The Pits: 150 pound watermelon stolen from Md. farm, $1,500 value

Hartford County farmer Bradley Northcote surmises it took more than just one person to get away with a watermelon that big.

Northcote has won several awards for his produce and says this full-figured fruit was on track to be the largest he'd ever grown.

"It takes a lot of time and energy to take care of these," he told CBS Baltimore.

Northcote told the station that last Friday he was doing his daily rounds, when he stumbled across a cut vine and realized one melon was missing.

"I was pretty dumbfounded to see it gone. I mean, who's going to steal a (150 lb.) piece of fruit? It's kind of ridiculous," Northcote said.

"It's just sad because we'd decided not to enter it into the Maryland State Fair this year because we wanted to see how large it could get," he said.

He's trying to figure out how the culprits got away with it.

"It takes normally two people to load them into a car just 10 yards away so to pick them up and carry them off the property..." he said.

And he said he can't understand how anyone even knew the watermelon was there, because the patch is hidden from the roadway.

"Nobody's going to see this one behind all these weeds.... It doesn't make sense. How does someone know to get this specific watermelon?" he told CBS Baltimore.

Northcote filed a police report. The sheriff's office says they have no leads and no suspects.

Northcote says all he can do is hope whoever took it enjoyed it. His family donates a lot of produce to needy families and homeless shelter.

Like we said earlier - it's the pits.

(Editor's note: The world record for the biggest watermelon is around 290 pounds.)