Posted on 07/20/2014 10:04:47 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Romanian arrived at his holiday home to find it had disappeared and a field of corn had been planted in its place
A Romanian visited his holiday home only to find a completely empty plot of land with a field of corn planted in its place after his house had been stolen by thieves.
Police in the Romanian port city of Braila got a call from Andy Pascali, 40, complaining that his holiday house on the Danube Delta had been stolen.
At first they thought it was a joke, but when they turned up at the nearby village of Baldovinesti they found not only that there was no property where there should have been a three-bedroom building, but that a field of ready-to-harvest corn had been planted in its place.
A shocked Mr Pascali, who posted the image of the cornfield on his Facebook page, said: 'I think this could only happen in Romania.
'My entire house has been stolen and my neighbours have taken advantage of the opportunity to plant a field of corn instead. Absolutely incredible.'
He said the theft should be a warning to anybody who might be thinking about buying a holiday home in the country that they should make regular checks to make sure it was still there....
He said that he believed the crooks had probably managed to recycle just about everything after slowly taking the house apart while he was not there....
He added: 'I had been worried about thieves maybe breaking in and stealing the television or something, and so I put a barbed wire fence up around the house for added security. But they stole that as well.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Perhaps he needs to check with the local chapter of the eco-left, sounds just like their dream, a clean sweep, green-style!
When he went out to discuss the problem with the owner the house was gone
El Centro is about 12 miles from the Mexican border
My father in law bought some water front lots on a Texas bay years ago. My husband and i went down to look at them and the lots were gone. They had been oyster reefs and the oyster shells had been dug out and sold for road ways. All that was left were holes. Kinda shocking.
He looks like a Romanian. Not sure I’d believe his story.
That is a pretty house. That is ashamed that the house was destroyed and removed for Corn. Sheesh they took everything including the Kitchen Sink.
this happened to a guy’s vacation house in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California a couple years ago. the thieves also stole his well pump (which was installed a long ways down inside the well shaft)
He makes it sound bad but a notice was duly posted in the basement of city hall that his house was slated for removal to make way for an inter-galactic highway.
Wow...the well pump...those guys were REALLY motivated.
Sometimes you wonder if they put that effort in to something legit would they be really successful.
Gypsies....
...tramps and thieves...
That’s possible:
They could have changed its designation on the tax rolls to “mobile home” and then wheeled it away.
I have been to Romania and love my Romanian friends, but as for the gypsies, they don’t plant, so maybe it was really a thorough clean-up job, so I suggest someone with Hungarian extractions, that part of the population is very, very neat!
(Kidding, folks.)
I feel for him. My parents have land in the provinces of the Philippines and squatters are a problem. That’s why we live in the USA, we have property rights.
Oh, scratch that...
...every night the men would come around
and take the siding down...
“Coming Soon To A Theater Or Drive-In near You”!!!!!!!!!!
A friend of my dad did this to a couple that he was angry at, when they returned from a week away, there was only a bare dirt patch, in the middle of a yard of grass.
I wonder if they dismantled the house or just moved it intact and it is in one piece somewhere else with a new paint job.
Gypsies.
Keyser Söze
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