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According to ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), cucumber capers have targeted market farmers in Adelaide over the past three months, stealing more than $10,000 worth of the popular vegetable.
"It's certainly a unique theft," Chief Inspector Kym Zander told ABC.
Few leads are reported at this point, but police are speculating as to all possible motives, including the case of a jealous farmer.
"We're looking at the possibility that it may be a grower that's had a failed crop and he's substituting through theft," Zander said.
Police do believe the timing of the thefts shows the thieves are in the know.
"Somebody has the knowledge that cucumbers are being picked at the appropriate time, they're being stored in boxes, buckets or bags -- and overnight the thefts are occurring," Zander tells ABC News reporter Pete McDonald.
Even if there was a lead, Zander admits it is hard to determine which cucumbers are the stolen ones.
Embezzled cukes could be sold right under investigator's noses at local grocery stores and markets, as there is no way to detect a cucumber's origin.
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8-15-2009 @9:59PM marmot said... ROFLMAO Pity the poor cukes in question. LOLOL The games afoot!
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8-15-2009 @10:46PM Kathy said... Look for someone with $10,000 worth of pickles!!!!
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8-15-2009 @10:59PM Mike said... This is hilarious. Thats all I can say. The only thing police could do is to somehow Implant something into the cucumbers, such as a GPS device or some other kind of device to track where further stolen cucumbers are going or heading. LOL!!!
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8-16-2009 @1:29AM cannotbelievethis said... OH MY! Cucumber rustlers! I was thinking the same thing Auntie Mae is making pickles from purloined cucumbers then selling them at her produce stand... however, the part that isn't a laughing matter, $10,000 is quite a street value for stolen anything... maybe they;re smoking the roots, I understand it's quite a buzz...
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8-16-2009 @2:21AM Cret said... Here goes the media again working with the big corps in giving reason to nationalize our very food. If you read the last sentence you'll find the key word ORIGIN. Like, they need to know a food's origin. It's food fascism. But, here they are... indirectly promoting nationalized food. This article is very suspect and is not so innocent.
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8-16-2009 @8:34PM Tony D said... OMG!! now these lonely woman are stealing our cukes.
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