Theft at Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt

[Suzanne Muller]

8 trees were stolen from the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt Wednesday night.
Be on the lookout. Pass it on.
Contorted cherry
Flowering apricot
Korean hornbeam
Mugho pine
Hinoki cypress
Black pine
Hawthorn
Pomegranate
pomegranate

 

[Suzanne Muller]

Stolen trees

 

[gooeytek]

That's pretty brazen. No cameras?

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Thank you for posting.

 

[Suzanne Muller]

That's pretty brazen. No cameras?

Yes there are cameras. We are accessing the images today.

 

[Ruddigger]

Damn.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

So sad. And here we were just talking about how in Tokyo you can leave your bonsai out on the sidewalk and no one will touch them.

 

[namnhi]

How about public hand-chopping as a punishment for this kind of crime. That will stop them.

 

[Hartinez]

So sad. And here we were just talking about how in Tokyo you can leave your bonsai out on the sidewalk and no one will touch them.

It’s night and day. So sad for sure.

 

[Ruddigger]

Bjorn has said that there have been a number of high profile thefts from professional nurseries in Japan lately. The trees are stolen and shipped to private collectors in Vietnam.

 

[Nybonsai12]

How about public hand-chopping as a punishment for this kind of crime. That will stop them.

Shoot em in the face and use their decomposing bodies as fertilizer.

 

[Nybonsai12]

Bjorn has said that there have been a number of high profile thefts from professional nurseries in Japan lately. The trees are stolen and shipped to private collectors in Vietnam.

With these being high profile quality trees, i wonder where they end up. Makes me think they are being shipped out of the US.

 

[Paradox]

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

!!!!

 

[misfit11]

$20K worth of bonsai trees stolen from free, volunteer-run garden in Oakland

Volunteers who run the free admission Bonsai Garden at Oakland's Lake Merritt need your help identifying these trees stolen from their property. The garden's director says some of the trees are 100 years old, and cannot be replaced.

abc7news.com

News report on ABC 7

 

[namnhi]

$20K worth of bonsai trees stolen from free, volunteer-run garden in Oakland

Volunteers who run the free admission Bonsai Garden at Oakland's Lake Merritt need your help identifying these trees stolen from their property. The garden's director says some of the trees are 100 years old, and cannot be replaced.

abc7news.com

News report on ABC 7

This is the problem.... quoted from the article.

"Volunteers reached out to Oakland police but say they got no response and no officers showed. We reached out to OPD and also got no response about the incident."

 

[Cadillactaste]

Bjorn has said that there have been a number of high profile thefts from professional nurseries in Japan lately. The trees are stolen and shipped to private collectors in Vietnam.

I had heard of the theft... not the rest of the story of the private collectors.

 

[BrightsideB]

Very sad! What a loss. This seems like it’s starting to become more common.

I don’t know much about tracking devices. Is this something people use?

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Very sad! What a loss. This seems like it’s starting to become more common.

I don’t know much about tracking devices. Is this something people use?

Most tracking devices like apple air tags let everybody know if they're close to a device for an x-amount of time.
I remember a couple days ago about a guy posting on a motorcycle forum that his android phone notified him about an apple air tag being present near him. The seller "forgot" his air tag under the back seat and sold the bike without a second key.
So the guy now stores his motorcycle indoors, because his location is marked as "potential easy victim".

There are other devices out there but the thing is.. They're either easily removed or the battery has a shorter lifespan than a repotting cycle would take. That, and some aluminium foil would block out all potential GPS signals.

In my country, even if you can prove someone took your device by providing the GPS and camera proof to the police, your case might not get solved because it's just a tiny theft that doesn't make headlines. Worse even, if you take matters into your own hands, you might get sued for harassment or slander.

 

[Tieball]

Most tracking devices like apple air tags let everybody know if they're close to a device for an x-amount of time.
I remember a couple days ago about a guy posting on a motorcycle forum that his android phone notified him about an apple air tag being present near him. The seller "forgot" his air tag under the back seat and sold the bike without a second key.
So the guy now stores his motorcycle indoors, because his location is marked as "potential easy victim".

There are other devices out there but the thing is.. They're either easily removed or the battery has a shorter lifespan than a repotting cycle would take. That, and some aluminium foil would block out all potential GPS signals.

In my country, even if you can prove someone took your device by providing the GPS and camera proof to the police, your case might not get solved because it's just a tiny theft that doesn't make headlines. Worse even, if you take matters into your own hands, you might get sued for harassment or slander.

Well stated. I understand exactly.