May 20, 2008, SMH:
Thieves have stripped a NSW Hunter Valley olive grove of its fruit in an overnight raid, the latest of a series of such bizarre thefts.That's an organised labour force. Can you imagine a group of Australians doing this? I can't, considering we're told that Aussies won't go fruit picking anymore and we need to import labour. It's ninja like. If immigrants are over-represented in general crime statistics, then I suppose it's natural that crime will follow them into rural areas. Is it then wise to invite immigrants onto your land in daylight to get the lay of the land? Is it worth the risk?
Quentin von Essen, who runs an olive grove in Lovedale, was alarmed to find that all but two of his 400 trees had been stripped of their olives earlier this month ...
Mr von Essen said he was dumbfounded how the theft of about four tonnes of olives could have happened without anyone noticing.
"It would take approximately six people up to three days to pick our olive grove," he told ABC Radio today."It appears that ... a whole lot of people have come into the grove overnight and just stripped the trees.
"The eerie part is ... there is not an olive on any of these trees and not an olive on the ground ...
Mr von Essen said he knew of five other properties in the area that had been raided recently ...
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The Long Paddock Olive Rustlers experts, winners of multiple best in show,gold, silver and bronze awards tell me that a large number of birds will clean out a grove in no time.The birds only pick the fruit when it is just ripe and will leave the unripe fruit.
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