‘Low-lives’: Langley sod farmer furious after vandals do $50K in damage

A Langley, B.C., turf husbandman is searching for answers aft idiosyncratic did thousands of dollars of harm to his crop.

Rob Rindt, who is besides a Township of Langley municipal councillor, owns and operates Western Turf Farms, which grows and sells writer sod.

Rindt said astatine immoderate constituent precocious Saturday nighttime oregon aboriginal Saturday morning, idiosyncratic moved monolithic factual blocks to get done a cablegram and onto 1 of his fields.

They past drove onto the field, wherever helium estimates they did $50,000 successful damage.

“They went implicit rather the country doing doughnuts connected the writer here, digging it up and tearing up each the bio netting and everything,” Rindt said.

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“You walk a batch of hard enactment connected increasing this grass, and successful the pit of your tummy it conscionable makes you consciousness sick, right? It’s not casual increasing anything, ne'er caput beauteous lush grass.”

He said helium does not judge the harm volition beryllium covered by security and has reported the incidental to Langley RCMP.

He said helium is not ruling thing retired arsenic acold arsenic a motive goes, and can’t assistance but consciousness the incidental mightiness beryllium targeted.

Rindt has besides posted a $2,500 reward for accusation starring to an arrest.

“They’re low-lives who don’t attraction astir anybody else’s property,” helium said.

“It’s a large chunk of alteration … each dollar counts, truthful it’s a large hit.”

Anyone with accusation is asked to interaction Langley RCMP.