Posted on 09/15/2009 3:14:12 PM PDT by GQuagmire
GREENLAND, N.H. — Charlie Ireland has been growing corn, tomatoes, beans and "you name it" behind his Post Road home and selling it from a stand out front for four years. But due to thefts from his honor system cash box, the stand he converted from a boat trailer, bought from a divorcing friend, is shuttered forever, reports the Portsmouth Herald.
A sign out front reads, "Due to the theft problem I was forced to close for good. To the honest people, thanks for your business."
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Hope & Change.
Obama’s America.
The old guy was probably a racist who needs to have his healthcare rationed.
Sick. The producers are being punished in this country.
Definite ‘Coarsening of the culture’. probably the Obama cult of entitled youths jealous of the ‘rich, greedy farmer’. Yes we can-—steal your produce!
Not cool at all...
But...
What goes around, comes around....
Greed creates poverty of the soul...
That’s too bad. There are a couple of old gents up the road from me who put their tomatoes out each summer, with a scale and a cash box. They probably wouldn’t mind if someone just took the tomatoes.
The serious produce stands have staff.
I remember stands like that in NH and even in MA where you get a pint of blueberries and put a couple dollars into a box.
That just reminded me of a part of Americana which has gone the way of the Dodo Bird.
Anyone remember when just about all newspapers were sold from honor system vending boxes?
I am sure all those White Southerners clinging to their Bibles and guns are the problem.
Greenland is next to Portsmouth a libtard stronghold.
There’s a sweet potato vendor off south from here who sells a 10-lb. bag for $2, drop the $2 in the box if there’s not a kid around to take your money. I guess it makes him more than the cost of the sweet potatoes.
Reminds me that I need to cook and freeze sweet potatoes. We use them all winter.
Ultimately, the producers simply quit.
Whether at a produce stand or in some larger sense.
There’s a coastal oyster bar a few miles away from my home. The cooler has a wide assortment of beers and soft drinks and several beer taps stick out of the wall.
It operates on the honor system.
On leaving, customers tell the cashier what they consumed.
It has been this way for 25 years. It must drive the owner’s accountants crazy.
Well as Obama told Joe the Plumber, from those that have to those that don’t. They just eliminated the goverment middleman.......
Obama and his thieves will put the rest of us out of business.
I remember reading a story this summer about a reporter driving out into the country and finding this produce stand that worked on the honor system.
She gave detailed directions to the place in the newspaper. I remember thinking will that place is now toast.
I wonder if they are one and the same produce stands. Pretty sad if a stupid reporter ruined something nice. Like that’s never happened before.
We have a lot of local stands around here, too. It would be sad to them close up for something like theft.
No problem. A Weatherby .300 Magnum in the weeds. That should handle it, although the cleanup could be messy!
I visit a Panera’s sometimes. I see guys walk in with hidden coffee cups, fill up at the island, take a table, grab a newspaper from the sale rack, read it, refill the cup several times, and either take the paper or dump it. I told the manager. He didn’t care. And these are business guys in ties with computers etc. Weird!
I finally remember. She was a newspaper reporter that wrote the story in a big city news paper, Boston I believe. Where I heard her was NPR, she described the farm, the place where to put the money, the fact that there was cash visible then gave turn by turn directions on national radio.
I was thinking that if I was the farmer, I would hire a lawyer and stock up on ammo.
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