Vegetables Swiped From Resident's Garden Corn, Green Beans, Squash, Tomatoes Taken From Resident

Vegetables Swiped From Resident's Garden

Corn, Green Beans, Squash, Tomatoes Taken From Resident

• Video: Gardener Has Veggies Stolen

LAFAYETTE, Tenn. -- A Macon County resident said thieves entered her garden and stripped her of many of the vegetables she has been growing all summer long.


During the night, thieves stole corn, green beans, squash and tomatoes from Vicki Adams.When Adams found out about the thefts, she was furious."What I said can't be repeated on camera," said Adams.Other neighboring gardens have been hit as well, but Adams has the biggest garden of any that has been stripped.It stretches from just outside her front door to across her street, but most of the produce she had been tending to has been taken from her.Passers by have told Adams her loss is a sign of tough economic times, but she has an answer to that statement."They need to be made to get a job and work like I have to," said Adams.Adams cans, and eats every morsel she raises from her garden. She's hoping the thieves don't come back for what's left."I get out here in the hot sun, while everybody else is in the air conditioning. I hoe out my garden. That's what I love to do," said Adams.She believes the thieves stole her vegetables to buy drugs and said green beans are selling for $20 to $28 a bushel.Macon County sheriff's deputies are investigating what happened, but authorities said the likelihood of the thieves being caught and Adams getting her vegetables back is slim.