Your right and I have the photos to prove it. They sawed them off 6 inches above the ground and were just ready almost in my opinion. They were way too big to jank the trunks were about 5 inches accross. I can't complain as I had harvested about 10 plants so I'm not without something to smoke but these I was looking forward to. I figure they must have used truck and tarped them.
Same thing happened to me back in college. We all got back to the house at the same time. We had a guy staying there over the summer. Evidently somebody was watching the grow, and they came in and chopped while we were all at school registering. God dammit were we pissed.
All we found was a trail of buds leading from the backyard to the road.
Get a security camera, and hook it up as a "webcam" to your home desktop computer. Aim it on your plants, and use it to record. You can dedicate so much space on the HD for it, and it will just loop over. I'd set it to use 5 gigs of space. That way, you can check on your outdoor babies from any PC. And 5 gigs is plenty of space to record HiRes video. Ya aint gonna use it to get them arrested, but you'll know who robbed you and then you can deal with THAT accordingly.
Threatening to kill someone is so passe, my personal fav is to have them beaten into unconciousness, with particular attention paid to elbows, fingers, and knee caps. A couple months in traction followed by extended physical therapy. After that kind of beating they are never the same. They are scared of shadows. It RARELY takes a repeat to get the message across. The dope boys in the hood
DO have their uses!!