These thieves are going to have a grand pumpkin pie feast on Halloween!
Some enterprising thieves have stolen about 600 pumpkins from a Long Island farm, with the loot worth a whopping USD 4,200.
The pumpkins were stolen from Rottkamp's Fox Hollow Farm on Long Island, New York, last weekend.
It is not yet known how the thieves got onto the property in Calverton, or how they managed to steal and take away 600 pumpkins without being seen.
The 250-acre farm has been owned by the Rottkamp family since 1967.
"Obviously, whoever took them is going to sell them," said Detective Timothy Hubbard of the Riverhead Town Police.
"I can't imagine anybody having another use for 600 pumpkins. That would be a lot of pie," he was quoted as saying by the 'New York Daily News'.
Pumpkins - either uncut, as jack-o'-lanterns or in pie - are a hot favourite for Halloween, observed in a number of countries on October 31.
