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GARDAÍ HAVE ISSED an appeal for any members of the public who have had a substantial number of flowers go missing.
At first glance, the stash appears to include geraniums, hydrangeas and possibly some orchids (according to a google image search).
The items in question were recovered by Navan Gardaí and anyone with any information about where they might have come from is being encouraged to contact the station.
While this might seem like a bit of a bizarre request, they were quick to assure a Twitter user when asked that it wasn’t a joke.
An Garda Síochána / Twitter@minnyshell No Joke ( we like to show our softer side !) We have the flowers they belong to someone.!
— An Garda Síochána (@GardaTraffic) July 18, 2015
So – do you recognise these flowers?
An Garda Síochána / TwitterFlower Power - Do you own this property Items recovered by Navan Gardaí contact Navan Gardaí. 046-9021445 pic.twitter.com/1HuCcqLMTj
— An Garda Síochána (@GardaTraffic) July 18, 2015
An Garda Síochána / TwitterFlower Power - Do you own this property Items recovered by Navan Gardaí contact Navan Gardaí. 046-9021445 pic.twitter.com/QuTuLXZH25
— An Garda Síochána (@GardaTraffic) July 18, 2015
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This is definitely a growing concern!
Ask Enda the flowerpot man if he recognizes them?
These were all stolen from graveyards around the Navan area. What special individual steals from the dead?
Fair dues to the Gardai, someone nurtured those flowers and some skum robbed them, glad the owner can recuperate them.
I had pots of bronze roses robbed from my front door 3 years ago, im glad I’m not the only one it happens to, felt like a fool telling people!
I saw a road sign Heavy Plant Crossing could that have been one of your Bronze Roses? ….
Yep They Are Right Tulips….
Hi gorgeous….
All I have to say to the people or person who stole these flowers that I have a garden full of weeds they can rob anytime
Where have all the flowers gone, lost and gone, that was one depressing chant.
It sure was a miserable song alright!
Hopefully they’ll weed out the perpetrators and nip it in the bud..must be a slow crime day
Yeah a good Roundup will sort that out, it all Stems From The Parents Bad Seed …
they’ll probably drive the culprit from Donegal to cork with a driver and escort and release them with a caution and the fare back home.meanwhile you could be having a heart attack and be told no resources available for you.
You have your initials mixed up buddy
please stop bullying me.
Really? How much more contempt can the cops in the country show the people. This is what u shower waste OUR tax money on.? Can’t jail someone of robbing a country but watch out if u stand up for ur rights …. despicable.
They asked for information that might help return the flowers to there owners, surely that’s what you’d expect them to do? Not very much of your tax money wasted
@john lucky we have you to comment!!
But im sure your out doing your bit for society do your sllowed make comments like that?!! Guessing the flowers are not yours either john!!!???
Ah Jesus lighten up
Some of them belong to my parents-in-law, taken from a family grave in Kildare. They’re pretty glad to be getting them back, and that the low life that took them was caught. They wouldn’t be getting them back only for this post
i reckon thats a plant
Peter, Paul and Mary are missing some..it was a while back… I think they live in the states somewhere….
It’s only a petal crime
I had two gorgeous privet cone shaped plants stolen rom outside my front door. I called the cops 5 years ago and I’m still waiting for them to call around to investigate!
So that’s why I am or getting any flowers.. They are being hijacked on the way!
I had some lovely lettuce growing in a window box a couple of days before it started raining last week. Went our the day after the rain and all that remains were leafless stalks. Anyone know of a particularly nasty death for slugs?
Give them beer – they drink and die.
Lettuce have a moment of silence for your plants … :)
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