Ok, so I invite my friend over from down the street then I go pick up my daughter from school. On the way back I see a Sheriff's plate on an unmarked car pull down my deadend street and ask my friend who is walking towards my house who he is and who he lives with. When he tells them they tell him to keep going.
They then turned around and I passed them as I pulled into my driveway. They then sat at the end of my street and then moved to a driveway of a house that is being rehabbed and they sat there.
I walked out with my kids and got the mail, our mailbox is at the end of the street so I could get a better look at what they were doing.
I then took my daughter to her friends house and a few people in the neighborhood drove by and stopped and talked for a second, after that they just left.
I have a little stuff in my house but nothing big and I have no plants on my property but there are plants in the wooded property that is next to mine and there are trails linking my back yard with trails that lead to the plants. There are also plenty of other trails that lead everywhere else as well but it wouldn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out they were mine.
Just as a contingency plan I have taught my kids to say that all the neighborhood kids use my yard as a crossing, they did in fact use it before we put our house here so it would be unheard of.
Anyways that Sheriff spooked me. I keep telling myself that they wouldn't come out here asking random people on the street who they are if they knew about the plants, I think they would be more stealthy about it and they would either attempt to catch someone caring for the plants or they would just outright rip them and they'd either give me a lecture our they'd try and charge me with something. I'm not familiar enough with the law to know if they even could charge me with anything in my situation. Anyways, I don't know what I'm gonna do, I'm thinking of moving them further from my house just to be safe. Don't want to hurt them but I don't know, I moved a small one and it's doing fine. They used to be in pots and I put them in the ground about 2 months ago, I might be able to pop their rootballs right out. Just don't know yet.
They then turned around and I passed them as I pulled into my driveway. They then sat at the end of my street and then moved to a driveway of a house that is being rehabbed and they sat there.
I walked out with my kids and got the mail, our mailbox is at the end of the street so I could get a better look at what they were doing.
I then took my daughter to her friends house and a few people in the neighborhood drove by and stopped and talked for a second, after that they just left.
I have a little stuff in my house but nothing big and I have no plants on my property but there are plants in the wooded property that is next to mine and there are trails linking my back yard with trails that lead to the plants. There are also plenty of other trails that lead everywhere else as well but it wouldn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out they were mine.
Just as a contingency plan I have taught my kids to say that all the neighborhood kids use my yard as a crossing, they did in fact use it before we put our house here so it would be unheard of.
Anyways that Sheriff spooked me. I keep telling myself that they wouldn't come out here asking random people on the street who they are if they knew about the plants, I think they would be more stealthy about it and they would either attempt to catch someone caring for the plants or they would just outright rip them and they'd either give me a lecture our they'd try and charge me with something. I'm not familiar enough with the law to know if they even could charge me with anything in my situation. Anyways, I don't know what I'm gonna do, I'm thinking of moving them further from my house just to be safe. Don't want to hurt them but I don't know, I moved a small one and it's doing fine. They used to be in pots and I put them in the ground about 2 months ago, I might be able to pop their rootballs right out. Just don't know yet.
I'm sure that will fool them. Throw some donuts out the front door too. That should give you a 50/50 chance that they'll chase after them.....