I planted four young dogwood trees along the edge of my property by the street. Someone came during the night and dug up and stole one, then came back a few weeks later and did the same thing, stealing a second one! I’d never in my life heard of someone stealing trees, but I didn’t replace them because I lost about $100 do to the thefts. Sad, because I was just trying to make my neighborhood look nicer.
The best time to plant a tree, is twenty years ago! I don't know who to attribute that saying to, but is has stuck in my head for years. Frankly because it is so true
I think it's a joke that these police investigated plants missing ......for a year. Lol it really speaks to the police out there. Meanwhile Brett favre and his ridge Republican buddies who stole millions of dollars from welfare they get to walk around free nope no you're long investigation there. Lol
@@allalala9916 you should see how many politicians and pastors steal on a basis , stealing is only wrong when it's not a billionaire corporation stealing through economic loopholes
It's so sad to see people diving to these lows. To steal is so degrading. To involve your children in this crime is even worse. Hopefully, their arrests will teach them never to steal again! ??
and who pays for it the shoppers do . Friday I was shopping in my local lowes and a man passed right by us in the garden center with a lawnmower and weedeater and strolled right on out. it's infuriating that they get stuff and we pay fir it.
@@lorraineyanez4301 I work for Lowes in a rural area. You would be amazed at the empty packaging we find each day. And just the other day a man tried to walk out with a mechanic set even after conversing with me. He seen two of us at the exit doors dropped the merchandise and left the store at a pretty good speed. That's just one person we kept an eye on, while others made it out without being seen. Not only are shoppers paying the employees also in their pay.
Can you imagine the conversation the boyfriend is having with the other inmates: "What brought you back inside?" "Stealing plants" "Weed?" "Nope, just normal houseplants." ...
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@@LightBeing369 yea I'm sure you care so much it's just capitalism people having been doing this since the great recession or alcohol bandits in the 1920s you make shit expensive or illegal and an industry will revolve around it . Just look at the fake Gucci's and Louis Vuitton popping up
The daughter should just get community service (something that she actually has to put work into and can be teachable) for a few hundred hours. She's 15 and knows right from wrong, or at least knew what she was doing was wrong. She needs to know that there are consequences to making bad decisions.
I agree, but you have to give her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe her mother told her she already payed for the goods and they just needed to drive to the gate and collect them.
@@Lucas_Tulic .... I was thinking that, as well. Who knows if the daughter was under the impression her Mom paid for the plants (?) I don't feel it's okay I don't feel it's going to really serve a good purpose for that young girl to be punished for something that her mother and the boyfriend of the mother were doing.... she could be just an innocent bystander . I've seen that , I've seen Parents try to use their kids as a " shield " when stuff goes down and it's totally unfair to the children because they were just the bystander.
I work at a big box store and we're ripped off all the time it amazes me and angers me at the same time. Why people think that taking something that doesn't belong to them is OK. And a lot of times it isn't stealing to get drugs. They just want it so they take it.
I'm not excusing what they are doing but high rent's are a part of the problem. When the greedy landlord is squeezing you dry you turn to survival mode. A law should pass to force landlords to lower their rents. I have a friend who moved to a state where the rent's are actually affordable and there's less crime and less thief. I live in southern California where rent's are super expensive and car breakins and home invasions are extremely high and employers pay extremely low. Also stores are burglarized every day. Again I am not excusing their behavior but we have to take into consideration what is causing all of this in order to find a solution.
I think it's great....big box stores took away all the millions of small family stores all over America...and now enslaves us all to work for them for far less doing the same things our grandparents used to do for themselves. I hope everyone robs the big box stores until they fail and people can be free agyto make our own buisnesses locally to thrive again. Family stores, coffee shops, ice creameries, clothing stores, department stores, grocery stores were almost all owned and operated by American families locally....now they pay you crappy wages and treat you like a number to do what we used to do for ourselves. Quit getting mad because of theft at you slave master's slave worker camp.
@@winning3329 Thank you for your wisdom because so many people don't see the hypocrisy in themselves when it's poor people stealing. They want the book thrown at them and locked under the jail. No one has the same energy when theives on Wall Street and Pennsylvania Ave steal steal. Poor people steal to survive. Not everyone who is poor is on drugs.
I was thinking the same. The economy is crushing so many of us. My mom keeps saying it’s the “devil” I keep saying, it’s the recession. Ppl are going crazy, even the types of people we don’t normally expect….like blond Caucasian women. She def put her own twist on stealing tho!
@@anthonynicholson5523 Really??? It isn't right to steal from a big box store just like it isn't right to steal from a mom and pops store. And thank you very much 😊 I love my job. I never feel like I'm going into work. It just feels like another day out. Not many people can say that and I feel blessed that I can. Have a great day!!! I know I will.
@@lovethyneighbor1955 seems like you don't take your name seriously. Let's not forget that crime rates in Republican states are way higher than in Democrat run States.
Around 30 years ago in the grocery store I worked at , some customer was going down the bread aisle and squeezing every loaf of bread 2-3 times every week. . 🙄 😂We couldn't find out who it was . 🤔 It was hundreds and hundreds of dollars. We also had a regular customer coming in who would eat muffin tops off the muffins from the bakery , then leave the bottoms on the shelves down the aisles . I found them frequently. 💯😭
WOW! They weren't kidding around stealing all these plants. You wonder where people get these ideas - I've seen plants outside stores and throwing them in my car never came to my mind. The world is becoming very sick. Throw the book at her.
The other kind of plant thief drives around a neighborhood and notes the yards and porches with a lot of nice plants. The thief comes back in the middle of the night and steals the plants and then sells them at a flea market OR is somebody's "landscaper" who has stolen the plants and they end up in somebody's yard. Rinse. Repeat.
I used to work at Home Depot 25 years ago while I was in grad school and this stuff happened all the time. It’s nothing new. It’s just that you see it on RU-vid and such now 24/7.
What's crazy about this story is that I've seen several of these stores that leave their plants out front not water them and they all just die, I always think to myself what a waste 30 or 40 plants sitting out front and they're all dead, they waste more than what this woman stole. I'm not condoning what she did, especially involving her daughter.
So there's a reason for this. I don't think it's a good one, but it's there. Anyway, Albertsons (or any other big box plant retailer) doesn't technically own the plants until the purchase is made. So they're not responsible for taking care of them. I've noticed that stores with floral desks and attendants, the plants get a little more love, like Kroger and Publix. My Lowe's waters the plants but the houseplants always get drowned and you've got to get there right after a shipment if you don't want a rescue plant that's starting to rot.
@@fioregiallo ive seen a kid working in home depot literally pour gallons of water in one small plant. Seriously. A gallon... And i told him you didnt have to put that much water and he called me a fag.
I knew a couple twenty years ago that stole all their landscaping from other people's homes / yards. They'd drive around after dark and get whatever they wanted. They had a beautiful yard and had no shame about it - until they got caught. I think it was the thrill of it because both had great high paying jobs.
There’s a neighborhood plant their in our area too, stealing from homes, not Albertsons. They found him selling the plants at a swap meet. Weird, but current & true.
Hurrah for Albuquerque's law enforcement team and their judicial system on this one. Where I am from, rarely do I know of probation being revoked. My judicial system allows for continued crimes, violating their probation over and over again, then dropping their violations charges, having firearms and you name it and when they do get tired of seeing the criminal he goes to jail with an apparent low bond to bail out with in sometimes only hours, so It must be a low bond because some I know of live in low income housing and how would there be money to bond out especially when it has become a revolving door for many of them in my town.
There is something going on in society, that is often times not reported. The theft of plants…potted plants. People steal them all the time, and a homeowner doesn’t report it to authority. You cannot leave nice potted plants in your front yard anymore, in most places
@@patrickdunn8918 I wasn't finished with my comment 😅😬. I specialize in propagating plants & they're all very sentimental to me. I would be so upset if my plans were stolen. I will remember to safeguard them with all my might 😳, thanks to your kind PSA.
Wow. I live in one of the toughest little cities in MIchigan and have never had a plant stolen from my house but it happens every time I put on on my Mom and Dads grave site out in the suburbs. lol
Perhaps because the dollar value of the stolen property made the thefts felonies. And the AG's office is in Albuquerque, where the crimes were charged. His office may have more resources to prosecute these cases.
The State’s attorney general is involved in all violations of state law…but it’s usually at the county level for actual prosecution. If you mean the federal AG, it would require violation of federal law. The only thing mentioned here that could possibly be federal would be the use of the internet to sell stolen goods.
@@Pandabee11 leave it to people to take the joy out of everything. I m sure your aware of some theives stealing plants off of people's homes. Nothing is respected anymore.
“Oh, I’ll just help myself to these nice plants here. Surely, they put them here just for ME FOR FREE” WTF is wrong with people during the last couple of decades?
I agree with that. But, in this case, it sounds like this lady had refined her thievery down to seconds. It's hard as a bystander to know in that time frame whether or not she's stealing or loading up goods she paid for inside.
I can’t help but notice the predictable contrast in comments, between a video with a white criminal, vs a black criminal. It shines a light on how prevalent racism still is. When it’s a white person, the comments are always focused on the individual, as they should be. When it’s a black person, the comments are usually overrun with generalizing, and hateful racist ignorance.
They need to All be put in jail, including the daughter. Stolen license plates too? More charges. Bye Felicias! Well the store manager is much smarter than corporate. I work for a store and corporate is just as stupid as Albertsons!
When I worked at a grocery store, a mother would bring her child in with her to shop and she had her child push the tiny child size cart full of items like she was shopping too. It was soooo cute until we realized she had taught her child to walk herself right outside to a waiting car with all the products she hadn't paid for! They finally busted the Mom but not before her daughter stole a significant amount of stuff.
Yep - this happens all the time. I was a property manager for a commercial office building for several years. Every time we would plant Fall Mums or Summer’ Petunias, I’d loose dozens over night from people pulling them out of the ground within a day or two of them going into the large planting beds around the building. It’s unbelievable how low people will go!!!
Did she use them or sell them? I used to have an old neighbor who must have been a garden kleptomaniac: plants & even cheap garden decor. She grieved me by stealing (& subsequently killing) a plant I've had for more than a decade.
How Flippin Embarrassing !! I'm LITERALLY a fellow Burqueño & I am astonished at the Levels these people are willing to go through too make a quick $$$ !! All While EVERY BUSINESS Has a LITERAL “NOW HIRING” sign hanging right OUTSIDE!! How Flippin Sad.. What The Hell Are THEY TEACHING their Kids?? Just Take What You Want & Make a Dollar !!! I had no idea Burque was Filled with such Donkeys !! Ugh... Mountains Here I Come !!
I’ve never heard of this happening with plants but my dad owned a tree business and it’s common with trees The biggest theft he ever had was $30,000 in trees to where then on he told all of his clients to get insurance on their trees for reference this was in Texas
@@meltingspot1064 Multiple trees and the bigger ones there’s been people caught on video before with forklifts loading them in the back of peoples pick ups trees are expensive the bigger they are the more expensive they are when you plant trees you don’t expect them to be gone in the morning all of the trees that where stolen in his biggest theft they planted 67 trees none of them were over 6 feet tall and the people who took them loaded them up in pick ups and trailers The only thing they forgot to do is takeoff their landscaping logo so they were caught most commonly companies and corporate businesses which are who he mainly worked with sending his crews out to where brand new office buildings opening up and when they build those they put trees all over the place it’s cheaper for them to buy smaller trees in bulk plus smaller trees have a better chance of rooting better you very rarely see people move larger trees because they’re harder to move and keep alive once they’ve been re-planted
My friend planted the shrubs and turfed a Dairy Queen restaurant and over night they were stolen, he wrote this poem... The grass was green. The plants were small. The fucking bastards stole them all...!
@@wayneessar7489 I love that poem it reminds me of the movie fun with Dick and Jane when they steal grass from other neighbors lawns to put in their lawn to make one full lawn
What do these stores expect. you put merchandise out free to grab outside with no one watching. I see it at HOME DEPOT, LOWES all the hardware departments stores. Im surprised it doesnt happen more often.
I bet plants were not the only thing she was stealing. It gets to be habit, and she will steal anything she can easily get her hands on, especially if she is reselling the stuff.
@@poollife777 it's no okay, I just used to work for Albertsons, I know how they are, half our plants went to waste, most stores would rather throw stuff away or let it waste before they give it away.
Those plants ARE very expensive. Steal and sell. I don't know why people are so confused about why she/her kid/boyfriend would do this. Drive up or walk away. How many times have you seen someone with a plant from in front of Albertson's walking to their car? Many. Who would know if they had paid? No one. A crime of "opportunity".
Apparently someone noticed, since they were arrested! Have you ever heard Of security cameras? They’re everywhere. Even when you don’t see it in plain view.
Reminds me of the nursery rhyme - Mary, Mary, quite contrary how does your green grow? With silver bells and cockle shells and stolen plants all in a row.
