Bold "neighbours"

I'd tell em it was enhanced with estrogen to increase female cow growth...and ask if they had been feeling alittle feminine since the reunion.

The original message is sure a brazen act, ironic & humorus and sad and wrong all at the same time. The world won't end because you are missing a few dozen ears of field corn, but it's not right to just go help yourself to the neighbor's crops because you are throwing a party. Then the commnet made implys they plan to steal more corn this coming year yet again...

I suppose in the old govt run communist countries, the crops belonged to the govt, not the neighbor, so helping yourself to a few ears was no big deal - you weren't stealing from your neighbor, you were stealing from the uncaring govt.... Not an excuss, but a reasoning of how such behaviour could easily start. we see such type of behaviour here in the USA as well, and Canada too I'm sure. Steal a little extra unemployment or othr govt services, it's not harming anyone it's just free govt money.... No, not right at all, but how those actions evolve into something that is accepted.

What a funny/sad story.

--->Paul

I understand the OP, not my neighbors My kids would be doing some hard chores for anyone they stole berries from, with me watching them.

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LisaInN.Idaho,

I think you misunderstood me. I said "it is wrong here and it should be". I can understand completely. However I have traveled a bit and can easily see how this could be a misunderstanding. As for you implying that I would somehow condone kidnapping, do really think I would just from reading that little post of mine? For crying out loud girl, get real.

Honestly, some of you people sound like you never been out of your own neighborhood and think your little town is the center of the world. If you are ever in another country far away where you don't know the customs or the language well you sure would want people to cut you a little slack and explain the customs to you when you unintentionally offend someone terribly. And believe me if you were there for more than just a week, you would.

I can't believe a few ears of stupid corn could make some of you so angry. You'd think he kidnapped poor little LisaIn.Idaho for a wife!

Heck maybe you should invite the man and his wife over for dinner. Serve him the best sweet corn you can find. The subject of your lousy stinking sucky field corn would eventually come up and then you could explain and you'd probably never have the problem again and end up liking the guy and being friends!

And maybe convincing them to GROW THEIR OWN CORN.

and here I can't get ANYONE to come pick my extras....

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It's not that I don't like mankind, I just like nature a whole lot more.

Don't get your undies all up in a twist, dude. I was just drawing a parallel. I've also traveled a good bit and lived in many places and I know try and behave as I should in other countries. The "bold neighbors" in the OP have lived here for some time and should, at this point know that taking corn here is wrong.
Maybe you missed the point in the OP that he was pointing out the boldness of the neighbors in that they not only took his corn...they had the temerity to complain about it and that it had ruined their party!

I was at work one day we get planer shavings from the plant. THey sell them when we pick up the dumpster 100 dollars for 40 yards of shavings. We have whats not sold stockpiled and tarped for wet weather. In wet times we use them on the dirt roads for trucks to travel on to the working face of the landfill. We also sell from the pile. I have a backhoe I leave there incase of it. I get 5 bucks a scoopfor dry shavings I keep 2.50 for the use of the loader and the company gets 2.50. It works out to a good amount each year.

I was at work everyone was either in the pit or out getting dumpsters when I hear the landfill doge Bonehead barking. WHile I was listening to an engne these horse people just come in and started shoveling their trailer full. THe man got mad when I confronted them. He said well your not loading it so iguess its free. I told him ists dobled about 10 bucks a yard now.

We are accomdating on payment to , if its someone thats in need of it we will take manure or let them have it if they ask.

Well Alice in T/M , I'd have to agree with you , thats pretty much the norm around here. Most of the few who grow corn plant the few roadside rows in Sweet corn just knowing that it's going to come up missing and if not then they got a bonus that season. Not saying it's right , but just saying it's pretty common and not just here , pretty much everywhere I've lived and thats been a few places.

Could always tell them the corn had been sprayed with a new experimental chemical to kill bugs and unfortunitly they had just discovered that it caused cancer.

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Nah I'm patient. They're surrounded by soybeans this year, don't know what they'll make of that. Hopefully wheat next year. If I see any corn missing along the line in 2013, I'll introduce them to the power of liquid manure some hot long weekend. ;-)

Doesn't matter that much to me, I have a couple of neighbour ladies that take more corn every year for their fall decorations, of course they ASK first. Just the brazenness (sp?) that gets me.

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If I had to plant extra crops, so other people could steal for themselves, I'd purchase the "Ex-lax" brand of seeds.

I saw a farmer in a feild of sesame seed one time. I didnt know what it was. I stopped and asked him about what it was and if I could buy a few stems of it for a friends son s ag class. He said since I was nice enought to ask he got me a load of whole plants. He told me that tourist will stop and pick what they want. Said the week before the feild that was about to be harvested he had to run a family of foriengers out of his feild. They had a 16 foot trailer with 5 foot sides stacked full.

You think 20 years isn't enough time for them to figure out stealing other people's things is wrong?

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As to us going to other countries, and somma us never being away from our small towns. Well, WHATS WRONG WITH THAT? Thats the way it USED to be. Just cause you 2 got an extended education by going to wherever it is you wanted to go.. WELL
The difference is, You didnt stay there. These neighbors if his are liveing here. Ive been in a foriegn country, and yes, no doubt I made mistakes according to the local mores, BUT they realized I had come for their benifit, and most important of all, THAT I WOULDNT BE STAYING THERE. That makes a big difference. Down here in Okieland. They have 2 differences for notherners who come here. Yankees, who come, visit AND LEAVE, and ---- Yankees, Who come AND STAY.

There really isn't an excuse. They stole the corn. Plain and simple. A frank conversation with them wouldn't hurt. We posted No trespassing signs on our property after several "univited guest" decided to help themselves to veggies and another group decided it was OK to ride their horses all over our property. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind people riding on our property WITH PERMISSION. These folks would wait for us to leave the farm, then saddle up, and ride the trails. We caught them when hubby put his wildlife cameras in the woods. After posting the signs (one right on the fence in their backyard), they came over to introduce themselves and ask to ride. I said "sorry, you should have asked before you just started doing it." They moved finally.....and now it is peaceful again.....

Well I will say this. I can sure see times are changing and deffinatly not for the better. Use to be when a nieghbor would help a nieghbor and I don't mean just when they were hurt or ill. If they had family in , they would give them things from thier gardens and such to help feed them. I do believe they should have asked before they just took the corn at least then they would have known it was field corn and not sweet corn. All I can say is I'm really glad I have the nieghbors I have and not some of the posters I've seen on here. It almost shames me to think that I live in a rural area and people that live in the same kinds of areas around this country would post some of the comments they are posting. Like I have said already they should have asked first , but the string 'em up attitudes I see from some just appalls me.

Yep Times Thier A Changing and Thats For Sure!!!!!!

Sounds like a simple case of, " you've got lots, so its OK to steal"

In my rural neighborhood, tourists act like the whole area is free range. Apple trees near the road are for their use. Open fields are there for their 4 wheelers or snowmobiles. I've had people in motor homes park in the entranceway to a field.

When ordered off my property, they are often stunned, "But you have so much, it isn't fenced, it isn't posted.......etc". So, I started asking for their address so the next time I was in their area, I could pitch a tent in their front yard or use their BBQ grill. They can see that they don't want me to use theirs, but fine to use mine.

Do these neighbors of yours know they are talking to the brother of the owner of the corn field?

Stealing is stealing all over the world. With the exception of a few primitive cultures that do not have ownership, all the modern cultures know what stealing is.
Turning your family reunion into a corn roast at your neighbors expense is not feeding your hungry family and is not gleaning.
I wonder how the tradition of planting outside rows of sweet corn for thieves got started. Perhaps after not being able to catch the thieves farmers just gave up and accepted it as the status quo. Kind of like our political system.

Something about this thread was picking at my brain and I just thought of why.

Matthew 12

Lord of the Sabbath
1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”

Were they stealing or was it customary to grab a few handfulls of someones grain as you walked by?

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