Someone has stolen half my holly bush!

[Levanna]

I can't quite believe it, but someone has nicked a sizeable portion - about 3 square feet - from my holly bush! It's right next to the porch at our front door and was about 10' high by 6' wide. If they'd have asked I would quite happily have given them some as I was planning to prune some for myself anyway! It's hacked to bits .

was quite prepared for a laugh when I saw the title of this, but that is awful why do people assume they van have anything just because they want it at that moment in time grrrrr...

Oh, that's awful. I hate the fact that people seem to think they can just help themselves to other people's stuff.

Sorry to hear that.

We spent last Christmas wishing people would come and nick bits of our holly hedge which was massively overgrown. In the end we resorted to trimming it in the summer and threw three skiploads away.

Oh, that's horrible! Hope you manage to get it back to a good shape.

Gits! I've been temtpted in the past myself but would never actually do it. I bet they steal pumpkins too.

shit! I feela s indignant foryoua swhen they stole my pumpkin
arses

Not quite as horrendous, but I remember telling a neighbour at my old house that she could have some cuttings from my cotton lavendar bushes I'd carefully grown from seedlings out the front and about the only thing I'd grown successfully (was really proud of them - yes I know it's naff, but I'm not a gardener). I expected her to take a few small bits out from the back. She HACKED HUGE CHUNKS out of them and they were horribly lopsided ever since - I was gutted :(

do you klnow what thes prob about these things ?
they really ARENT crimes of the century but I didnt like the idea someoene had been so close to my front door without me knowing
spooky

I've been tempted to prune holly bushes in the woods but not from someone's garden! Which reminds me - must go and hack at ours. At least it's in the back where no one can get it.

I know what you mean Coddy - I think it's also a sign of complete disrespect for things that other people value. It's a kind of defacement of property, only not quite as obvious as a can of spray paint...

Indignant, that's exactly it. That they had been on my property and I had no idea. Also that the sods thought they could (well, I suppose they did!) just help themselves to something which someone's spent years growing. shame of it is that it was the only good plant in the whole blurdy garden!
If I hide barbed or razor wire among the remaining branches, no doubt I'd get into trouble if someone injured themselves whilst trying to steal more of it!
I'm enjoying at least contemplating doing just that though .

On a similar note...........DH and his BF spent 3 hours up and down ladders two weeks ago in the wind and the rain to set up lights on a tree the height of the house, in our front garden, it looked lovely .

A few days later some smart arse, pulled a strand of lights off the tree, fed them through a nearby hawthorn bush and attached them to the bumper of my BF's original VW beetle.

Now... I am sure that they felt excited and delighted by their handiwork, but it took DH and a good friend/neighbour hours to remove all the broken bulbs and remake connections where they had pulled quite hard and ripped the wires.

The worst bit ???

They had been in my space, does that make sense or am I over reacting ???

Exactly santa (may I call you santa? ) My (and my childrens) home is mine. My territory. I'm not at all comfortable with it being invaded. (So, maybe I'll just string the wire accross the gates instead!)

I feel the same about people who put leaflets under your windscreen wipers. They should keep their hands off private property, even if it is in the street. I was thinking of asking the Council if this could be classified as fly posting and if they would do something about it (saddo)

No, I am with you on the windscreen wipers, makes my blood boil . Only time I am ever tempted to litter, as to take it into the car is to give it house room, so to speak.

unbelievable!

Awful. Already annoyed about what some people think they can do, just because they want to. Hipe the holly got stuck into his/her hands the whole journey back - and that it really hurt them!

Thieving gits. I hate the way some people seem to think that wanting something automatically entitles them to take it.

I know how angry you must feel .. some Git lent over our admittedly low garden wall and nicked all my camelias (around 9 of them) .. some people are just b@st@rds

Just realised what my christmas name is .. t'weren't me

I'm so sorry, Levanna but when I read your topic I just burst out laughing. It is truly horrible, though. It isn't as if it costs an arm & a leg to go and buy a branch or 2 of holly! Idiots!

Levanna- some people think that the whole world owes them and they just take what they want regardless of the fact that it's not theirs to take- bloody thieves

...I wonder if it was the same person who cut and stole loads of our roses during the summer? Hmmm, what to do?!