@deadmoon gross

@Thevy29 Illegal mattress tag removal?

@swirlie Good grief! How did they manage that without being seen or heard?

@ArishMell

I was a teenager at the time, about 14 year old. I was out with my new boyfriend on a Friday night and instead of going to the drive-in movie like I told everyone at home we were doing, my boyfriend and I drove to a remote country property not far from my parent's farm, where we drove right to the back 40, turned off the motor, then turned on the radio and proceeded to make-out in the back seat of his mother's car.

Suddenly, I heard a loud, continuous noise. At first I thought it was a helicopter landing somewhere in the field when bright lights suddenly appeared and lit up the ground around us.

But it wasn't a helicopter, it was a giant John Deere grain combine that was making it's way across the back of the field, harvesting the wheat as it progressed along it's path.

In fact, when the combine came upon our parked car at the back fence line of the field, it actually went around us and never even stopped.

The thing was this... my father owned that field which was part of his farm and he never rented out the land to anyone.

The other thing was, my favorite job on the farm was driving the combine (in the daytime) and this field was scheduled to be harvested (by me on the weekend) about a week beyond the date of this nighttime occurrence.

So what I did was, I called my Dad on my cellphone from the backseat of my boyfriend's mom's car, which my mother answered ...because my Dad was fast asleep in front of the TV.

She summoned my Dad to the phone at my request and I asked him, why he was going behind my back to harvest the wheat late at night instead of letting me do it on the weekend a week from then?

He replied, "..I think our combine is still parked in the barn, Jen!".

He then asked me, "Where are you anyway?"

I said, "I'm at the back of the field right now and I'm watching someone harvest our grain!".

My Dad ask, "What are you doing at the back of that field, Jen?".

I replied, "Well, I'm making out with my boyfriend Josh, you know, the guy you really liked when I brought him home to meet you earlier this evening?".

He replied, "You told me you guys were going to the drive-in movie!... how did you end up at the back of that 100 acre field?".

I replied, "Well, the movie looked boring so we never went in, then we got back here in Josh's mom's car, which is where I'm sitting right now in the dark."

My Dad asked, "...sitting in his mom's car? Front seat or back seat, Jen?"

I said, "...well, the back seat of course. Why would we drive all the way back here to sit in the front seat once we got here?".

....dead silence on the line....

So I asked him, "Do you think we should call the police.... about the grain?".

"YES!" he shouted! "You call the police and I'll be right over to see what's going on!"

So, I called the police and they met us at the entrance to the field by the gravel roadway, just about the same time my Dad arrived in his pickup truck.

Turns out, there was an organized crime ring in the area that was stealing crops at night in remote locations and selling it on the black market by the truckload, all of which went overseas in a grain-carrying ocean vessel.

Bottom line is, they arrested the combine operator and the team he was working with, but that stuff still goes on to this day.

@OogieBoogie Merrick's finest