It is also harder to steal a planter if you use an adhesive, but you've got to be sure the planter is where you want it.

As long as you got away with it, I say, "YAY!" It would really hurt your feelings to go to jail over stealing back your own stuff. ;D

One thing, about stolen planters, this is a case for the heavy stone or cement kind. The cement look-alikes are cheaper and easier to handle, but too easy for thieves to steal.

Anyone who sees my house knows my wife loves plants and the Postal Delivery Person can attest to the volume of catalogues and boxes delivered here.

A few months after be bought our house and my wife's plant passion began manifesting,someone stole two of her planters right off our porch! We dutifully reported it. A few days later I found her planters on a porch one street over. I called the police and went with the officer to investigate. The perp said they bought them at HQ wearhouse. BULL - those plants would never he sold by HQ - they're from a specialty company and I can show you the catalogue at home. The cop could do nothing - it's a he said / he said matter.

So I waited until the perps left home and took my wife's planters back! Right off their porch as they had done mine. (distinctive planter and specialty plants - figure the odds that it was a coincidence.) One of their neighbors saw me and later told me: "Good work- those people have caused problems on the block for years."

So did two wrongs make a right? You decide. We have never had another plant go missing in 15 years.

She'd better stay away from my porch rockers! Anyone out on my porch at night, samping the rockers like Goldilocks, my Chihuahuas will tell on you and I'll rush out the door waving a broom!

Of course, if she tried to snitch my plants and bushes, the motion-sensing lights would tell on her about the same tine the Chihuahua security patrol would kick in.

Kind of like having a junky car no one wants to steal, or a home that is beautiful inside, but a drab-looking home from the street. Thieves are discouraged. A plant thief would certainly have little interest in my yard!

The lady has stolen nothing from you? Maybe you should take that as a hint that you need to put some better plants in your garden & yard...lol

Sometimes, getting a person arrested is the first step in getting them into the mental health system. Apparently this plant thief has no family or a family that does not care. Have her arrested; that is the only way to handle a thief of any kind. There must be repercussions for one's behavior.

what does she do when she goes to the doctor's office, Harris Teeter, & Rite Aide... fill up her bag and not think twice as she walks out not leaving a cent? Does she also help herself to someone's purse on the front seat of an unlocked car and the antique chair on your front porch?