{"id":5602,"date":"2010-09-30T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2018-01-11T15:57:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T20:57:50","slug":"even-rustlers-are-going-vegetarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/30\/even-rustlers-are-going-vegetarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Even rustlers are going vegetarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scourge of the old west (at least in TV and movie representations) were cattle rustlers. Their modern counterparts are apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-11442633?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">grape rustlers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Thieves in France have broken into a vineyard and stolen an entire crop of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, say police.<\/p>\n<p>They struck in Villeneuve-les-Beziers on Sunday night, taking advantage of a full moon and using a harvesting machine to seize 30 tonnes of the crop.<\/p>\n<p>Farmer Roland Cavaille said similar crimes had taken place before in the Languedoc-Roussillon, one of France&#8217;s best-known wine growing regions.<\/p>\n<p>He said the theft amounted to a year&#8217;s work and about 15,000 euro (\u00a312,900).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They used a harvesting machine to gather grapes. This means there was no need to have lots of people, two people would have been enough,&#8221; Mr Cavaille told Le Parisien newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The area was quite isolated, it is a a few kilometres from the village and near a river. So the thieves were able to work safely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a joke in there about sour grapes, but I&#8217;m not clever enough to put it together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scourge of the old west (at least in TV and movie representations) were cattle rustlers. Their modern counterparts are apparently grape rustlers: Thieves in France have broken into a vineyard and stolen an entire crop of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, say police. They struck in Villeneuve-les-Beziers on Sunday night, taking advantage of a full moon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1117,9,131],"tags":[343],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-law","category-wine","tag-crimeandpunishment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1sm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5603,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions\/5603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}