I Caught a Thief

@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

So true Janet, we say nothing to the kids of our neighbors if we see them picking the berries... they are kid and we did the same in the past.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

4 Oct 15

@PainsOnSlate Hello, I am so glad to see you here, I am going to your profile to follow you.

PaintsOnSlate

@PainsOnSlate (21852)

• Canada

3 Oct 15

@LadyDuck good to see you Anna. I just joined, was Campinsanity at the old place.

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topffer

@topffer (42156)

• France

3 Oct 15

It reminds me the time when I was at elementary school and we were entering in a garden in front of the school to pick the cherries in June

. I pick blackberries and mushrooms in public forests (as you know, it is legal in France), but I would not do it in a private garden. I have a chestnut tree in a garden in the countryside, and every year an old neighbor steals my chestnuts. He is a poor man with a small pension, and I have never said anything

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topffer

@topffer (42156)

• France

3 Oct 15

@LadyDuck We can pick up to 5 kg of mushrooms/day/family in forests owned by the state. There is a lot of people looking for mushrooms in autumn, and I never found 5 kg the same day. Picking berries in a garden is stealing, and it is even more stupid if there is a wood not far where she can pick some.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

@topffer We are allowed to pick up the same quantity of mushrooms here. I think this women acted in a childish way.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

It's also legal in Switzerland to pick berries, for mushrooms is another story. What is ridiculous is that 200 meters from our homes there is a little forest where you can find any kind of berries. I have to think she is a lazy lady, surely not a poor lady.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

3 Oct 15

She was probably trying to relive her youth and was dreaming of when she was a child.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

This can be, she was eating the berries like the children do. Her face turned pink when she noticed I was looking at her.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

3 Oct 15

@LadyDuck She is probably still hiding around the corner like a little schoolgirl waiting for a chance to sneak back.

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hereandthere

@hereandthere (45645)

• Philippines

3 Oct 15

at least it's not stealing deliveries left on doorsteps. the other night i was reading this news article about it. the number of people sharing their own experience in the comments left me speechless.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

I do not believe she would ever do something like this. She thought nobody was there and it was a great thing to try something she did when she was a kid.

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Morgan

@OneOfMany (12150)

• United States

3 Oct 15

I've thought that people need delivery cages on their porches, but I then thought that kids might put animals in them and it could lead to problems. So I don't know what the solution would be.

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Gary Marsh

@garymarsh6 (23404)

• United Kingdom

3 Oct 15

OH Dear. I remember scrumping strawberries from the vicarage gardens when I was about 8 years old. You will be pleased to know I have never done it since! So I guess I am guilty as charged too!

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

@garymarsh6 I suppose that not only the grass of the neighbor is greener.

I am curious to know if she lives nearby, I am pretty sure it's the case.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

You are not guilty Gary, I remember that with my cousins we picked up strawberries in a nearby garden, but we were no older than 10.

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Gary Marsh

@garymarsh6 (23404)

• United Kingdom

3 Oct 15

@LadyDuck Well they probably tasted a whole lot better!

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JENNY ARCHER

@bookbar (1609)

• Sudbury, England

3 Oct 15

@ladyDuck. Perhaps she just wanted Organic, and thought garden grown, surely must be for her 'scrumping' adventure, ..or she may even have been simply chasing her 'lost youth' when we all have a little scrumping experience...but somehow never attributed it to 'thieving'... and remember the old saying: "fur coat,No knickers"..appearances, aren't always what they seem

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

So true, I do not know what pushed her to stop and start to eat berries stealing them from a private garden. Tomorrow the lady who owns the garden will tell me that the kids of the neighbors have taken her berries... I think I have to tell her.

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Gary Marsh

@garymarsh6 (23404)

• United Kingdom

3 Oct 15

Haha Jenny I have not heard that saying for quite a while! She is all fur coat and no knickers! LOL

AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

3 Oct 15

I like to think she was hungry and needed the food. I hope that is true anyway. Rather mean to steal people's berries unless you were starving.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

She was surely not starving, nor hungry, I am sure she was eating berries for gluttony. She was an elegant lady, in her mid sixty I think.

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44998)

• Preston, England

3 Oct 15

gosh, taking them in parks is fine but out of private gardens is really quite disgusting behaviour.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

I could not believe my eyes, I have never seen something similar here.

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kataomoi

@kataomoi (708)

• Japan

3 Oct 15

Yeah, I've seen those people before. My family had an orange tree before and people always stole from us. It wasn't such a big deal though... as long as they didn't climb over our fence, we didn't report or chase them off.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

This happens all the time with kids, they steal the fruits and berries, but I never saw an elegant lady gobbling berries like a kid.

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (51452)

• Canada

3 Oct 15

Maybe you were in the right place at the right time. Hopefully that is the last that you will see of her.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

I hope so, I know that I would be upset if someone came and pick up my berries. I can give them to the kids of my neighbors, but I do not allow them to pick them up themselves.

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DW Davis

@DWDavis (25805)

• United States

3 Oct 15

It does seem rather odd that she would be out stealing berries in the middle of a rain storm. She must have thought no one would notice her.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

This is what I think, she must leave not far from here and took a walk while it was not raining.

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DW Davis

@DWDavis (25805)

• United States

3 Oct 15

@LadyDuck That sounds like a reasonable explanation.

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AbbyGreenhill

@AbbyGreenhill (45494)

• United States

3 Oct 15

I wonder how many thorns she got stuck with.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

Abby, that was the divine punishment for stealing berries.

@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

@AbbyGreenhill I told to the other eight home owners that we have to put a sign "private road", that would be enough to prevent people to walk around.

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AbbyGreenhill

@AbbyGreenhill (45494)

• United States

3 Oct 15

@LadyDuck Maybe you all need to put up 'no berry stealing area' signs.

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Alfredo Rossi

@amadeo (111938)

• United States

3 Oct 15

when as a child we took grapes,apples etc.Guess some of us had this experience

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

4 Oct 15

LOL, I also took grapes, there were plenty where my grandparents lived. I think that this is pretty normal for kids... but an old elegant lady sounds weird.

Catherine

@bluesa (15022)

• Johannesburg, South Africa

3 Oct 15

That is weird. If she was not starving, then maybe she could have asked your neighbour if she could pick some berries.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

My neighbor was not at home and she was an elegant lady, surely not a starving homeless. She was eating the berries with the pleasure of kids. She surely saw the berries and did not resist. She had a shock when she noticed I was watching.

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youless

@youless (112561)

• Guangzhou, China

6 Nov 15

I can't believe that such an old lady would steal raspberries and blackberries. She must be so embarrassed since you caught her. It was a shame on her. I don't know why she had to do so, she is not a child any more and she should know what is right and wrong to do. Perhaps she is so old and therefore her mind is not clear?

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youless

@youless (112561)

• Guangzhou, China

7 Nov 15

@LadyDuck Yeah, it doesn't make a sense to steal raspberries and blackberries for an old granny. People usually steal money rather than the fruit like these.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

6 Nov 15

Those are words of wisdom, you must be right, she is old and her mind is not always clear.

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rebel_woman06

@SIMPLYD (90721)

• Philippines

3 Oct 15

If she appears poor maybe you can say that she's hungry and needs even those raspberries to eat . But if she is decent looking , then you will wonder "how she can do that little thought it may , but we call it still stealing .

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rebel_woman06

@SIMPLYD (90721)

• Philippines

5 Oct 15

@LadyDuck Oh !

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 15

No, she is not a poor lady, she is a well dressed elegant lady that wanted to eat berries and thought that nobody was around.

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sofs

@sofssu (23662)

•

4 Oct 15

Was she a poor old woman by any chance? I sometime pretend that I didn't see anything when I see poor people picking extra fruits from the gardens.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

4 Oct 15

No she was not a poor old woman, she was an old well dressed and elegant lady stealing from a private garden.

Cahaya

@cahaya1983 (11116)

• Malaysia

6 Oct 15

I wouldn't be surprised to see a kid doing that, but an old lady? That's weird. Can't help wondering how long she has been doing that.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

6 Oct 15

You are right, my neighbor thought that the kids robbed the berries, now I think if she always did this.

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MANISH K RAO

@mkrnex (785)

• Bangalore, India

5 Oct 15

Hey its funny to hear. Such activities are done by children especially boys. But a granny, she must be really hungry or having a sudden craving for it. In my place there are no raspberries as climate doesn't allow it. But mangoes are found in abundance.

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@LadyDuck (471968)

• Switzerland

5 Oct 15

I wonder if she wanted to go back with memories and try something she did when she was a kid. I am sure she was ashamed when she noticed I was watching.

MANISH K RAO

@mkrnex (785)

• Bangalore, India

5 Oct 15

@LadyDuck Ya, everyone will be ashamed when caught in a act. How can she be cheery when you caught her red handed

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Marsha

@MarshaMusselman (38865)

• Midland, Michigan

5 Oct 15

Good thing you got your mail when you did, or she may have gotten a larger portion of berries than she did get. Sometimes people think things not nailed down are free for the taking. It seems there are those sorts of people the world over and not only in certain cities or countries. Did you ever tell your neighbor about that lady?

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