Posted on 07/27/2016 4:52:26 PM PDT by Loyalist
A senior in Truro, N.S., is thanking police after an officer recovered a bag of beets from an intoxicated cyclist which may have been stolen from her community garden plot.
Olga McCabe-Cain said she arrived at the King Street community garden on the site of the former St. Mary's Elementary School in Truro at around 7 p.m. on Wednesday, only to discover that a number of her beet plants were missing.
"It was so disappointing," McCabe-Cain said. "They cleaned the row right out nicely — even padded it over — and left one bunch of beets at the end."
She said she had given up on finding them again, when the unexpected happened.
The beets were, apparently, returned.
Intoxicated cyclist
Hearing the news coverage about the apparent theft, Truro police Const. Kelly Quinn recalled she had spotted a highly intoxicated cyclist weaving in and out of traffic on Monday.
When she went to arrest him, the man tossed a bag over the Salmon River bridge. That bag was full of beets.
Truro police Chief Dave MacNeil said there's no way to prove that the recovered beets were stolen.
There's no serial numbers on beets. There's no DNA evidence, but it's one of those things, it's pretty highly suspect, I mean, it's an odd vegetable to begin with," he said.
On Tuesday, MacNeil said Quinn took the time on her day off to return to the site of the arrest, retrieve the beets and give them to McCabe-Cain.
"She's an excellent police officer and a real caring and giving person and felt that it wasn't right," MacNeil said. "It was an injustice, and she wanted to make it right by returning the vegetables."
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Beets are yummy.
I love Virginia beets but North Carolina beets taste like dirt.
A nice pickled beet right out of the fridge is very good bite. But, as you said, they will turn everything for miles a deep red.
Was Dr. Dre notified?
>>She rents some space to grow her garden and the produce belongs to her. How is this “Socialist”?<<
I was being facetious. In rereading it didn’t carry well. Oh well.
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