CUCUMBER THEFT!
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,25918893-1246,00.html
A spate of cucumber thefts has Adelaide police in a pickle. More than $10,000 worth of cucumbers have been stolen in 11 separate robberies in the past three months.
Thieves have targeted market gardens north of Adelaide, with police saying the latest robbery - of 50 bags of cucumbers - was reported from a glasshouse at Virginia at the weekend.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25886628-5006301,00.html
Theives have stolen 34 buckets of cucumbers from a northern suburbs grower. The theft happened at a Buckland Park property sometime on Sunday night or Monday morning.
The victim picked 34 buckets of cucumbers on Sunday, to be collected for market on Monday, but thieves stole the entire lot.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/12/2653384.htm
Police say a grower could be responsible for the theft of more than $10,000 worth of cucumbers in Adelaide's north. There have been 12 separate cucumber robberies during the past three months, the most recent involving 150 bags on Tuesday night.
I imagine that the police are really confused by this. The question isn't why someone would want to steal cucumbers, (because according to the Bureau of Meteorology, South Australia is suffering from drought) but how you track down said cucumbers.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/drought.shtml
The obvious lame puns abound in the Advertiser such as the above "cucumber thefts has Adelaide police in a pickle" but I note that not even a News Corporation newspaper have stooped to using the phrase "over a barrel" with the memories of Snowtown still looming in the memory of South Australians.
These cucumber thefts reminded me of a raid on an olive grove in May last year:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23733873-2,00.html
Busy thieves have stripped an entire olive grove of its fruit in an overnight raid, the latest of a series of such bizarre thefts.
Quentin Von Essen, who runs an olive grove in Lovedale, in NSW's Hunter Valley, was alarmed to find that all but two of his 400 trees had been stripped of their olives earlier this month.
Mr Von Essen said he was dumbfounded how it could have happened without anyone noticing. "It would take approximately six people up to three days to pick our olive grove," he said.
Have we as a nation progressed at all... ever? Some convicts, ne'er do wells, ruffians, rapscallions, that arrived to these shores on the First Fleet on that day in 1788 were sent out here because of petty larceny, thievery, and pickpocketness. It makes me wonder in the 21st Century in a supposedly more enlightened time whether or not we actually have made any progess as a nation... if we're stealing cucumbers and olives I would suggest not.
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