Police in Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture, are investigating the theft of 1,200 freshly picked Fuji apples from an orchard.
The apples and the wooden crates they were packed in were stolen sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning, NTV quoted police as saying. The orchard owner and his family went out to the orchard to do some work at around 7 a.m. Sunday and noticed the apples were missing.
The stolen apples had been picked on Saturday. Their value was about 160,000 yen.
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falseflagsteve
Well, this seems to be becoming more frequent. Quite a few of these cases were young Vietnamese chaps, selling to fellow countrymen online.
wallace
CCTV, guard dogs, etc. Does lightning strike the same place twice?
リッチ
They were picked as many of the items have been. Placing them at the road and drive clearly are points make sense. Lately all theee cases were drive ups.
Fighto!
Tough life being a farmer - with the changing weather conditions, pests, birds, market prices and many factors to worry about. Having ones produce pilfered would be a real kick in the guts.
This farmer needs a couple of decent sized, menacing-looking dogs on his orchard to patrol and help take care of business.
Zaphod
リッチ
Disagree. It is one thing to have a CCTV camera at your house, but you want to plaster entire orchards with them?
リッチ
The incompetence of so many farmers in this country to not protect their crops or have basic CCTV cameras that cost less than 3000 yen on the Internet, amazes me. At some point, the authority should say how do you know how many apples were there and were they really there? I mean who can just drive up and take away 1000 apples.
wallace
The loss of the apples probably hurts more than the money value which is quite small.
factchecker
The farmers profits will crumble because of the thieves.
qazwsx
An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but not the thieves
sakurasuki
That's so many apple.