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Reward offered in vandalization of farm equipment in Montgomery Co. (Damascus, Maryland)
WTOP News ^ | 5/20/2022 | Jack Pointer

Posted on 05/23/2022 6:54:06 AM PDT by fruser1

A farmer in Montgomery County, Maryland, is offering a reward of up to $50,000 to find the person who vandalized their farm equipment last month.

on the night of April 21 and was spotted climbing on top of a tanker truck used for fertilizing fields.

The next day, the farm’s owner found that the tanker had been contaminated with herbicide, but only after the farmer had used the truck to fertilize about 1,000 acres of corn.

(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agriculture; ecoterrrorism; farming; maryland
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It COULD be another farmer looking to buy this farmer out.


41 posted on 05/23/2022 9:59:06 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: fruser1

I would start with the fertilizer supplier. They may have shipped the wrong the product.


42 posted on 05/23/2022 10:03:35 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: fruser1

too risky or no food plants left to burn? time for them to start attacking individual farmers.


43 posted on 05/23/2022 10:14:55 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: RedMonqey

More likely involved local belligerents.


A plea for a hot lead and copper enema ....


44 posted on 05/23/2022 11:19:57 AM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights .........It is the LAW. )
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To: ronniesgal

Sounds like eco-terrorist to me, as well.

On a side note, someone needs to tell the idiot “writer” of this that the pronoun “their” is plural, so he should have used the singular “his” for the antecedent, the singular noun “farmer.”


45 posted on 05/23/2022 11:33:15 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: alternatives?
Buying that much herbicide is not cheap and should be tracible. Perhaps it was stolen but that would be another crime.

Nah. You can go to TSC and buy a gallon of 50% glyphosate or 2,4-d + trichlophyr for $150 or less. And you wouldn’t need much.

46 posted on 05/23/2022 11:52:19 AM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare)
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To: fruser1

I am going with eco terrorist. Whoever it is should be shot on sight.


47 posted on 05/23/2022 12:16:04 PM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: S.O.S121.500

33 miles from downtown DC. Maybe a housing developer.


48 posted on 05/23/2022 2:51:14 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: woodbutcher1963

Good luck buying it in Montgomery County, MD with their organic herbicide and pesticide laws.


49 posted on 05/23/2022 2:57:25 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: S.O.S121.500

My solution.


50 posted on 05/23/2022 3:25:46 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
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To: ryderann
Farmland is hardly selling at firesale prices.

Most likely, the perp is some environmentalist goober.

51 posted on 05/23/2022 3:28:49 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: fruser1

I wonder if the field will have to be left fallow for how long. The herbicide could have been in the farmer’s barn, I grew up in Montgomery County, Maryland during the Depression. It is next to DC. As a young kid I would walk for miles through abandoned farms with my .22 or .410; sometime bring home a rabbit or squirrel or two for dinner.


52 posted on 05/23/2022 4:24:55 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: carikadon

Yes.
They are trying to recreate the Holodomor in the U.S.


53 posted on 05/23/2022 6:51:24 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: carikadon

Yes.
They are trying to recreate the Holodomor in the U.S.


54 posted on 05/23/2022 6:55:16 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: carikadon

Yes.
They are trying to recreate the Holodomor in the U.S.


55 posted on 05/23/2022 6:55:16 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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