Saturday, August 18, 2007

Tree nicked

THOUSAND OAKS - It's not enough to leave home and worry someone will rip off your hi-def TV, Luis Vuitton handbags and prized golf clubs.

Kelley Fornatoro returned from vacation this month to find someone had ripped out her 50-foot pepper tree - roots, stump and all.

"I am so mad," said Fornatoro, 41, standing in her bare backyard, her newly exposed ground cover withering in the sun. "I haven't slept I've been so upset."

Fornatoro, a single mom who teaches at Woodland Hills Elementary School, said she had just returned from a weeklong vacation Aug. 10 when one of her two young sons said:

"Hey, Mom, the tree's gone." .... Read more here it's a long story!

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