Corn on the cob theft (1 Viewer)

[Alistair33]

today we walked and cycled past what has to amount to over a million corns that looked ready to eat.

Now the farmer isnt going to miss a couple from the edge, not ever if everyone who walks past the field takes one, so I know its theft and I didn't take one but would you?

 

[Munchie]

Yes!

 

[Ber090]

What Munchie said!

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[Jamwitt]

No 2 one for the wife as well

 

[On the road again]

If the farmer catches you he'll have a right cob on.

 

[irnbru]

For sure I would if my hand could reach it. Plays havoc sticking in the teeth mind you

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[icantremember]

Probably not now, although we used to pick them, put a stick through them and wrap in tin foil before roasting in a fire ... very tasty with a few beers.

 

[denisejoe]

Don't do it in France we had a couple boiled for an hour still like iron cattle feed

 

[Munchie]

Don't do it in France we had a couple boiled for an hour still like iron cattle feed

Think you left em too late, ones we liberate are gorgeous! Also an hour? 5 minutes more like.

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[Vanderek]

Warning... the farmer could be a cereal killer

 

[old-mo]

"NO"................

No different than walking out of a shop and grabbing a Bounty Bar or Twix or whatever.....

It`s theft....

How would you feel if you were trying to eek out a living...

 

[Jim]

Be careful...we were in France and pinched a couple of cobs from a field. We boiled them, then we boiled them more, no matter how long we boiled them they would not cook like corn as we know it. We learned the next day that it was a special type of corn grown for cattle feed

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[WillH]

My mate grows them on his farm, they're cattle feed!

 

[DavidG58]

many years ago when camping near St Tropez, a farmer land owner and his mate came into the campsite carrying guns chasing kids who had 'stolen' grapes from his vineyard next to the camp site, probably more valuable than the cobs, but still remember the fear in the kids eyes

so no for me

 

[Riverbankannie]

Yes, if you see very large fields of them, they are cattle feed and are virtually inedible.

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[irnbru]

today we walked and cycled past what has to amount to over a million corns that looked ready to eat.

Now the farmer isnt going to miss a couple from the edge, not ever if everyone who walks past the field takes one, so I know its theft and I didn't take one but would you?

Alistair where is your photos and blog of where you are etc etc?

 

[Fletton]

Abso..... ferkin.... loootly.....

But .... i'm not a thief...

I'd see that as ... a gift from God himself... as opposed to that leather hand bag in Harrods...

Now that would be just plain thieving and criminal

 

[rangi]

One of my many many jobs post leaving the armed forces and waiting for my Seaman's book to come through was for a while in Falmouth Docks as a Shipping Butcher
They had their own Coppers on the gate, A fella, don't know what department he was from, was picked up leaving the Docks with an old army small pack full of kindling . "What's the problem" says he "It's only kindling!"
The Boss Copper said "there are 1500 men working in the Docks, IF! they each took a foot of timber home for kindling twice a week?????"

You take 1 corn cob! Some one else with a family takes 4, joe blow gets greedy and takes 12,

tiz theft!

Had a good mate of mine saw a fella gathering Mushrooms from his paddock, he followed the joker home. Once the fella went inside my mate walked around his garden picking flowers, the fella came steaming out "what the hell are you doing?"
My Mate said "You came to my place and picked mushrooms? I thought I'd return the compliment and come to your place and pick a bunch of your flowers!"

Tiz ONLY a Corn Cob, Tiz ONLY a Cabbage Tiz ONLY a Cauliflower, Tiz ONLY a Swede.

Tiz ONLY Theft!

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[Taran_Las]

No.

 

[Alistair33]

Alistair where is your photos and blog of where you are etc etc?

Getting there, Bets is writing a diary, not to be shared, we picked up a camera yesterday and hope to post some pictures by the end of the week along with a commentary of where we have been. So far it's all been so so busy

 

[Alistair33]

One of my many many jobs post leaving the armed forces and waiting for my Seaman's book to come through was for a while in Falmouth Docks as a Shipping Butcher
They had their own Coppers on the gate, A fella, don't know what department he was from, was picked up leaving the Docks with an old army small pack full of kindling . "What's the problem" says he "It's only kindling!"
The Boss Copper said "there are 1500 men working in the Docks, IF! they each took a foot of timber home for kindling twice a week?????"

You take 1 corn cob! Some one else with a family takes 4, joe blow gets greedy and takes 12,

tiz theft!

Had a good mate of mine saw a fella gathering Mushrooms from his paddock, he followed the joker home. Once the fella went inside my mate walked around his garden picking flowers, the fella came steaming out "what the hell are you doing?"
My Mate said "You came to my place and picked mushrooms? I thought I'd return the compliment and come to your place and pick a bunch of your flowers!"

Tiz ONLY a Corn Cob, Tiz ONLY a Cabbage Tiz ONLY a Cauliflower, Tiz ONLY a Swede.

Tiz ONLY Theft!

Coopers ? That's got to be going back a few years !

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[Robert Clark]

No I wouldn't take them
Theft is theft

 

[Hollyberry]

They are indeed grown as cattle feed.
Down in the Pyrenees you'll see giant, slatted box type structures--- 12 feet high, maybe, stuffed full of the corn cobs.
I assume that keeps them drying out with air circulating so they don't go mouldy.

 

[Stagman]

today we walked and cycled past what has to amount to over a million corns that looked ready to eat.

Now the farmer isnt going to miss a couple from the edge, not ever if everyone who walks past the field takes one, so I know its theft and I didn't take one but would you?

Absolutely but not those as learned the hard way they're inedible. However We have lots of broad beans grown round here too which i like to eat

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[denisejoe]

They are indeed grown as cattle feed.
Down in the Pyrenees you'll see giant, slatted box type structures--- 12 feet high, maybe, stuffed full of the corn cobs.
I assume that keeps them drying out with air circulating so they don't go mouldy.

i've seen them being harvested just a combine that shreads everything then spits it out into a trailer

joe

 

[The Nomad]

Or.............

I was just walking past a motorhome and I saw a mobile phone inside it.
I like mobile phones.
I know the owner will have plenty of money and insurance, and I could really do with a new phone just now.
There was no-one around.
Do I break the window and take his phone or not?

So when is stealing something that doesn't belong to you acceptable then?

 

[Landy lover]

So if you pass an orchard with some juicy apples its OK to pick some ? - if you pass the greengrocers and those same apples are on display there is it still ok to take some? No either way is theft

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[irnbru]

If I were a farmer and seriously worried about my crops being nicked i wouldn't sow so near to the edge that passersby could steal one, either that or just say each one i was left with in that area was a bonus.


I wonder if you are all as goody two shoes in not breaking the law in other ways which is also wrong. We can all talk the talk on a forum but can you really walk the walk?

 

[pappajohn]

The fields at the back of our house have different crops each year, this year its barley but last year it was spuds, some red some white.....very nice they were too.
Walk the dogs and take a carrier bag.

 

[Debs]

Absolutely but not those as learned the hard way they're inedible. However We have lots of broad beans grown round here too which i like to eat

There's spuds growing where I walk with the dog....1st time theyve ever grown them that Ive seen them....look about ready too....

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