Christmas tree millionaires

[Peasgood]

I have never understood people stealing off others to celebrate Christmas, always thought it was the opposite to what it should be about.

[htb]

Who said anything about stealing, it's my plantation.

[Hillbillee]

I live close to Friezeland Christmas tree farm and I often wonder how many they lose to theft. It's only a short hop through the hedge.  The owners are loaded, but have their fingers in many pies. We make do with an artificial one we've had for ever.

[oldwoodcutter]

Many years ago a friend of mine went out one dark night and took the top out of a spruce that he’d had his eye on for a few weeks.

Unfortunately for him, the estate was heavily keepered, and at that time they were out and about guarding against  poachers.

The land owner  decided to prosecute and it went to court, where he sympathetically told the magistrates he couldn’t afford  to buy a tree ( in truth he’d been raking cash in all year doing domestic tree work) and didn’t want his 2 young daughters to have a xmas without a xmas tree.

The land owners friends were on the bench and he was fined heavily, and had his name splashed across all the local papers .

This was a good 50 years ago and I recalled it the last time we  got chatting and he laughed about it, but it wasn’t funny at the time for him.

 

[alandurrant]

Some chaps up the road selling them at 40 to 100 quid each, one's got 60K in cash that he can't spend. Got a lot here myself that need thinning, put it on FB again during November, sold 4 @ ''£10 any size 4' to 12' ''.
Managed to give 9 away to local dogs' home. Again.
Prob just thin and shred 'em out next month. Not worth the bother.