A town in England which shares its name with a popular television mystery program has a real-life unsolved caper on its hands thanks to some fruit-stealing ne'er-do-wells. According to a British media report, a community garden in Midsomer has been the site of a strange series of incidents in which diligent thieves have repeatedly taken a rather sizeable amount of strawberries and other fruit that is grown there. "It's the sort of thing people see and think, 'someone's stolen all the gooseberries,'" mused the mayor of the town which lent its name to the show Midsomer Murders.
The man in charge of overseeing the location, Brian Snellgrove, did not mince words when asked his opinion of the individual responsible for the thievery. "It's quite an amateur crime carried out by a person of rather low intelligence," he groused, lamenting that the stolen fruit shows a "breakdown of community spirit." Snellgrove says that he is considering installing security cameras at the site in the hopes of putting an end to the stealing.
Until then, however, he's attempting to send a message to the miscreants by way of signs posted at the garden. "We have put up some threatening notices, saying we know who they are and we know what they're doing," Snellgrove explained. However, in an indication that he may not be cut out for crime fighting, the beleaguered garden manager later revealed to the newspaper "the problem is I have no evidence." And so unless Snellgrove can catch the strawberry bandit literally red-handed, it seems that the crime spree could continue for quite some time.