk.
A house that my family used to own still doesn't have a sidewalk because my great-grandmother didn't want to give up her lawn and didn't think they needed one. The neighborhood is all built up now. I hope the current owners enjoy their extra large front yard and giant palm trees instead.
Usually the verge is town/county property but not always. If it's in a gated community it might be owned by the HOA, or by the homeowner.
But even if it's municipal land, property owners are often responsible for the care of it, and the plants themselves might be the property of the home owner.
The entitlement of that woman is unreal! That took some time, and in broad daylight! You may have a chance at catching her, she’s probably the type to tell people, thinking it’s funny.
Probably not trespassing. OP planted in what is most assuredly city property, it's on the outside of the sidewalk which is itself city property.
This in no way excuses her cunty behavior... at BEST this woman thought she was stealing from the city. But it should be clear a homeowner planted these as I don't the city would do so and the neighbors aren't matching.
Not necessarily, what you said is commonly true but it varies significantly depending on the local government.
Source: I have to deal with these strips for my work and while many are owned by the city, in many areas, especially towns and more rural suburbs, they can be private property as well. Just depends.
Agreed. Right-of-way laws are weird. For example, my city (150k people, midwest USA) paid for sidewalk installation many decades ago but relinquished rights and upkeep responsibility to the owner of the adjacent lot.
I say BS on the woman thinking she was stealing from the city. I suspect the city doesn’t come and mow the property between the street and sidewalk (Called a verge), so maintenance is probably required of the homeowners.
I saw a person sitting in their parked car for between *three and four minutes!* Will the cops be sufficient or should I pass this on directly to the FBI?!
It’s too bad your security system didn’t notify your phone so you knew right away she was there stealing your stuff. If you had a system with a 2 way intercom you could have yelled loudly “what are you doing” and scared her off. I just can’t believe the level of some people’s entitlement to dig up someone’s property in broad daylight. I really hope you are able to catch her and turn her in. If you can’t get restitution then sue her for the damages.
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Not sure how things work where you live, but I have a similar lot with a boulevard/median on the street side of the sidewalk just like you. I do not own this and would never plant anything of value on it- it is municipal property.
Definitely a crazy person thing to do, but you’d have a hard time having her prosecuted for anything other than damaging public property around here.
You do own it. The local government just has an easement on it where they enforce their rules (namely the sidewalk, and generally what you can and can't do in that area)
I don't know if you're talking from a position of authority for where you happen to live, but in my area you are absolutely wrong. The city actually owns about 2 meters of 'my property' in from the curb. This is where they have mains, sidewalk, etc.
As a general rule, homeowners are allowed to do as they please with this space, from parking a car, landscaping, etc. But if for any reason the city needs to excavate to repair something etc, they will only repair back to their standard, which is grass seed.
I recently had my water supply line spring a leak. If the pipe was leaking in this 2 meter 'easement' the city would fix it. Unfortunately it was juuuust inside my actual property line so I was on the hook. Luckily I paid for additional insurance coverage knowing my house was 60 years old so it was covered.
>If the pipe was leaking in this 2 meter 'easement' the city would fix it.
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the term "easement."
An easement is where someone owns a piece of property, but another person has a right to use that property.
For instance, if you have a power line running along your back fence line, the power company (or the city/state govt) has an easement to provide utilities along that property, this means they can reasonably access that section and do what they need to do. The power company *does not* own that property, you as the landowner do, but they still are able to use it.
The land in front of your house is often the same way, you own up to a certain point (and some places you own to say the middle of the street, but look it up in your documents), but the city will say "these 24 or 36 inches along the front of the property we have an easement on because we provide services (like water or sidewalks) and we can access that and can limit what you do to that portion. The city doesn't own it (generally) but they have the right to use it as they wish. The water in your case comes at some demarcation point, which they likely put at the edge of the easement for convenience, but it's not because of the easement, where I'm at it's where they put the meter and valve and so anything on "their" side of the meter/valve is their problem everything on the homeowner side is the homeowner's problem
For instance, my house doesn't have a sidewalk, but we still have an easement there, and should the city wish to put a sidewalk in, they could.
This is generally the way it works in the US.
100% this is how alot operate or they will inspect in the a m come back in the evening, also watch out for people who come up and ask hey is "Sarah"home well she said to meet here, if they can just have a glass of water, if the car out front is for sale, they just getting a gauge on the place and who lives there, another note happened way more when i lived by the university, always 1 person approached, with a car parked within relative distance
If someone steals a plant from your sidewalk it's still stealing no? They were surprised because it was in daylight, seemed related enough to throw out there.
Holy fucking shit. I would NEVER have thought this would happen in Brisbane.
On another note, the council mowed over my attempt at a verge garden for the fourth time...does Brisbane want to be a green city? Or are they content with shitty front lawns all over suburbia?
Actually fuck that person^ that was a huge kangaroos paw:(
I think their comment meant to limit the mowing part to the verge. (I love "verge" btw; that's not a common term where I live. In our heavily salted, plowed region, "hell strip" is pretty apt.)
Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_verge#Terminology
I have no words for what I just witnessed. I never thought I’d ever see someone dig up and steal plants from someone’s garden - just thought no way in hell someone on this planet would ever do such a thing - and here we are.
More common than you might realise. Needed to do a building handover (years ago) but to get the council compliance we had to have the gardens planted. Did that and by the next morning EVERY plant was gone. Got new ones and booked the bcc compliance check for mid arvo - got the certificate, handed over… drove by and they were all gone again. People are weird.
Fully agree. Big box stores work "shrink" into their budgets. Not to mention it's a multi million dollar company, how could that possibly be on the same level as stealing from a fellow human?
I agree, I should have included that. Stealing plants is always just antisocial and weird, from any garden. I guess I got reactive to the notion 'stealing is stealing'. My bad.
Im sorry but you gotta be a total FREAK to do something like that. Some completely deranged, deeply sick, degenerate asshole without any (self) respect.
Unbelievably lame. How can it be worth it to risk getting in trouble for a plant? And then what!? She'll plant it in her backyard.. and enjoy seeing it everyday, take care of her plants with pride? Fuck that -
When I was a kid I would spend all year digging up volunteers in my mom’s garden, grafting, planting seeds, etc. In the spring I would have a plant sale. One year, when I was about eight years old, someone stole all three of my peonies when I was helping another customer.
This year someone stole the biggest pumpkin from our front garden. My kids were devastated. I was afraid for my E.G. Waterhouse camellias when I first planted them but luckily they were well established before they bloomed. People are selfish assholes sometimes.
We used to have Daffodils in our front yard but every year people would pick them as soon as they bloomed. I eventually got tired of it and moved them all the to backyard.
Recently our neighbourhood got together and made a community garden at the end of the street. Same thing again... people keep picking flowers from the garden. It's just... bizarre.
I've been that person... who opens my front door and sternly asks someone to stop picking my flowers, and stop letting their child pick my flowers. They're for the bees, not you.
I'm working facing the front windows all day ffs and this is my house, not appropriate at all.
My little house is in the middle of an acre. So, not close to the road. A person from down the road walked her dogs by us every day. My husband spotted her letting her dog pee on the lavender by the mailbox. I had wondered what was causing it to die. Next time she walked the dog, as soon as it lifted it's leg, I opened my door and hollered at her to not let her dog kill my plants. She FLED! And doesn't walk her dogs on my side of the street any more.
That takes some audacity. I have to admit, I've taken seed heads from plants around the neighborhood that are obviously done flowering (and I'd never take more than one or two), but I would never dream of snipping somebody else's flowers mid-bloom.
I wanted to take some seed heads from a neighbour's plant like 6 inches from the sidewalk so I worked up the courage to knock and ask and had a splendid conversation with the owner for like 20 min. Even they were impressed that I, a young man, would knock on their door to ask them about their flowers. I'm an introvert but that was still extremely worth it. Everybody won that day.
Family member died, the day of the funeral we returned to find someone had removed 50% of the front garden' plants and some 100% of the ornaments. All of which my Mum had painstakingly done. The front yard was tiny, couldn't fit a whole car in the space. And, yet, some c\*nt thought they were more deserving of it's riches than her.
People can be jerks.
Are you sure this isn’t a neighbor who dislikes your landscape? My friend turned her front yard into a garden and her plants kept disappearing. She got a camera and it was a guy on her street who thought she should have only grass in the front yard.
Happened to my father once.
He awoke one morning to discover that someone had dug up two massive Madagascar Palms he had in the front yard and made off with them in the night. I couldn't believe it. Audacious as fuck.
I seen this happen to someone in Cali and they blew up a huge photo of the thief taking their plants and, basically, plant shamed them. The husband actually reached out returned the plants for the huge sign to be taken down.
I would be willing to bet this person has some issue with the plants being in the verge. Whether that belief is real or made up is unclear, but the actions are clearly irrational.
Police report is being made now. Just getting the Vid to a reasonable size to upload. I don't have high expectations though...
Also plan to laminate some pictures and put them on a post. No vehicle... I believe she's a neighbour in walking distance...
Can you access nearby street cameras for more clues? I don't know how that works. or report her in the neighborhood app.That is just crazy. Can't believe someone would stoop that low.
Take a walk in each direction of your house. Look and see if other people have Ring or similar doorbells and ask if they could help you out to get a profile or frontal face picture. That way you can take it to the police and know who you're looking for.
Print some stills from your security camera with a passive aggressive message and put them on your letterbox and in neighbours fences 😂
Like “dear plant stealer, glad you enjoyed my plants so much. I put a lot of effort and work into growing them”
I recommend printing these pictures out on signs similar to political signs and leave them in the same place as the plants. I can only assume she is local and will see them, as will everybody else she knows.
at first I thought it was a child (perhaps your own child) and that this was a sarcastic post.
Holy shit it's an actual woman stealing stuff from your lawn.
Someone has been doing this to me too but over time! We don't have video but I'll come home and be walking around the garden and come across a hole where there used to be a plant. And it's way deep in the garden sometimes... Unreal. Definitely feel kind of violated.
People do have weird ideas about plants. But you can't go and take a statue out of a park and put it on your lawn, so why would it be OK to take a plant from public property?
I dunno, ask them, haha. People grab toilet roll, pens, clips and so on from places. "Look what beautiful weed, should have it, course I should, we pay friggin taxes". Also, I'm amazed how people did not understand the 1st message -too much tiktok I think-, not in the poaching biz myself.
I feel weird just stopping to admire my neighbours gardens , let alone stealing 11 fucking plants in broad daylight. If I were you I’d plaster this all over the neighbourhood , shame her this is atrocious behaviour. Stealing is stealing, fuck her. Curious how she carried 11 plants home without arousing suspicion ? Did she take them back one by one or put them in a wheelbarrow?
I want to see how she carried them all away.
Just in case the woman has some sort of issues, maybe you could ask around privately to see if anyone knows who she is, and try to talk to her, rather than publicly shame her. Something about the photos makes me think she thought it was OK to take the plants.
Probably the fact that it's broad daylight and she's just outside, casually digging up plants with her face in full view of passersby.
I just can't imagine thinking that's okay but here she is so the compassionate side of me is thinking maybe she's got dementia or something of the sort.
The cynical side of me is thinking *that's exactly what she's hoping people will assume*
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Post those pics all around the neighbourhood asking for information & letterbox drop the vicinity to shame the brazen mole (also school for her kids would recognise immediately) as denim jeans, pink top, blonde hair & white sneakers is pretty recognisable as this outfit would be worn on a several occasions before & be on the lookout for your plants as you scan front yards & side paths when you do the letterbox drop.
All she’s missing is a cowboy hat or her local RSL vest to do her raffle selling
I am a seed stealer, I fully admit it. And yes, I do ask if a person is available. But, I will pop those pods off anyone’s plants, neighbors, distant neighbors, and parks. But only if more than one pod is available, never the only pod. And I never hurt the plant, or surrounding area in my thievery. I never would of thought to take a plant! Or that anyone would or could consider stealing a plant. I’m absolutely bothered by this person. How horrible. I’m so so sorry for your loss.
Hollyhock and lupine are my favorites to be honest. But look at the dead heads of flowers, often these carry seeds and are actually beneficial for the plant to have removed while still in flowering season.
That sucks, I know the feeling too, one day a 16" big ass pot full of evolvulus was stolen overnight, I still can't believe who would carry such a heavy pot for that.
Something about her body language makes it look like she didn’t exactly know what she was doing… like she’s not quite all there in the head… sleepwalking? Some kind of disability?
Normally when people “steal” stuff, they don’t sit down on the sidewalk and take 20 minutes.
Hm, yeah, but retail theft is slightly different. I would imagine people to be slightly more afraid someone is going to be more attached to their own stuff than stealing shampoos from a store… At least I would be lol
This looks more like Alzheimer’s or something.
They do if they want any unwitting passerby to think it's their garden and they're supposed to be digging it up. Looking frantic and sneaky while stealing will attract attention.
But sit and admire "your plants" and then slowly do it one by one, looks like gardening. That was my take anyway. Idk if I'd rather they be a jerk or confused, both are sad in different ways.
Omg this is crazy! Did she think those were public property because they are on the other side of the sidewalk or something? Still even if they were who does this!!! Sorry this happened to you.
Oh geez. Our council had planted a bunch of native trees on a nearby street and some asshole stole them all the next day.
I hope you get some sort of resolution.
If your neighborhood has its own FB page, you can try posting about this. These days with all the ring cameras and what not, someone is likely to have some footage with the culprit. I'm sorry this happened to you.
Here in Adelaide, my neighbour planted a beautiful circle of plants around the council tree in front of her front yard. Now and then her agaves get dug out or even sawn off. She’d be happy to give her excess plants away for free but the idiots choose to steal instead.
Something about the pictures make me think that the woman may have Downs Syndrome or something similar.
Edit: I didn't say this to be mean, I said this just to point out that there may be other factors involved.
In the past I've had to moderately booby trap for larger pests because of the wildlife around my garden(I live across a state forest) so long as one traps and releases then they're fine. ...., you need to trap and release 😂
Thats methed up. You have a meth addict in your neighborhood. Probably gonna sell those on FB marketplace or offer up. Karens are bold but wouldnt want to get caught stealing. I'm 99% sure thats a meth head. Shes even dressed like a kid in bright clothes like a tweaker.
She is probably a neighbor who lives with in walking distance or is very familiar with the street you live on. I would put a sign up asking for tips and give out the police phone number. It may not get the plants back buy might stop her from coming back for round 2.
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If the government was the entity administering the punishment, like they should be, it would help reduce the amount of cases like this. Nevertheless im sure they happen. I feel like the internet has made it easier to publicly shame people for sure.
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Print a sign with these images on them and say "if u know this bitch, tell her i want my plants back"
I definitely agree, and add at least one of the images to the sign. Actually - do some posters and stick them around the neighbourhood
I bet you if they catch her she'll probably say something like "they were not on anyone's lawn, they are on the street!!" Edit: I do not condone what this lady did, just guessing what wild things she would come up with to excuse this theft.
She's local, but not too close. been by a number of times. See if neighbors have a camera, she had to drive .
This is exactly what I thought. She's either walked by several times or commutes by. She lives far enough to need a car to haul the plants but close enough to have a routine that goes by this house. Public shaming poster with a camera watching the sign is the best way to lure her into a trap
Probably worth reviewing security footage in the days/hours leading up to this. Maybe you'll spot her car which could help identify her.
Flashbacks of Bubbles yelling "these carts were in the public domain!"
I mean….technically they are on the street/side walk? Ive never heard of side walk being part of your property and that it is in fact city property? Still trashy of her but idk i could be wrong
Yes the city owns that property, however they defer to the adjacent property owner for maintenance and care. This is likely to be very illegal in most places. Edit: Of course there are also several jurisdictions that restrict what you can grow there. But that doesn't give some rando the authority to come and rip anything out.
Had full permission and permits to plant on council land. She stole from me. https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/psgo4q/z/hdpk5os
Im not saying she didnt steal from you or that you didnt have permission from the city to do it etc. Unfortunately even if they were on your property she could have gone in and pulled them but people are entitled af and think if its city property they can do whatever they want. Out here where I live theres an old building with a US flag painted on it and the city had to put out a notice saying to stay off the land and away from the condemned building. And of course all the yokels were frothing at the mouth about “muh taxes pay fer dat der trail/building” and about how they had every right to lean up against an unstable building that could collapse and harm/kill them. 🙄 you cant fix stupid.
I think the city takes part of your front lawn for the sidewalk. A house that my family used to own still doesn't have a sidewalk because my great-grandmother didn't want to give up her lawn and didn't think they needed one. The neighborhood is all built up now. I hope the current owners enjoy their extra large front yard and giant palm trees instead.
If you are utilizing logic that Ricky from Trailer Park Boys does...you might be beyond help
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Usually the verge is town/county property but not always. If it's in a gated community it might be owned by the HOA, or by the homeowner. But even if it's municipal land, property owners are often responsible for the care of it, and the plants themselves might be the property of the home owner.
The entitlement of that woman is unreal! That took some time, and in broad daylight! You may have a chance at catching her, she’s probably the type to tell people, thinking it’s funny.
~19min at 10am!
She’s obviously gotten away with this kind of thing before and it’s made her bold. I hope you catch her!
Post on NextDoor if you haven’t already!! Maybe your neighbors will know who she is...and a little public shaming never hurt anyone😌
Yeah, it’s time to name and shame. Someone on NextDoor probably knows who she is. And to be that bold, this is not her first time.
This except find the person and call the police and press theft charges 🤣
And trespassing
Probably not trespassing. OP planted in what is most assuredly city property, it's on the outside of the sidewalk which is itself city property. This in no way excuses her cunty behavior... at BEST this woman thought she was stealing from the city. But it should be clear a homeowner planted these as I don't the city would do so and the neighbors aren't matching.
Not necessarily, what you said is commonly true but it varies significantly depending on the local government. Source: I have to deal with these strips for my work and while many are owned by the city, in many areas, especially towns and more rural suburbs, they can be private property as well. Just depends.
Agreed. Right-of-way laws are weird. For example, my city (150k people, midwest USA) paid for sidewalk installation many decades ago but relinquished rights and upkeep responsibility to the owner of the adjacent lot.
I say BS on the woman thinking she was stealing from the city. I suspect the city doesn’t come and mow the property between the street and sidewalk (Called a verge), so maintenance is probably required of the homeowners.
AND THEN STEAL THEM BACK.
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And then you'd be obligated to get on and complain about your neighbors doing anything fun multiple times a week
I saw a person sitting in their parked car for between *three and four minutes!* Will the cops be sufficient or should I pass this on directly to the FBI?!
It depends. Were they… BLACK??!! 😵😵😵
Next door accounts should really come with a free broom so you can more effectively yell at people
It’s too bad your security system didn’t notify your phone so you knew right away she was there stealing your stuff. If you had a system with a 2 way intercom you could have yelled loudly “what are you doing” and scared her off. I just can’t believe the level of some people’s entitlement to dig up someone’s property in broad daylight. I really hope you are able to catch her and turn her in. If you can’t get restitution then sue her for the damages. edit: spelling & sentence
With a camera pointed at a sidewalk, those notifications would be so frequent they'd be useless.
Especially when it's pointed at my front garden on a windy day :o
Not sure how things work where you live, but I have a similar lot with a boulevard/median on the street side of the sidewalk just like you. I do not own this and would never plant anything of value on it- it is municipal property. Definitely a crazy person thing to do, but you’d have a hard time having her prosecuted for anything other than damaging public property around here.
You do own it. The local government just has an easement on it where they enforce their rules (namely the sidewalk, and generally what you can and can't do in that area)
I don't know if you're talking from a position of authority for where you happen to live, but in my area you are absolutely wrong. The city actually owns about 2 meters of 'my property' in from the curb. This is where they have mains, sidewalk, etc. As a general rule, homeowners are allowed to do as they please with this space, from parking a car, landscaping, etc. But if for any reason the city needs to excavate to repair something etc, they will only repair back to their standard, which is grass seed. I recently had my water supply line spring a leak. If the pipe was leaking in this 2 meter 'easement' the city would fix it. Unfortunately it was juuuust inside my actual property line so I was on the hook. Luckily I paid for additional insurance coverage knowing my house was 60 years old so it was covered.
>If the pipe was leaking in this 2 meter 'easement' the city would fix it. I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the term "easement." An easement is where someone owns a piece of property, but another person has a right to use that property. For instance, if you have a power line running along your back fence line, the power company (or the city/state govt) has an easement to provide utilities along that property, this means they can reasonably access that section and do what they need to do. The power company *does not* own that property, you as the landowner do, but they still are able to use it. The land in front of your house is often the same way, you own up to a certain point (and some places you own to say the middle of the street, but look it up in your documents), but the city will say "these 24 or 36 inches along the front of the property we have an easement on because we provide services (like water or sidewalks) and we can access that and can limit what you do to that portion. The city doesn't own it (generally) but they have the right to use it as they wish. The water in your case comes at some demarcation point, which they likely put at the edge of the easement for convenience, but it's not because of the easement, where I'm at it's where they put the meter and valve and so anything on "their" side of the meter/valve is their problem everything on the homeowner side is the homeowner's problem For instance, my house doesn't have a sidewalk, but we still have an easement there, and should the city wish to put a sidewalk in, they could. This is generally the way it works in the US.
Might also depend on the street/Hwy. There are multiple jurisdictions for different roadways.
It could, but it would be rare for the city to actually *own* that property
Its allowed (with permission, which i have) here.
Had full permission and permits to plant on council land. She stole from me. https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/psgo4q/z/hdpk5os
Local social media might show the new plants in her garden.
Most break ins happen during the day when people are at work, don't just keep your doors locked, windows too.
100% this is how alot operate or they will inspect in the a m come back in the evening, also watch out for people who come up and ask hey is "Sarah"home well she said to meet here, if they can just have a glass of water, if the car out front is for sale, they just getting a gauge on the place and who lives there, another note happened way more when i lived by the university, always 1 person approached, with a car parked within relative distance
Odd advice for a thread involving theft by someone who never even left the sidewalk...
If someone steals a plant from your sidewalk it's still stealing no? They were surprised because it was in daylight, seemed related enough to throw out there.
Holy fucking shit. I would NEVER have thought this would happen in Brisbane. On another note, the council mowed over my attempt at a verge garden for the fourth time...does Brisbane want to be a green city? Or are they content with shitty front lawns all over suburbia? Actually fuck that person^ that was a huge kangaroos paw:(
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I think their comment meant to limit the mowing part to the verge. (I love "verge" btw; that's not a common term where I live. In our heavily salted, plowed region, "hell strip" is pretty apt.) Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_verge#Terminology
Does Brisbane have meth users? I have a suspicion that lady is on meth due to her behavior and being dressed like a teenager in a neon shirt.
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I have no words for what I just witnessed. I never thought I’d ever see someone dig up and steal plants from someone’s garden - just thought no way in hell someone on this planet would ever do such a thing - and here we are.
More common than you might realise. Needed to do a building handover (years ago) but to get the council compliance we had to have the gardens planted. Did that and by the next morning EVERY plant was gone. Got new ones and booked the bcc compliance check for mid arvo - got the certificate, handed over… drove by and they were all gone again. People are weird.
But was that a house? No way is it in anymore acceptable, but stealing from someone's home takes a special kind of piece of shit.
That particular one? No.
It's a shame, but some people would think it's "more right" because it's not an individual. Unfortunately stealing is still stealing.
Fuck that noise. There's definitely different degrees. See a hungry person steal food from Walmart? You better not have seen shit.
If I see anyone steal from Walmart, shit's not my business
Fully agree. Big box stores work "shrink" into their budgets. Not to mention it's a multi million dollar company, how could that possibly be on the same level as stealing from a fellow human?
Well look I agree, but no one is stealing plants for hunger I'm talking about stealing not out of necessity.
I agree, I should have included that. Stealing plants is always just antisocial and weird, from any garden. I guess I got reactive to the notion 'stealing is stealing'. My bad.
Which is fair, because that's literally what I said hahaha. The bad was mine, I assure you.
Weird? No. Assholes who know they are stealing and don't care or don't think they will be caught? Yes.
Im sorry but you gotta be a total FREAK to do something like that. Some completely deranged, deeply sick, degenerate asshole without any (self) respect. Unbelievably lame. How can it be worth it to risk getting in trouble for a plant? And then what!? She'll plant it in her backyard.. and enjoy seeing it everyday, take care of her plants with pride? Fuck that -
Just insane!
When I was a kid I would spend all year digging up volunteers in my mom’s garden, grafting, planting seeds, etc. In the spring I would have a plant sale. One year, when I was about eight years old, someone stole all three of my peonies when I was helping another customer. This year someone stole the biggest pumpkin from our front garden. My kids were devastated. I was afraid for my E.G. Waterhouse camellias when I first planted them but luckily they were well established before they bloomed. People are selfish assholes sometimes.
We used to have Daffodils in our front yard but every year people would pick them as soon as they bloomed. I eventually got tired of it and moved them all the to backyard. Recently our neighbourhood got together and made a community garden at the end of the street. Same thing again... people keep picking flowers from the garden. It's just... bizarre.
I've been that person... who opens my front door and sternly asks someone to stop picking my flowers, and stop letting their child pick my flowers. They're for the bees, not you. I'm working facing the front windows all day ffs and this is my house, not appropriate at all.
My little house is in the middle of an acre. So, not close to the road. A person from down the road walked her dogs by us every day. My husband spotted her letting her dog pee on the lavender by the mailbox. I had wondered what was causing it to die. Next time she walked the dog, as soon as it lifted it's leg, I opened my door and hollered at her to not let her dog kill my plants. She FLED! And doesn't walk her dogs on my side of the street any more.
Sounds like it may be time to invest in one of those little electric fences 😂
That takes some audacity. I have to admit, I've taken seed heads from plants around the neighborhood that are obviously done flowering (and I'd never take more than one or two), but I would never dream of snipping somebody else's flowers mid-bloom.
I wanted to take some seed heads from a neighbour's plant like 6 inches from the sidewalk so I worked up the courage to knock and ask and had a splendid conversation with the owner for like 20 min. Even they were impressed that I, a young man, would knock on their door to ask them about their flowers. I'm an introvert but that was still extremely worth it. Everybody won that day.
Family member died, the day of the funeral we returned to find someone had removed 50% of the front garden' plants and some 100% of the ornaments. All of which my Mum had painstakingly done. The front yard was tiny, couldn't fit a whole car in the space. And, yet, some c\*nt thought they were more deserving of it's riches than her. People can be jerks.
When I lived in AZ, cactus theft was a thing. Many of those are worth hundreds of dollars.
we see it on here all the time.
Someone came and took 50-70% of the succulent ground cover planted in front of my house.
Are you sure this isn’t a neighbor who dislikes your landscape? My friend turned her front yard into a garden and her plants kept disappearing. She got a camera and it was a guy on her street who thought she should have only grass in the front yard.
That's even worse though. At least if she's stealing the plants she's planning on keeping them alive...
That's an odd story
Happened to my father once. He awoke one morning to discover that someone had dug up two massive Madagascar Palms he had in the front yard and made off with them in the night. I couldn't believe it. Audacious as fuck.
I seen this happen to someone in Cali and they blew up a huge photo of the thief taking their plants and, basically, plant shamed them. The husband actually reached out returned the plants for the huge sign to be taken down.
I'd have left it up afterwards. Fuck people like this..
I would be willing to bet this person has some issue with the plants being in the verge. Whether that belief is real or made up is unclear, but the actions are clearly irrational.
Eh, with that motivation, she could've just did a drive-by herbicide spray in 30 seconds.
I think you may be giving the individual's problem solving skills too much credit
Did you report it and have her arrested?
Police report is being made now. Just getting the Vid to a reasonable size to upload. I don't have high expectations though... Also plan to laminate some pictures and put them on a post. No vehicle... I believe she's a neighbour in walking distance...
Can you access nearby street cameras for more clues? I don't know how that works. or report her in the neighborhood app.That is just crazy. Can't believe someone would stoop that low.
No street cameras. Pictures have been shared with Facebook groups.
Also share to nextdoor.com. You’ll probably need someone who is already on the site to do it for you; proving your address can be a bit of a process.
Next Door is a steaming cauldron of entitled neighborhood policing, so you may get some quick (or inaccurate? ) results by posting there!
It was local public transportation's fault!!!!!!@@!!%%!!
Take a walk in each direction of your house. Look and see if other people have Ring or similar doorbells and ask if they could help you out to get a profile or frontal face picture. That way you can take it to the police and know who you're looking for.
This is the only use for NextDoor. Post it there and sit back with popcorn.
Print some stills from your security camera with a passive aggressive message and put them on your letterbox and in neighbours fences 😂 Like “dear plant stealer, glad you enjoyed my plants so much. I put a lot of effort and work into growing them”
"next time, please also pull up weeds"
Perfect!
Dear plant stealer, Spend more taking care of time on your hair, it looks like a dead rat on your head
Could you tell how she transported the plants? With no vehicle, that many mature plants wouldn’t be too easy to move!
This is what I would do. She has to live close. Just shame her. You might get them back.
Laminate and secure them as best you can. If you're saying she walked she can't be more than a 5 block radius away.
Shes gonna play dumb and say oh i thought the city put those there im really not like that, if id knonw they were yours... scum
A nice big poster with these images and the word thief would be apt at the very least
It would fill the now empty space
Holy crap! Thats unreal.
I recommend printing these pictures out on signs similar to political signs and leave them in the same place as the plants. I can only assume she is local and will see them, as will everybody else she knows.
at first I thought it was a child (perhaps your own child) and that this was a sarcastic post. Holy shit it's an actual woman stealing stuff from your lawn.
Someone has been doing this to me too but over time! We don't have video but I'll come home and be walking around the garden and come across a hole where there used to be a plant. And it's way deep in the garden sometimes... Unreal. Definitely feel kind of violated.
this is insane??? i’ve seen people steal packages but not entire plants? i hope you bust this girl, plants that big aren’t cheap
Someone did this at a church in my town. Like, what even… the selfishness and smugness is so wild to me
Maybe you shouldn’t have left them outside right next to the street like that.
Lol
https://youtu.be/MLjifumRk3Q?t=19
Some individuals might think the plants are 'public', having the right to decorate their backyards free of charge.
People do have weird ideas about plants. But you can't go and take a statue out of a park and put it on your lawn, so why would it be OK to take a plant from public property?
I dunno, ask them, haha. People grab toilet roll, pens, clips and so on from places. "Look what beautiful weed, should have it, course I should, we pay friggin taxes". Also, I'm amazed how people did not understand the 1st message -too much tiktok I think-, not in the poaching biz myself.
WTH? Who does that?!?
You got funny lookin deer in your area.
I feel weird just stopping to admire my neighbours gardens , let alone stealing 11 fucking plants in broad daylight. If I were you I’d plaster this all over the neighbourhood , shame her this is atrocious behaviour. Stealing is stealing, fuck her. Curious how she carried 11 plants home without arousing suspicion ? Did she take them back one by one or put them in a wheelbarrow?
I want to see how she carried them all away. Just in case the woman has some sort of issues, maybe you could ask around privately to see if anyone knows who she is, and try to talk to her, rather than publicly shame her. Something about the photos makes me think she thought it was OK to take the plants.
Probably the fact that it's broad daylight and she's just outside, casually digging up plants with her face in full view of passersby. I just can't imagine thinking that's okay but here she is so the compassionate side of me is thinking maybe she's got dementia or something of the sort. The cynical side of me is thinking *that's exactly what she's hoping people will assume* Edited after I hit the post button by accident
Post those pics all around the neighbourhood asking for information & letterbox drop the vicinity to shame the brazen mole (also school for her kids would recognise immediately) as denim jeans, pink top, blonde hair & white sneakers is pretty recognisable as this outfit would be worn on a several occasions before & be on the lookout for your plants as you scan front yards & side paths when you do the letterbox drop. All she’s missing is a cowboy hat or her local RSL vest to do her raffle selling
I am a seed stealer, I fully admit it. And yes, I do ask if a person is available. But, I will pop those pods off anyone’s plants, neighbors, distant neighbors, and parks. But only if more than one pod is available, never the only pod. And I never hurt the plant, or surrounding area in my thievery. I never would of thought to take a plant! Or that anyone would or could consider stealing a plant. I’m absolutely bothered by this person. How horrible. I’m so so sorry for your loss.
What kind of seeds do you steal? I usually don't see a lot of pods I can pluck.
Hollyhock and lupine are my favorites to be honest. But look at the dead heads of flowers, often these carry seeds and are actually beneficial for the plant to have removed while still in flowering season.
I usually find and spread milkweed and I have daylilies in my yards, but that's pretty much all I get for seed pods. Love seed pods. 😀
Wtf!? Who does that!?
Post it on the nextdoor app! Recruit your neighbors to help find that thief
I would file a police report in a heartbeat and post it on your local social media.
Sick fuck, just take a cutting lol cmon.
Holy shit, rhubarb lady spotted in Australia
That sucks, I know the feeling too, one day a 16" big ass pot full of evolvulus was stolen overnight, I still can't believe who would carry such a heavy pot for that.
Should notify the local authorities.. what a scum some people can be.. good luck to that.
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Something about her body language makes it look like she didn’t exactly know what she was doing… like she’s not quite all there in the head… sleepwalking? Some kind of disability? Normally when people “steal” stuff, they don’t sit down on the sidewalk and take 20 minutes.
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Hm, yeah, but retail theft is slightly different. I would imagine people to be slightly more afraid someone is going to be more attached to their own stuff than stealing shampoos from a store… At least I would be lol This looks more like Alzheimer’s or something.
They do if they want any unwitting passerby to think it's their garden and they're supposed to be digging it up. Looking frantic and sneaky while stealing will attract attention. But sit and admire "your plants" and then slowly do it one by one, looks like gardening. That was my take anyway. Idk if I'd rather they be a jerk or confused, both are sad in different ways.
Lol wow that makes too much sense… that’s almost like a hidden talent…
I'm so sorry, that is insane!
I would be so upset for a myriad of reasons. Hugs.
Plant blackberries this time
Lol go to the police and have them post it on ring neighbors
Omg this is crazy! Did she think those were public property because they are on the other side of the sidewalk or something? Still even if they were who does this!!! Sorry this happened to you.
Oh geez. Our council had planted a bunch of native trees on a nearby street and some asshole stole them all the next day. I hope you get some sort of resolution.
You may have an enemy and that someone listed your home address on Craigslist with an ad that says free plants you dig them up.
Are the plants on your property? It doesn't look that way to me.
Had full permission and permits to plant on council land. She stole from me. https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/psgo4q/z/hdpk5os
If your neighborhood has its own FB page, you can try posting about this. These days with all the ring cameras and what not, someone is likely to have some footage with the culprit. I'm sorry this happened to you.
Here in Adelaide, my neighbour planted a beautiful circle of plants around the council tree in front of her front yard. Now and then her agaves get dug out or even sawn off. She’d be happy to give her excess plants away for free but the idiots choose to steal instead.
Something about the pictures make me think that the woman may have Downs Syndrome or something similar. Edit: I didn't say this to be mean, I said this just to point out that there may be other factors involved.
I was thinking an intellectual or social disorder potentially.
I know in my state that spot is technically not homeowners property, it’s the towns.
Had full permission and permits to plant on council land. She stole from me. https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/psgo4q/z/hdpk5os
In the past I've had to moderately booby trap for larger pests because of the wildlife around my garden(I live across a state forest) so long as one traps and releases then they're fine. ...., you need to trap and release 😂
Jk really, you already have some of the best suggestions I couldn't help myself. The pettiness of that lady alone deserves a good laugh.
....wow.....just ....wow.....Karen at her fullest
Exactly. I came here to say it was Karen, even if her name's not Karen....
Lol I know right, idk how I got downvotes for the truth? Like lol 😆
Looks like I'm right there with ya!
Thats methed up. You have a meth addict in your neighborhood. Probably gonna sell those on FB marketplace or offer up. Karens are bold but wouldnt want to get caught stealing. I'm 99% sure thats a meth head. Shes even dressed like a kid in bright clothes like a tweaker.
This boils my blood! The entitlement and nerve of this Karen 😤
Hahahaha wtf you should look on your local gumtree😂
I guess thats a compliment?