Death Penalty

Beginning last year nocturnal visitations to my garden commenced.  This year they continue.  As evidence of these raids upon my fresh, organically-grown, yummy vegetables have been picked green beans, nibbled carrot tops and the strange disappearance of every last broccoli plant.  

There is irrefutable evidence that the perpetrator of the theft was accomplished by one or more children.  This is apparently a crime family.


This past week my beautiful romaine lettuce was browsed to a mere stump.

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Then there were the tender, leafy beet tops neatly nipped from the root vegetable.

The forensic proof of the culprit has been the foot hoof prints.

This is a crime that carries seriously grave consequences.

As the penalty is death...