A farmer had told off the youngsters for attempting to steal a melon from a neighbour's farm. Not only did the elderly man's word not prevent the youths from stealing the watermelon, but they incited the gang to come back later in the afternoon and exact petty revenge. - Bloomberg
VIETNAM, July 28 (Vietnam News/ANN): It was a quite small yet shocking piece of news. A weather-beaten farmer in his 60s was recently filmed in tears, tossing and turning on the ground of his watermelon farm amid a vast sea of watermelons that had been crushed and destroyed by a group of youths in a pathetic act of retaliation.
Earlier in the day, the farmer had told off the youngsters for attempting to steal a melon from a neighbour's farm. Not only did the elderly man's word not prevent the youths from stealing the watermelon, but they incited the gang to come back later in the afternoon and exact petty revenge.
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