Apple Tree Analogy - Hong Kong

Once upon a time, there was an unattended apple tree.  Everyone came to scrump, and nobody seemed to care.

One of these scrumped apple was so nice, so the pip was planted, and 150 years of tender loving care later, it has become a fruitful tree.

This is when the descendant of the owner of the original apple tree starting to claim this is their tree, since they had never given permission for the scrumped apples for a start. 

So now the apple tree is back in the original family's ownership, it is again unattended and left to decay.  The lucky apples will roll away and find fertile ground, some day there is a nice new apple tree; the rest will decay with the unattended tree.  Why wouldn't the owner look after the apple trees properly?  If they aren't,  just let someone that will.