Two of the defendants, Jeanette Ogle and Randall Sorrow Jr., both in their 20s and engaged to be married, said they had been collecting nuts so Ms. Ogle’s mother could make holiday pies. When the farmer caught them, the couple offered to give back their bucket of pecans. Instead, he called the sheriff. They learned their lesson: it is a rare pecan in this part of the country that does not belong to someone else.
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New York Times | In Georgia, Pecan Thieves Find Windfall, at $1.50 a Pound (via rachael-maddux)
“Nut theft has long been a reality here in the nation’s pecan belt. It has become such a way of life that a south Georgia rapper, Hawkdogg, even has a song about it: ‘Crank Dat Pecan.’”
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