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Thread ID: 8817 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-08-06
2003-08-06 20:14 | User Profile
"Crooks are seeing a different kind of green in gardens and on farms, making big money stealing and reselling coveted produce, decorative plants and trees." So says [url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93865,00.html]Fox News[/url]
Who could be behind such a thing? Fox News reports "Crooks are typically either members of picking crews or drug dealers looking for quick cash who rob fields or crates awaiting pickup."
Drug dealing has nothing to do with crop stealing. The customers and producers are totally different. Sure, a drug dealer might also deal in stolen crops, but that's because he's a criminal, not because he's a drug dealer. And, I doubt there's any real evidence that full-time drug dealers play a signficant role in this produce theft.
In CA, it's a safe bet that 99.9% of these theives are non-white and nearly all Hispanic. If there was a crime wave by whites, even an imagined crime wave, you know the media wouldn't hesitate to name the race.