AusBonsai

stymie wrote:Unfortunately, your efforts at security are mostly illegal here. The local police don't know about my SHILLELAGH though.

if i seen someone coming at me with a shillelagh i wouldnt be sticking round to find out how hard it is

Mojo Moyogi wrote:I like to live by the three R's

Rottweiler
Rifle
Retric Fence

Not necessarily in that order

MM

lol classic mojo the 3 r's! love it...

So, have people ever actually had any bonsai's stolen?
I would hope not, I keep some 'works in progress' (unidentifiable as bonsai to the untrained eye ) in my front yard.

I had a mate in Bundy who had several of his favorite trees stolen , he eventually found the culprits got back one tree but the rest probably got thrown out which is the sadist thing.
I have also caught a young bloke in the act when I lived in Brisbane jumping the fence and lifting one of my trees, lets just say afterwards he had to go home to change his underwear.

Waltron wrote:So, have people ever actually had any bonsai's stolen?
I would hope not, I keep some 'works in progress' (unidentifiable as bonsai to the untrained eye ) in my front yard.

There are some sites that have dedicated threads to stolen trees unfortunately. Yes I have been the victim as a few of my freinds have.

I think mine might be classed as the worst. As it was done at a convention held in Fremantle in 2001. There were some other people who had trees stolen. Mostly shohin and Mame.
Although I had some stolen from my previous address, but they were just stock Japanese Maples . Hard to prove but I think it was our Daughters boyfreind thought they were Mary juanana. Yes he was that stupid.
If he had gone round the back of my workshop he would have found it

Cheers Pup

Pup wrote: Although I had some stolen from my previous address, but they were just stock Japanese Maples . Hard to prove but I think it was our Daughters boyfreind thought they were Mary juanana. Yes he was that stupid.
If he had gone round the back of my workshop he would have found it

Cheers Pup

thats freakin hilarious pup

Sorry about the trees but that story was damn funny.
This guy would have had to be a complete moron for you to suspect that. I can imagine him picking the fresh buds in early spring, sitting back watching them dry, chopping them up and...
...which makes me think - I wonder how it smokes!?

lmao i wonder if the twit smoked them..???

possibly, i wonder if it had autumn colour at the time too...