family caught 'trying to steal £256-worth of apples in their car boot'

Lynd Fruit Farm shared a photo on Facebook of a customer’s car trunk full of apples (Picture: Lynd Fruit Farm)

A family-owned orchard has gone viral for exposing customers who allegedly tried to make off with their car boot full of apples.

Lynd Fruit Farm in Pataskala,Ohio,shared a photo of a car with the door open,revealing hundreds of yellow apples.

The photo shows a person holding an apple from the back seat. The individual’s face was concealed with a confused face emoji.

‘If you fill your bag but can’t stop picking our delicious apples,don’t be shy! Come talk to our greeters and ask for more bags,’ wrote the business on a Facebook post on September 1.

‘Hiding $300 of apples around your spare tire,under your kids,in your glove box,and under your seat is not the way to handle it!’

Andy Lynd,owner of Lynd Fruit Farm,said he made the customers pay for the extra apples they took (Picture: Facebook)

The business claimed there were four incidents of the kind on the same day,prompting them to take additional measures.

‘We will be having undercover security in the orchard the rest of the season,’ states the post.

‘If you see suspicious activity please report to our greeters or checkout team.’

The post has since received more than two million views,6,000 reactions and more than 500 comments.

Lynd Fruit Farm is known for apple and pumpkin picking and its corn maze (Picture: Facebook)

‘One bad apple!’ a Facebook user remarked.

Another wrote: ‘I hope you guys share their names and license plate numbers with all the other orchards in the area. These people should be universally blacklisted.’

But some social media users criticised the orchard for only including a picture of one of the four alleged offenders,as well as cropping out an individual.

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Follow us to receive the latest news updates from Metro (Picture: Getty Images)Metro’s on Whatsapp! Join our community for breaking news and juicy stories.‘The other 3 cases were not shared due them each being much more minor. Each were around $25 of hidden apples,’ responded the orchard.The orchard claimed that several customers tried to make off with about $25 in hidden apples (Picture: Facebook)‘The “white woman” that was cropped out of our photo is a fantastic employee of ours that was helping bag the hidden apples. Once we saw people confusing her as the customer we cropped her out as we should have done in the first place.’Lynd Fruit Farm also said it turned off comments for the post due to ‘racial’ remarks.The orchard,which is also popular for pumpkin picking and its corn maze,did not press charges against the customers but said they made them pay for the extra fruit.Andy Lynd,did not press charges against the customers (Picture: Facebook)‘When people drive to the checkout,they pop their trunk and we look and see,’ owner Andy Lynd told WSYX.‘Usually,it’s exactly what they said,and sometimes it’s not that case.’It happened four years after the owners of Connors Farm in Danvers,Massachusetts,accused a black couple with their seven-year-old child of stealing six apples and called police on them. The couple claimed that they spent more than $100 on admission for apple picking and food and drinks. Staff said they found the apples in the child’s stroller and not in a pre-paid picking bag.