Stolen Hay......

[livaward]

Yup it happened! My neighbor across the street who lost all his hay cut some of our fields so that he could get some hay.......I get a call asking if I or any of my family came and picked up some hay? No. Well when he and his wife went to get their kids from the school they just stopped what they were doing and left. He got back to get the rest of the hay and 8 rolls were gone! The field is right next to the road but I can't believe someone would steal the hay! If they would have asked for it he would have gave them 2 or 3 rolls!:mad:

I just can't believe it!

[HeartofSteel]

Thats awful! Someone just steals that many, I mean seriously do they think they woudn't notice?

[HoustonFarrier]

I don't know what it is about hay. Several years ago, on our way to the Ohio State Fair, we had 4 or 5 bales come off the top of our trailer. It took me about 5 minutes to get to the next exit and turn around...when we got back to where they had come off, there was a pickup truck going the opposite way on a feeder road WITH MY HAY !

Go figure......

Steve

[HAWKINSTXN]

someone stole about 50 square bales from our barn this year, i figured if they went through all the trouble to steal them then they probably needed them worse than i did.

[lovesfortune]

wow. some people are unbelievable.

[Whitedresswind]

jeesh, the things ppl do:huh:

[WashingtonBay]

Round bales are not that easy to steal! :huh:

[Gypsy Rose]

More than once, I've had people try to beg hay off me, even after I've explained to them that I only have enough for Gypsyfor the winter. They don't offer to pay, either, then get offended when I won't just hand over some bales.

I always worry that someday, I'm going to come home and find half my hay supply gone!

I agree- what is it with some people?!

[mtnmollie]

Hay gets stolen from the farmer's harvest field every year where i am from...

[Equine_Woman]

Oh man!!! That's crazy. They stole ROUND BALES? That takes a lot of coordination!! Gotta get a tractor involved in that!! Sheesh!! Someone dropped a round bale on the highway here and it busted open and I tell you it was like a feeding frenzy!!! People in trucks were pulled over just scooping as much of the hay as they could into buckets and bags and the back of their truck. By the end of the day that bale of hay was almost gone!!!

[Tatesgram]

This really doesn't surprise me. People steal everything else, why not hay. I've given hay to people, but thankfully never had any stolen.

[livaward]

What really get me is that we only live 5 minuets from the school........someone had to have been watching them. My neighbor just left the tractor there next to the hay because literally they were going to be back in 20 minuets at the most! I never seen anyone there because yeah if it wasn't my neighbors in there the gate would have been shut and the cops called.....this particular field is about half mile from the house so I wouldn't have been able to see it from the house......

Steve....you know when you come around that last curve before you get to my house? That empty field on the right? That is the hay field he was cutting. I mean the people around here know us and we know everyone too so I know eventually we will hear something but jeeze.......stilling from us is just dumb

[cloedoll]

People these days. :rolleyes:
I'm sorry about your hay!

[FrogInABlender]

Wow, somebody went to a lot of trouble to steal ROLLED hay. It had to have been somebody close by because you need a pretty big tractor to handle those things. They weigh over 1000# each. So unless they took the time and the risk of somebody seeing them and hauled them back to their barn one at a time (or possibly 2 at a time if they had a hay spear on the front AND the back), they had to have had a truck and trailer to haul them on. So that means there was more than one person involved, unless they took the time to drive the tractor to the hay field and leave it, then go back and get the truck and trailer. And of course there's no way of identifying the hay, even if you DID manage to find it in somebody's barn, so the poor guy is just out of luck. That's really sorry of somebody to do that!

[FrogInABlender]

... My neighbor just left the tractor there next to the hay because literally they were going to be back in 20 minuets at the most!...

DANG! You mean they used HIS OWN TRACTOR to steal it?! Boy, that does take some brass! Jeez Louise!