Parsnip thief alert

What the...?? I am speechless and saddened.

From wasted blog

Parsnips Dug Up And Stolen From Concord Farm
(CBS4) CONCORD Concord police are investigating the theft of two hundred pounds of parsnips from a non-profit farm.

Farmers from Gaining Ground, a nonprofit organic farming group, told the Concord Journal the vegetables were dug up and hauled off their property.

The quantity and the methodic way in which the carrot-like vegetables were dug up, led farmers to believe this was not the work of any creatures.

"To take every one of them and without asking, we were more than a little heartbroken," farm coordinator Verena Wieloch told the Journal.

Concord police Lt. Paul Macone said no arrests had been made, but that the matter was still under investigation.