Boston Burl Burglars

I wasn't following burl futures, was there a spike in value on the commodities market? What else could explain this sudden interest in them?
 
They were processing the burls themselves and making finished slabs and bowls. One of them had a woodshop in his apartment. They used a well known Boston park (Fenway Victory Gardens) across the street from the apartment to cut the burls down to working size with a chainsaw. That's how they were caught. One was in possession of meth when arrested. They cut quite a few burls off or park trees in Boston and Brookline. Tree folks in Boston are very happy they were finally caught.
-AJ
 
Haha! I didn't realize Goodpredators link was to the Globe article from yesterday morning. They were busted approximately 1:00pm yesterday, apparently they don't read the morning newspaper or they might have reconsidered doing some public chainsaw work the same day.

Here's a news report about the arrest: Burl Bandits Busted

-AJ
 
Glad they were caught. It seems like there is no end to what people will do for drug money.

I thought there was another recent post about some burl thieves in either South Carolina or Georgia?
 
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And the logic of reporting the value of burls to every other tweaker in the Boston area?

jomoco

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Well, the news media reports on bank robbers too, and how much cash they got. Goes with the territory.

I hear you though. At this point I think they already got all the easy-to-get-to burls in the area ;-)
-AJ
 
Snagging burls seems like a pretty difficult way to get some cash for meth. I first heard about the thefts on Monday on the Comm ave mall. They did a great job getting the word out fast but I was still surprised how fast they got caught.
 
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Snagging burls seems like a pretty difficult way to get some cash for meth. I first heard about the thefts on Monday on the Comm ave mall. They did a great job getting the word out fast but I was still surprised how fast they got caught.

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Who knows, the meth might've been incidental. It was a coincidence they were caught same day as the news story, just dumb luck mixed with their stupidity.
-AJ
 
LOL

I guess if you're high on meth all the time you have to do something with the energy!
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Just wait till they get their hands on one of the new quiet electric saws for their midnight tweaker forays!

jomoco
 
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