Another bonsai thief arrested

[rockm]

Another Contract bonsai thief arrested

Vietnamese man accused in theft of 22 bonsai from store in Tokyo | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

 

[Colorado]

 

[Carol 83]

I'm glad they caught him but it's such a waste he just threw the trees away.

 

[dbonsaiw]

Glad they got him. Btw, how do you get all these bonsai theft APBs?

 

[Gabler]

I'm glad they caught him but it's such a waste he just threw the trees away.

Correction: He told police that he threw the half the trees away. He's apparently covering for his buyers.

 

[Desert O'Piñon]

"Yes, officer, I threw away the trees. I didn't feel right about taking money for something so valuable that I didn't earn. So, rather than return them or put them in a safe place where they could be recovered by the proper authorities or owner, I simply threw them into a riverbed where they died and were inaccessible. So you'll never be able to recover them to prove or disprove my story. If you don't find them, it's because some rando took them before you got there."

 

[rockm]

I get notices on Facebook from time to time from contacts there. The reports out of Asia/Japan come from new wires. You can find interesting stuff Google (or wherever) searching “bonsai” and clicking “news”