If there's fruit growing on your side of the fence it's yours too... and I think that's fair enough - if you don't want the fruit falling in your yard cut it off at the fenceline.
One year somebody snuck into our backyard at the dead of night and totally stripped our large plum tree. Normally we leave the fruit for the birds because we don't really like it (it's a satsuma and the fruit tends to be very dry and hard and only good for cooking)... so I guess they thought we were 'wasting' it! When we went to bed the tree was full of fruit, and in the morning it was totally bare. The nerve of some people...
In UK you can cut off any branches that overhang your property, but you must give them back to the owner
Must I "give" them back, or may I THROW them back??!!!
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"Free. It was worth it just watching her get soaked when you didn't stop at the sidewalk."
Now, that was a funny story. Some people, unbelievable.
nancy
Indeed. The damned front of some people, unbelievable! Bare-faced rotten thievery and wonton destruction, getting caught in the act then persisting in such a rude manner too.
What I can't understand though, is why ranger used water and not white gas followed by a lit match...
Here, the part of the plant on your side of the line is yours to do with as you will- but re: Shylock, if you damage the plant on other side in your efforts done on your side, you pay.
Here (rural NH), a large number of the notable trees *are* the property lines. Two of the nine corners of my lot are defined by language in the title as being one of the large trees that's currently on the corner of the lot, and another corner is where another similar tree used to be (but has been gone for at least 60 years). At least the rest of the property lines are well-defined, since they come from a 1990's subdivision map. But having weird and vague property lines isn't uncommon in these parts.
In UK you can cut off any branches that overhang your property, but you must give them back to the owner
Well, we had four-legged thieves, with no recourse. We had planted a cherry tree, a peach tree and two apple trees on the property. In all those years, we never picked one piece of fruit. Even before the peaches and apples were anywhere mature, squirrels would swipe every one. To add insult to injury, they'd take one bite, toss that one then do the same to the next one. Birds would swipe the cherries before we had a chance to get to them. We tried all measures to protect those trees. Rather than getting irritated every year, we finally removed them. I like birds and animals, but don't push it! Grrr.
That's the way I raised my kids - if we went out for a treat and they acted up, I gathered them up and home we went. That message got through very quickly and they were always well behaved in public. Thank G*d.
I keep hearing people say they do that, but I have never seen it happen. I have seen kids behaving ub restaurants. I have seen kids act up and get disciplines. I have seen far too many kids acting up while their parents keep making threats that, from the number of times the threats are made, obviously are never carried out. And I have seen kids running around while their parents seem to be completely unaware of their intolerable behaviour. But never have I seen a family get up and leave because the kid(s) was(were) misbehaving.
I snatched my kid up, carried her out under my arm like a sack of spuds with her loudly protesting all the way. I gave my mom the cash for the meal and she paid the check while escorted her out of the restaurant. I've hauled her out of a supermarket once that way also. A few trips out like that and the message gets through quickly. I think I had to do it three times over a two year period. when she was about 3-4 years old.
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Works fast, doesn't it! BTW, I did pay on the way out - and everyone understood. Grateful, probably, for the peace and quiet. Dora
Well, we had four-legged thieves, with no recourse. We had planted a cherry tree, a peach tree and two apple trees on the property. In all those years, we never picked one piece of fruit. Even before the peaches and apples were anywhere mature, squirrels would swipe every one. To add insult to injury, they'd take one bite, toss that one then do the same to the next one. Birds would swipe the cherries before we had a chance to get to them. We tried all measures to protect those trees. Rather than getting irritated every year, we finally removed them. I like birds and animals, but don't push it! Grrr.
Animals and trees. Grr.. I used to have a very mischievous Lab who destroyed a number of things that I planted. One year I planted two wisteria bushes. A few hours later one of them was missing. I found it in the middle of the back hard, planted it again, and a few hours later it was missing again. It was in the back yard again. That was years ago. The bush is growing but has never flowered.
The same dog chewed on a cherry tree that I planted. He was only a pup and the punctures in the bark were tiny. The next year I noticed that a lot of the leaves on that one tree were turning yellow and curling around the edges. I asked a friend who owned a cherry orchard what would cause that. She told me to check the bottom of the trunk for punctures. It seems that some kind of bug gets into those little holes. The only recourse was to get rid of the tree. That set me back a few years on both trees because sour cherry trees are self sterile. You have to have a different variety of sour cherry nearby in order to get fertilization.
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>> When's your court date, BTW. "-) > > Hasn't happened yet. > > Here's that tale...
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Funniest thing I've read this week. Now, about the court date... You being sued by the picker thief that you watered down?
That was SWMBO's concern which forced a trip to my lawyer. Nothing's come of it yet.
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In my view you were stopping a theft of your property. This was done with the minimum amount of force necessary to stop the crime of theft and criminal damage to your property.
Pan Ohco
I still think it's funny and I've filed the hose revenge in the back of the "nasty neighbors" rolodex 😉
On Mon 14 Nov 2005 04:20:09a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Denny Wheeler?
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I'm not sure what you call them, but there used to be a sort of firecracker that was a small ball, smaller than a gumball, that when stepped or stomped on would emit a tiny explosion. I bought a whole box of them and scattered them across the path she usually took. That was her last trip across the yard.
There are now Pop-Its. But what you describe were called cherry bombs when/where I was a kid.
The cherry bombs I knew as a kid were larger, about the diameter of a nickel, and had a fuse to light. They were powerful enough to blow up a toilet (some kids in my highschool did that). Might be a regional thing.
I think it is/was. When I was in my 20s and 30s I heard about/encountered the cherry bombs you speak of.
-- -denny- "Do your thoughts call ahead or do they just arrive at your mouth unannounced?"
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"Free. It was worth it just watching her get soaked when you didn't stop at the sidewalk."
Now, that was a funny story. Some people, unbelievable.
nancy
Indeed. The damned front of some people, unbelievable! Bare-faced rotten thievery and wonton destruction, getting caught in the act then persisting in such a rude manner too.
What I can't understand though, is why ranger used water and not white gas followed by a lit match...
Woulda kilt the fruit tree.
-- -denny- "Do your thoughts call ahead or do they just arrive at your mouth unannounced?"
Animals and trees. Grr.. I used to have a very mischievous Lab who destroyed a number of things that I planted. One year I planted two wisteria bushes. A few hours later one of them was missing. I found it in the middle of the back hard, planted it again, and a few hours later it was missing again. It was in the back yard again.
We planted three rose shrubs in the back yard of our old house. We have a little Bichon mix who ATE them. Yeah, he's still alive. Neither the thorns nor Crash killed him.
On Mon 14 Nov 2005 04:20:09a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Denny Wheeler?
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Wayne Boatwright said:
I'm not sure what you call them, but there used to be a sort of firecracker that was a small ball, smaller than a gumball, that when stepped or stomped on would emit a tiny explosion. I bought a whole box of them and scattered them across the path she usually took. That was her last trip across the yard.
There are now Pop-Its. But what you describe were called cherry bombs when/where I was a kid.
The cherry bombs I knew as a kid were larger, about the diameter of a nickel, and had a fuse to light. They were powerful enough to blow up a toilet (some kids in my highschool did that). Might be a regional thing.
The cherry bombs could also take off parts of fingers. One boy in my high school managed to really mess up the plumbing and also lost some parts of his fingers. He spent a year or so in reform school. -- Susan N.
"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral, 48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy." Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974
The cherry bombs I knew as a kid were larger, about the diameter of a nickel, and had a fuse to light. They were powerful enough to blow up a toilet (some kids in my highschool did that). Might be a regional thing.
The cherry bombs could also take off parts of fingers. One boy in my high school managed to really mess up the plumbing and also lost some parts of his fingers. He spent a year or so in reform school. -- Susan N.
Years ago, it was in vogue around our area for the kids to put cherry bombs in mailboxes. I wonder how many people were injured that way.
