Woman finds buckeyes missing from two trees

AMANDA, Ohio (AP) -- Sarah Young woke one recent morning to find her buckeye tree stripped bare of nuts.
Was it the work of busy squirrels or a buckeye bandit? Young suspects the latter.
"It's nuts!" Young said. "I want my buckeyes back."
It happened again last weekend. Young returned to her rural home about 25 miles southeast of Columbus and found her second buckeye tree shorn. A neighbor's buckeye tree also has been plundered.
Young and Fairfield County Sheriff Dave Phalen suspect there's a market for supplying the shiny, brown nuts to jewelry makers who sell buckeye necklaces on the streets around Ohio State University on football game days.
"The only thing I could think of is that they make buckeye necklaces and obviously that's why somebody would want them," Phalen said. "You can't eat them."
There are no suspects, he said.