Kleptobotany
June 27th, 2006 | by Todd W |A couple of weeks ago, we had our front yard landscapped. It looks nice: new trim, extended beds, lots of new plants and so on. Down by the mail box, we had three examples of Japanese Blood Grass. They looked really good.
Until I came out to get the mail on Saturday and noted three gaping holes where the plants used to be.
Someone stole my plants!
I mean, what is that!?
And I don’t think it was a bunch of kids screwing around. The plants have been neatly excavated, roots preserved, and without a stray clot of dirt in the road, sidewalk or driveway. Someone literally uprooted them in a way to maintain the health of the plants.
We’re talking $30 in plants here, so it wasn’t like we planted some super exotic rare thing that feeds on the hard-to-find rotting carcass of the Amazonian squeek monkey. It’s a patch of grass!
Unreal.
