Posted on 10/03/2021 7:20:19 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
AMERICAN FORK — Rude is the only way to describe what happened to a family in American Fork. Their prized pumpkin that came from their own garden is now missing.
Dusten Batty and her husband love planting and taking care of crops in their garden.
They have grown so much food lately that they have started putting a box outside their fence to give extra vegetables to their American Fork neighbors.
"I even zip-tied some bags to it so they can grab bags," said Batty with a smile.
What really got them excited this year, though, was their pumpkin harvest, especially one big pumpkin at nearly 60 pounds.
"It's the largest one we ever grew," said Batty. "Everybody sees it and everybody is going, 'I like your pumpkin. That is a huge pumpkin.' And it's like, yeah, we're getting excited, you know? But it disappeared!"
That's right, gone. That pumpkin was growing on the opposite side of their chain-link fence next to the sidewalk because the vine went through it.
Sometime in the middle of the night, someone snapped that vine and took off with it.
Batty had to tell her husband. "He's like, 'You got to be kidding me,'" she said.
That's how the big missing pumpkin mystery began, but it's not how it ended. Batty wanted to let the thief know that stealing a pumpkin isn't very nice. So, using plastic cups, she wrote a message in the very same fence.
"You are scum who stole our pumpkin," she said with a laugh while reading the message.
The sign her husband wrote wasn't so friendly. The sign says, "Your a lowlife who stole our pumpkin, burn in (expletive) ... "
"This is funny to me because I know they're going to get the message," she said.
That message just might be getting more attention than the big pumpkin itself. However, it's a message that Batty hopes really grows.
"I hope they feel they did wrong and hopefully they don't do it again," she said. "Respect other people's property."
The Batty family should get cousin Roy to find the thief.
That’s the first thing that came to my mind.
“Your a lowlife who stole our pumpkin, burn in (expletive) ...”
Excoriating thieves and irritating grammarians all in one fell swoop.
Was growing on the other side of the fence, ie may not have been on their property but public property?
Would be hard to steal and hide a 60lb pumpkin, no?
First place I’d look would be at the Farmer’s Markets in the next few towns over.
> “I hope they feel they did wrong and hopefully they don’t do it again,” she said. <
Sorry, lady, but that’s unlikely. Liberals have watered down American values too much. So it’s more likely that you’ll get a rock through your window.
It’s not Ike’s America anymore.
There is always that one loser a-hole that ruins other people’s good times.
It may not be everytime or,even most of the time.
But the bad apple will be along sometime.
Well, they were basically feeding cats or birds. You feed them and they keep coming back. After a while since they expended no money or labor to create the food, they lose all respect for the people providing it. I used to serve at the food kitchen until I realized that no one had to pray before eating and young healthy men were walking in off the street to eat free food. We quit feeding the birds when we realized that one species would claim the feeding and run off all the other birds. One year it was one male goldfinch who kept the feeder for all his hens. Another year it was cow birds which are despicable anyway.
Look for someone with a really big pie.
“They have grown so much food lately that they have started putting a box outside their fence to give extra vegetables to their American Fork neighbors.
“I even zip-tied some bags to it so they can grab bags,” said Batty with a smile.”
Let’s put this in perspective; they make a point of giving away their vegetables. They have a pumpkin growing outside their fence and someone takes it. Maybe they don’t have a thief. Maybe they have someone who didn’t realize the pumpkin had any significance.
That’s a beauty!
I've always found small pumpkins make the best pie
The Great Pumpkin and Charlie Brown will get this lowlife!
I saw a ‘have you seen me’ notice of it on an eggnog carton! :/
of = for
I grew 112 pumpkins one year, small to large. I started lining them up in the patch and marched them down the front lawn, moving during the night about 8 feet per night. The smaller ones made a turn and climbed up onto our deck rail. They only moved a couple feet per night.
By Halloween they had marched 150’from the patch to line our drive and line the rail.
Hangs free garden produce on the fence. Bags it and zip ties it there for the taking. Shocked when someone takes the pumpkin there right beside the fence. Writes an angry message by sticking hundreds of plastic cups in the fence.
I think I know who they voted for.
Destroy the taboo structure of a culture and you have ended that culture. Tolerance of evil allows evil to rule, eventually.
I think that’s Linus in the pumpkin patch and not Charlie Brown. I love both characters.
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