Yellowdingo plays mind games with the locals

[yellowdingo]

So on Sunday I picked five bags of mangoes (about thirty Bowen mangoes each) and I have sat them outside the property boundary on the footpath to find out if they are there at the end of the day. I did it because some dudes rode past and pulled up and were eyeing off the mangoes on the tree and I didn't really want them jumping the fence to loot them.

[The 8th Dwarf]

yellowdingo wrote:

So on Sunday I picked five bags of mangoes (about thirty Bowen mangoes each) and I have sat them outside the property boundary on the footpath to find out if they are there at the end of the day. I did it because some dudes rode past and pulled up and were eyeing off the mangoes on the tree and I didn't really want them jumping the fence to loot them.

Bowens are nice mangos - but they smell like vomit when they go rotten.

Did you put a free to take sign on them... You could be preserving them or turning them into jam or pickles.

[Rubber Ducky guy]

Am I reading this right? You're trying to give away 150 mangoes?

Its funny how fruit on a treebin someone's yard is fair game, while people second guess things on your footpath

[Kthulhu]

What about the fruit loop inside his house?

[Spanky the Leprechaun]

good thing he's not growing rhubarb.

NSFW cussing

[yellowdingo]

And precisely eight hours after putting them out...four out of five bags were bundled into a car and driven away...don't know why they didn't take bag five.

[yellowdingo]

Thirty minutes later the fifth bag vanished.

[Nolan_The_Angry_Trent]

Oh Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[yellowdingo]

SO this after noon I put out a sixth bag of Mangoes (another thirty). This time the mangoes were inside the gate and I put up a sign asking 20 dollars per bag. Some folks in a White Four door sedan from the late eighties to nineties (one of those boxy ones) and they leaned over the fence and stole the mangoes - leaving the Bag.

Tomorrow I will do it again...

[Helaman]

lol - wish you had of gotten paid but its good to see you have a sense of humour over it and are getting some amusement with this.

[Snorter]

When do you start adding the bear traps? Or the cans of explosive UV anti-thief paint?

Are you going to leave each successive bag further and further up the path, to see who is enticed to your door?

This is like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

"Mangoes! Come get your juicy mangoes!"
"Sooooo sweeeeet. And aaaaall freeee todaaaaay!"

[Justin Rocket]

Maybe leave a jar and a sign "10 cents for a mango for my child's leukemia" and see who steals. You can always give the money away to a local cancer ward.

I'd be fascinated to have the thieves videotaped and the tape sent to your local news channel.

[Crimson Jester]

Um, isn't that just wasting your money?

[yellowdingo]

Crimson Jester wrote:

Um, isn't that just wasting your money?

Oh yeah...a colossal waste of Money and time. They spent day one walking past looking at the sign and the mangoes...so I removed the sigh and the first five bags got picked up in an hour- the couple spinning a tale of how the four bags of mangoes would be 'going to the children'. The fifth vanished. The sixth was stolen from the yard. I still have to pick enough to fill the seventh bag...My Picking Pole is now past three metres long...and getting longer. Got to pick the high up ones before they are a real problem - one blew a hole in the car window.

[yellowdingo]

Bag of Mangoes Seven is deployed. Lets see if it is there tomorrow.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Label the seventh bag of mangoes: "Bag of Apples, $5.00"

[Vic Wertz]

I say make it "50,000 drachmas or one small camel."

[The 8th Dwarf]

Vic Wertz wrote:

I say make it "50,000 drachmas or one small camel."

There is a very good chance he would get a camel, there are 750,000 feral camels wandering around the north west, being pests.

[Spanky the Leprechaun]

That's a lot of drachmas.

[yellowdingo]

Still there...lets see if it is there on Saturday (tomorrow for all you folks in yesterday land).

[Vic Wertz]

Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:

That's a lot of drachmas.

And they can be yours for just $10!

Spoiler:

But for barely double that, you can get yourself 100 billion...

Spoiler:

Or spend less than half that amount and get 100 trillion Zimbawean dollars...

[yellowdingo]

Still there...I upped the number of Bags to Two Bags. Increasing the Enticement factor. I'll ad a third bag today and see if they don't vanish by Monday.

[yellowdingo]

Went inside for half an hour and both bags were hanging on the gate emptied of their bowen mangoes!!! I'm going to make changes to the sign: 'Mangoes $20 per bag :) for the CCTV.' I'll put it out with Bag of Mangoes #9.

[zylphryx]

So any idea if it's the same people of different one each time?

[yellowdingo]

zylphryx wrote:

So any idea if it's the same people of different one each time?

Not a clue...but they strike fast. Bag #9 deployed with a Sign: 'Mangoes $20/bag; :)4CCTV'. Lets see how the respond to the prospect of being filmed snatching Mangoes.

Bag #10 is going to have something special.

[lucky7]

Exploding dye packs!?!

[Ambrosia Slaad]

lucky7 wrote:

yellowdingo wrote:

Bag #10 is going to have something special.

Exploding dye packs!?!

Road apples?

[Tiny Coffee Golem]

Ambrosia Slaad wrote:

lucky7 wrote:

yellowdingo wrote:

Bag #10 is going to have something special.

Exploding dye packs!?!

Road apples?

In the American south there is sometimes a problem with feral dogs breaking into trash containers. They'll rip the bags open and generally make a mess of things while looking for scraps.

So in order to "train" the dogs you put a tablespoon of a amonia in the plastic bags before you tie it up. Over a couple hours the very diluted/ diffused fumes build up in the bag.

Then when the dogs tear into a bag the vapors come pouring out. It stings like hell, but causes no permanent damage. Basically the dogs learn to leave your trash alone because it hurts.
If you use a plastic bags for your mangos you could try something similar for you "something special" mango bag.

[Tiny Coffee Golem]

Also, this thread may be the best thing on the internet.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

So, any chance Y'Dingo, that you could sit inside the 10th bag and leap out when someone tries to take it?

Hell, you're in Australia... just fill the bag with all the deadly fauna clinging to every available surface.

[The 8th Dwarf]

Bag 10 are you going to put in a slab of Darwin stubbies. That would be special.

[yellowdingo]

I think I just met Light-Fingered Sally, Notorious Highwaymn...

The 5' tall frail elderly lady from next door comes waddling out from her place and stares at the mangoes by the gate and the sign with its 20 dollars a bag; smile for CCTV and asks me about the mangoes and buys a bag for twenty dollars...and I tell her 'Careful, Its heavy...' as I hand it to her and She says 'Don't I know it.'

And I'm thinking of course she knows they are heavy...She stole five bags of Mangoes. I've been served my b#%%@ ass on a plate by a little old lady who probably robbed banks back in the 1920's with Squizzy.

[yellowdingo]

I'll put Bag ten out on its own tomorrow. I think she broke my will...

[BigDTBone]

yellowdingo wrote:

I'll put Bag ten out on its own tomorrow. I think she broke my will...

It may be time to petition a change for the thread title to "The locals play mind games with yellowdingo."

[yellowdingo]

BigDTBone wrote:

yellowdingo wrote:

I'll put Bag ten out on its own tomorrow. I think she broke my will...

It may be time to petition a change for the thread title to "The locals play mind games with yellowdingo."

We'll see. Bag ten goes out on its own. I'll see who steals it.

[yellowdingo]

Almost. Caught a guy fondling the Mangoes with his hands. Left claiming he was interested and might come back. So maybe that was him. Drove off in his s#!+ty white car.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

I thought mango fondling was at least a misdemeanor.

[yellowdingo]

These people are catching me on a good day. If I was ever pissed about it...I might take the time to rub down every mango with a flesh eating bacteria so they loose their hands.

[Sissyl]

Set a sign claiming that the mangos are checked and healthy. Then put contact poison all over the bag.

[Orthos]

yellowdingo wrote:

These people are catching me on a good day. If I was ever pissed about it...I might take the time to rub down every mango with a flesh eating bacteria so they loose their hands.

Calm down, Satan.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

yellowdingo wrote:

These people are catching me on a good day. If I was ever pissed about it...I might take the time to rub down every mango with a flesh eating bacteria so they loose their hands.

Are flesh-eating bacteria smart enough to discriminate between mango flesh and (presumably) human flesh? You could put out a bag of bacteria-covered mangoes and the mangos could be eaten by the time the thief shows up to collect a now empty bag.

[yellowdingo]

Ran out of Mangoes...must wait for the next season.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Stuff a bag full of newspaper, set it next to your mangoes sign, and then hide nearby. If anyone stops to investigate, slingshot a large rubber spider at them. Be sure to video it for Youtube.

[Matt Thomason]

yellowdingo wrote:

Ran out of Mangoes...must wait for the next season.

Aww :(

Any chance anyone nearby has any for sale outside their gate? You could always go swipe a bag!

Oh.. wait...

[yellowdingo]

They are having a little problem with the mango supply in the NT. Apparently they have had an outbreak of something that leaves black veins radiating in from the Skin...something mine didn't have.