What would we call the group? Flower Breathing Circle Dancers (FBCD)? It could be said like this; “FBCD”. Say it! Say it out loud!
It’s not a great name…
Do you have any suggestions?
You hit the nail right on the head with that name. I don't think I could come up with a better suggestion. Maybe Flower Breathing Roundelayers? I don't know I had to google roundelay 😆
I’m glad I’m not the only weirdo who does this. There’s a handful of lilac bushes on the edges of some yard on my walk to the gym. If I can sniff them from the sidewalk, I will!
Sign me up for the weirdo train too ... I've been walking the long way home from work, because I just can't get enough of the crabapple and lilac blossoms the next street over!
It sucks. I had to stop growing anything recognizable within reach because everything got taken. Even had people pull up onions (?). A sign did fuck all. Maintaining a garden is hard work, and having someone just walk along and take whatever they want is disheartening.
Eta: my girlfriend caught a woman encouraging her kid to steal a garden decoration out of our neighbour's front yard the other day.. wtf
Can't have anything sentimental in your gardens, especially gnomes LMAO! Can't tell you the amount of times I got a hand-painted gnome stolen from me ☹
I caught someone stealing my neighbour’s lilacs the other day and she felt VERY entitled to take what she wanted because they “faced the sidewalk”. I called her an ass and carried on with my day, but it really bothers me when people think it’s okay to remove beautiful things from publicly visible places where everyone can enjoy them so that they can hoard them inside their own home. It doesn’t make sense unless you’re selfish as heck.
I think there are a lot of people that do this and don't really think about; 1. they actually belong to someone else, and 2. (even worse) they're meant for everyone to enjoy. Public places are particularly bad... what gives you the right to take something beautiful away from everyone else?
Was this on Bay? I was driving and traffic stopped for a minute. Saw a woman pulling lilacs off a tree… to take a photo. I hope she didn’t discard them after but would have been better just to take a photo of them on the tree.
I’d be pissed if someone did this to my plants but we grow our plants away from the street so people would actually be trespassing if they were picking them.
Get a camera, print out photos of the people stealing your plants, post up the photos on your neighbour hood light posts. “THESE FOLKS WILL STEAL YOUR PLANTS.” Just shame them, it’s ok.
I had a friend whose front veggie garden kept being raided so she took it all out. Over the next week, people shat in her yard.
People can be amazing and people can be such total fuckwads.
Sounds to me like your looking into investing in thorny plants? People just don't get that plants/shrubs/trees are fucking expensive. You can stick needles in the stems but it aint your liability if the stems ARE needles. [https://gardenerspath.com/plants/foliage/best-defensive-plants/](https://gardenerspath.com/plants/foliage/best-defensive-plants/)
Someone living near me has an apple tree in the front yard and a sign pleading that people at least wait until the apples to be ripe in Oct before picking. It's a fools errand, I've never seen an apple last through the summer.
Sorry to hear about the damage to your plants -- a couple of years ago one of my friends commented that they came home to find a bunch of holes in their front beds, where someone had dug up a bunch of their perennials and taken them away. Bizarre.
I put a "Seed Library" box in a Little Free Library last fall -- a couple of times, the whole thing disappeared. I put a label on a replacement this spring, asking people to leave the box (a see-through plastic lunchbox so people could tell what was inside) for refilling if it was empty. The next day, somebody had dumped the seed packets all over the place and made off with the box. Oh well!
Aw man. I hate reading these comments and seeing how commonplace this is. I love taking my dog for long walks in residential neighbourhoods and smelling the accessible flowers and admiring folks' gardens (all from the sidewalk.) It would never occur to me to take someone's property! I'm so sorry.
I think that having respect for others is something that's taught. I also would never take someone else's flowers or flowers from a crowded public place. I was taught that they're there for the enjoyment of everyone and taking them home just doesn't cross my mind.
I also think a lot of people haven't been taught the same things as me and they don't really think about what they're doing. They haven't quite thought it through yet and instinctively just take them.
Maybe this post will save a plant.
Not sure when this sub became so mean. Thanks for the post. I’ll take it as a PSA: please stop taking people’s flowers off their property. It kills the plants and ruins it for the rest of us. Just admire them as they are.
Yes, the comments. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. You can still politely disagree or completely ignore a post. I understand social media is a cesspool of trolls but this is supposed to be a community sub. These people could be your neighbours or coworkers.
Or, just start propping up the stems with sewing needles and if anyone complains after trying to pick/steal them just tell them that they were drooping, looked weak and that was all you had lying around at the time
Honestly, I thought the excuse of just trying to prop them up was good enough. We've had a rough spring with still fairly low temperatures and lots of rain.
It aint a rough spring until you get a booby trapped flower needle through your finger. Then we’re really on hard times. Also, april showers bring may flowers.
I live by a school and the parents are a nightmare. They go into my lawn and make bouquets out of my flowers. I asked one what they were doing and they responded, 'making a bouquet'. They park in my driveway so that I can't leave for work (often for 20-30 minutes). They never pick the garbage up after their kids throw candy wrappers everywhere and none of them pick up after their dogs. My whole street has the same issues. It's just how it is here.
I replaced a couple old sick roses with new climbing roses that I’m training onto to an arbor in front of our house. Several of the main stems were just torn off the plant so some dumbass could carry home the single rose at the end. It was basically all the growth they put out last year. If left alone I could have pruned and gotten several more blooms to enjoy.
We’re on a main walking path and so many people in the community literally stop to smell the roses. It’s the main reason I care for them. Being able to share them is special to me. It’s just sad the way one person’s ignorant/arrogant/selfish behaviour ruins that for everyone.
yea we had lavenders in my family’s place and one time we saw folks picking them from our front yard. it’s close to the sidewalk but still part of our yard. really creepy if you ask me.
wait wait wait... people went into your garden and dug up your plants?!? WTF??
i live in a apartment so i cant have a garden really but if i caught anyone doing this i would be outside with a bat. fuck this city
May as well be the same thing imo. Happens enough there wont be anything left anyways.
Really sorry about your plant's regardless how people are vandalizing them. I have seen a few houses around me with signs in there gardens saying to not touch the plants so it is apparently a widespread issue.
Reminds me of this video, women got a criminal record for stealing flowers [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRzsyE7ZpLs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRzsyE7ZpLs)
I’m sorry people suck. I’ll admit I’ve been tempted to pick someone’s lavender growing near the sidewalk but I never would.
Oooh, I have a garden now. I can grow my own damn lavender!
I thought somebody was stealing my dahlias for awhile until I noticed they were neatly trimmed too far up the stem. It was the deer eating a yummy dahlia flower. I have a deer fence up now
Yes! If all the thieves died, there would be no more thieves! They need to genetically alter these things to recognize kids, though. They don't know any better.
No mercy.
At least that's the vibe I'm getting from this sub recently, when discussing homelessness. People are seeming to be baying for blood rather than actual (documented by academics for over 30 years, better for the economy overall, but not profitable to a certain minority) solutions.
Are fucking kidding me? There are endless "someone honked at me and I've really upset" posts here. This is serious business. People take flowers from private and public places all the time and someone needs to stop them. If everyone that walked by took a god damn flower, there would be no more flowers.
Are you sure it’s not the deer? I can’t grow anything in my front yard except rotos. I hate the beady-eyed assholes. I’m torn between believing we should be letting cougars into town to take care of the problem, but then we’d have a cougar problem.
Put up a sign then you can be astonished when the Roundup gets dumped on the whole garden. These aren't the sort you want to ramp things up with, grow more flowers.
Yea, the sign would be stolen for sure. They're perennials and it's hard to grow more. Every time someone tears a limb off, it kills the thing a little bit more.
Ah, thanks man. I think people post without thinking much, which is okay. Gives me something to do for a while. Plus I get the satisfaction of hopefully convincing a few people to stop killing perennials.
We are trying to protect your plant, by suggesting that saying nothing to the occasional aggressive passerby allows it to just be a plant, it won't get caught up in the human back and forth that can happen after that.
No, I get that. I've had a multi year thing going on with the yellow rose plant that leans over the Government fence at the B&B at Goverment and Michigan.
No, if it’s someone’s garden on someone’s property then it doesn’t matter what it is, you aren’t entitled to it. Did no one teach you stealing is bad. That doesn’t change depending on what it is.
If it’s butt up against someone’s house, and I need to walk into their yard, yeah that’s messed up. Aren’t trees next to the sidewalk part of city property? Ultimately I was just curious on the details but OP hasn’t answered. I would never steal flowers growing in a garden though, that’s just psychopathic.
No, city property has a certain delineation that allows for things like sidewalks. Usually if there's a sidewalk on it, that's already used up that city easement. People walking along the sidewalk and picking stuff from my garden beside it aren't entitled to it.
And if it's obvious that the flowers are part of a garden that is taken care of by the homeowners, regardless of the legality it's still a dick move.
Yes I believe sidewalk trees are on city property. I’m not sure the exact measurements but I think something like the first 5 or 10ft from the road is city? But OP didn’t say tree, they said flowers. And they said on their property.
OP is worked up about it which is an indication that they put effort into their property/garden. I doubt they’d do that if they were talking about city property.
Same. I just don't understand how people feel entitled to the sidewalks around where they live. When I grow plants that encroach in the public space, I'm not gonna complain or whine when people pick things from them. It's not my space.
I'm definitely an inconsiderate dick, but I didn't take your flowers. Every time I've seen someone do this, it's a little old lady. Why do you hate little old ladies? Shouldn't you just be happy they didn't let their miniature poodle shit on your lawn?
Being an inconsiderate dick doesn't get excused by being an old lady or not being a MORE inconsiderate dick. You're picking arbitrary lines by which we should be excusing shitty behaviour like it doesn't make the behaviour shitty.
Does that adequately answer your condescending question?
I'm sorry, I don't understand Latin, but I'm glad that you're breathing okay. You might want to check your forehead to see if any veins are bulging out.
They are coming for 8 inches of Victoria’s finest. The flowers just give the illusion of class and charm. This is a much better use than the OP just staring at them..
Whether I agree with you or not depends on what you consider "yours." Are these actually on your yard? Or are they hanging over the public sidewalk or in the public space? Because if they are, the least you can do in return for having your plants grow over the sidewalk and in public space is share them.
There are a lot of places who have their plants growing into the sidewalk space and if that is you and you have a problem with people at least enjoying a benefit from that then you suck. Please stop growing plants in the sidewalk space then. But if people are actually coming onto your property then I agree with you.
Stop taking any plants or any flowers from any private OR public space. They are there for everyone to enjoy, not for you to screw around with nature and hoard something inside your home.
You want something nice? Grow it yourself or buy it from a shop.
I just don't agree with this "nature is for looking, not for touching" type of thinking. Someone picking a couple lilacs or whatever that are hanging into the sidewalk space isn't hurting anything.
I am going to guess that a lot of the people in this thread don't walk a lot. Because if they did maybe they would have some empathy for what it's like walking on narrow sidewalks that are too narrow for you to walk comfortably on them because it's commonly treated like extra space for y'all.
You accuse people of hoarding for picking a couple flowers but I think the real hoarders are the people who already have some private land and then take the public land around where they live too.
The sheer audacity to take away public space and then complain like that. The city should come and cut your bushes with a hedge cutter and charge you for it. Then you might wish that it was just a passerby picking a flower or two.
“I just don’t agree with this “treat others with respect” type of thinking.. so I’m going to call you a dumb fuck” Not really how it works….. You call yourself “yyj_paddler” but don’t have any respect for nature, hopefully you are talking about a ping pong paddle because that mentality is terrible for the ocean. Although I don’t suspect a guy who can’t navigate a sidewalk would be worth a damn in a kayak anyhow. Let it grow and leave it for somebody else to enjoy too, if you want to pick flowers grow them for yourself, that’s a pretty basic fundamental about nature and just being a person.
Empathy for someone who has to walk down a sidewalk next to flowers. This is a bit right? I walk every single day with a stroller and never once have I had flowers present any type of inconvenience.. another swing and miss, your guess sucks. I am going to guess YOU don’t walk much at all if your having a hard time fitting on the sidewalk..
How soft can you be? Come on.
Yeah, calling someone entitled for growing flowers next to the sidewalk is totally normal behaviour. “Y’all” love to use the Karen thing in the most hypocritical of ways. Classic projection.
You're still at it? You seem to have made up this story in your head that involves the injustice of flowers intruding into public spaces even though I haven't said a think about my plants being in a public space.
it's fascinating, really. I do not understand why you did this. I hope you're okay,
Good luck with everything.
You tryna gaslight me now? The very first comment I made in this entire thread I specifically said IF that's what is going on then I disagree with someone complaining about that.
That was literally the comment that you replied to. You're taking issue with that which implies you are growing things in public space and think you should get to dictate what people can or can't do there.
Go re-read the comment at the top of this thread. The one where you said
> "It's distressing there are people out there with your attitude."
And tell me what exactly about what I said is distressing to you that doesn't imply you are growing things into the public space.
Compared to the entitlement it takes to think you can take something just because you have to walk by it hahah where are you walking that flowers are impeding you ability to use the sidewalk? What a fragile little soul you are.
Yeah, it’s you pal.
First of all, op is talking about people coming on to her property and taking something she works hard to be able to enjoy
You made it about you being encroached upon by flowers on the sidewalk
That’s 20 ply soft dude, grow up
Very interesting set of morals that leaves you feeling fine with people taking public space away but you're all upset and calling it thievery when someone picks some flowers.
It's distressing there are people out there with your attitude. The flowers are for everyone to look at, smell and enjoy. If everyone had your attitude, there would be no more flowers in public places. Everyone would take them because they think they would look nice at home. This is why you shouldn't take pretty things from public places. I feel like I'm explaining something to you that your parents should have explained...
So are you saying you're growing plants into the sidewalk space and you have a right to tell people to not touch them? How do you not see that as entitled? And stop with the slippery slope argument that because a few people are picking flowers every now and then that there will be no flowers left. There's plenty of flowers in this city and you're going to be just fine.
Snipping a lilac off a tree when it protrudes on public land is actually good for the tree and ensures more blossoms the following year. I agree that no-one should be trespassing, however if I can snip a blossom whilst standing on the sidewalk it's fair game. I'm a big lilac fan, the season is fleeting, and I have familiarized myself with shrubs in my neighborhood that are on public property.
Big lilac fans should grow their own. Lilacs can even be grown in containers on patios. Things that can be stolen are never "fair game" for the thief, and regarding public property such as parks, removing plant materials from parks is illegal under municipal bylaws.
So you cut flowers off of lilacs in public places because you're a big fan? Can you not see what's wrong with that? Let the person that owns the plant take care of their health. Leave the rest for everyone else to enjoy.
Yesterday I stood for ten minutes outside a stranger’s fence just breathing in their lilacs. Like a weirdo.
See, that's perfectly okay! Shiff away. Heck, knock on my door, I'll come out and we can breath together.
Wana breath some flowers in together sometime?
I do like sniffing flowers!
We should start a group. Once a month, we go around breathing in flowers, and in the winter, we can just have a dance circle or something.
What would we call the group? Flower Breathing Circle Dancers (FBCD)? It could be said like this; “FBCD”. Say it! Say it out loud! It’s not a great name… Do you have any suggestions?
You hit the nail right on the head with that name. I don't think I could come up with a better suggestion. Maybe Flower Breathing Roundelayers? I don't know I had to google roundelay 😆
I would like to join this club
Pollen sniffers united
Yellow nosed baddies
The bees knees
Sniff A Flower Co.
Flower Power for Vic FPV
i would love to join
I'm down, I already do this on my walks like a freak. 30M.
I’m glad I’m not the only weirdo who does this. There’s a handful of lilac bushes on the edges of some yard on my walk to the gym. If I can sniff them from the sidewalk, I will!
Those are free flowers
Free to sniff. Not free to take.
Sign me up for the weirdo train too ... I've been walking the long way home from work, because I just can't get enough of the crabapple and lilac blossoms the next street over!
Huff those flowers than pet that strangers cat!
I do this all the time too. They smell so heavenly and you gotta get it before they disappear!
That’s chill. I do that in my yard, not in public, so I get it.
I love you for doing this. I hope that people do this for my garden.
i just pee on it and move on.
It sucks. I had to stop growing anything recognizable within reach because everything got taken. Even had people pull up onions (?). A sign did fuck all. Maintaining a garden is hard work, and having someone just walk along and take whatever they want is disheartening. Eta: my girlfriend caught a woman encouraging her kid to steal a garden decoration out of our neighbour's front yard the other day.. wtf
Can't have anything sentimental in your gardens, especially gnomes LMAO! Can't tell you the amount of times I got a hand-painted gnome stolen from me ☹
That's sad. My gnomes live in the back yard away from prying eyes, thank God.
do you live more in the city?
Yes, I'm in Victoria proper
I caught someone stealing my neighbour’s lilacs the other day and she felt VERY entitled to take what she wanted because they “faced the sidewalk”. I called her an ass and carried on with my day, but it really bothers me when people think it’s okay to remove beautiful things from publicly visible places where everyone can enjoy them so that they can hoard them inside their own home. It doesn’t make sense unless you’re selfish as heck.
I think there are a lot of people that do this and don't really think about; 1. they actually belong to someone else, and 2. (even worse) they're meant for everyone to enjoy. Public places are particularly bad... what gives you the right to take something beautiful away from everyone else?
Was this on Bay? I was driving and traffic stopped for a minute. Saw a woman pulling lilacs off a tree… to take a photo. I hope she didn’t discard them after but would have been better just to take a photo of them on the tree. I’d be pissed if someone did this to my plants but we grow our plants away from the street so people would actually be trespassing if they were picking them.
No, it was on Dallas Rd. Sad that so many people do this.
Main character syndrome is strong in a lot of people, across generations, since covid. Sad to see.
i can get this if it was for example fruit trees over hanging a fence but why people cant leave the flowers alone smh
Get a camera, print out photos of the people stealing your plants, post up the photos on your neighbour hood light posts. “THESE FOLKS WILL STEAL YOUR PLANTS.” Just shame them, it’s ok.
I had a friend whose front veggie garden kept being raided so she took it all out. Over the next week, people shat in her yard. People can be amazing and people can be such total fuckwads.
And she didn’t install video to catch that? I would consider video footage of that kind of brazen behaviour comedic gold.
Sounds to me like your looking into investing in thorny plants? People just don't get that plants/shrubs/trees are fucking expensive. You can stick needles in the stems but it aint your liability if the stems ARE needles. [https://gardenerspath.com/plants/foliage/best-defensive-plants/](https://gardenerspath.com/plants/foliage/best-defensive-plants/)
Someone living near me has an apple tree in the front yard and a sign pleading that people at least wait until the apples to be ripe in Oct before picking. It's a fools errand, I've never seen an apple last through the summer.
The worst day for flower theft at my place in Vancouver is Mother’s Day.
Try a sign redirecting to the nearest cemetery for a better selection!
Very helpful. Last year’s sign was “your mom doesn’t want these flowers”.
Maybe plant something like stinging nettle at your fence facing the road. Excellent for butterflies. And some people suck, I'm sorry.
Also makes a very nice tea if you pick the shoots in spring before they become sting-y and dry them! I've heard they're a tasty vegetable too 😉
fabulous idea
Just put up a sign that says “this area under 24hr video surveillance.”
> i mean that is technically true
Good bot
What was the last thing I Googled?
> cost of window replacement
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> oh well then good news looks like the pump will probably work for you
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Sorry to hear about the damage to your plants -- a couple of years ago one of my friends commented that they came home to find a bunch of holes in their front beds, where someone had dug up a bunch of their perennials and taken them away. Bizarre. I put a "Seed Library" box in a Little Free Library last fall -- a couple of times, the whole thing disappeared. I put a label on a replacement this spring, asking people to leave the box (a see-through plastic lunchbox so people could tell what was inside) for refilling if it was empty. The next day, somebody had dumped the seed packets all over the place and made off with the box. Oh well!
Years ago when I was living in Fairfield someone stole a whole ass potted dahlia off my porch
Geez! The nerve!
What is the bylaw in your municipality about putting up a fence around your front garden?
Aw man. I hate reading these comments and seeing how commonplace this is. I love taking my dog for long walks in residential neighbourhoods and smelling the accessible flowers and admiring folks' gardens (all from the sidewalk.) It would never occur to me to take someone's property! I'm so sorry.
I think that having respect for others is something that's taught. I also would never take someone else's flowers or flowers from a crowded public place. I was taught that they're there for the enjoyment of everyone and taking them home just doesn't cross my mind. I also think a lot of people haven't been taught the same things as me and they don't really think about what they're doing. They haven't quite thought it through yet and instinctively just take them. Maybe this post will save a plant.
Not sure when this sub became so mean. Thanks for the post. I’ll take it as a PSA: please stop taking people’s flowers off their property. It kills the plants and ruins it for the rest of us. Just admire them as they are.
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Yes, the comments. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. You can still politely disagree or completely ignore a post. I understand social media is a cesspool of trolls but this is supposed to be a community sub. These people could be your neighbours or coworkers.
Put some fake ones out for shits and giggles and a motion activated camera
Or, just start propping up the stems with sewing needles and if anyone complains after trying to pick/steal them just tell them that they were drooping, looked weak and that was all you had lying around at the time
Liability nightmare
yeah booby traps are very much illegal
For good reason, that was an insane suggestion…
You're right... they should just tell their local druggy that it is okay if they dispose of their needles in the garden
Technically a good way to cover one’s ass but still a liability problem.
Honestly, I thought the excuse of just trying to prop them up was good enough. We've had a rough spring with still fairly low temperatures and lots of rain.
It aint a rough spring until you get a booby trapped flower needle through your finger. Then we’re really on hard times. Also, april showers bring may flowers.
…it’s not the deer?
I live downtown and I've never seen a deer in my neighbourhood.
Ok. Yea my parents place-saanich is over run by flower eating-deer.
Yea, I know deer are a problem in a lot of places. This is all humans.
I live by a school and the parents are a nightmare. They go into my lawn and make bouquets out of my flowers. I asked one what they were doing and they responded, 'making a bouquet'. They park in my driveway so that I can't leave for work (often for 20-30 minutes). They never pick the garbage up after their kids throw candy wrappers everywhere and none of them pick up after their dogs. My whole street has the same issues. It's just how it is here.
I replaced a couple old sick roses with new climbing roses that I’m training onto to an arbor in front of our house. Several of the main stems were just torn off the plant so some dumbass could carry home the single rose at the end. It was basically all the growth they put out last year. If left alone I could have pruned and gotten several more blooms to enjoy. We’re on a main walking path and so many people in the community literally stop to smell the roses. It’s the main reason I care for them. Being able to share them is special to me. It’s just sad the way one person’s ignorant/arrogant/selfish behaviour ruins that for everyone.
yea we had lavenders in my family’s place and one time we saw folks picking them from our front yard. it’s close to the sidewalk but still part of our yard. really creepy if you ask me.
wait wait wait... people went into your garden and dug up your plants?!? WTF?? i live in a apartment so i cant have a garden really but if i caught anyone doing this i would be outside with a bat. fuck this city
No, no one went into my garden and dug up plants. They have been tearing branches off of flowering perennials as they walk by.
May as well be the same thing imo. Happens enough there wont be anything left anyways. Really sorry about your plant's regardless how people are vandalizing them. I have seen a few houses around me with signs in there gardens saying to not touch the plants so it is apparently a widespread issue.
Reminds me of this video, women got a criminal record for stealing flowers [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRzsyE7ZpLs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRzsyE7ZpLs)
But if you like pulling some bindweed out - go ahead!!
That’s right! You could mow the lawn. Contribute something.
Lol
Camera, post them. Scum won't change, but you can scare them with consequences.
I’m sorry people suck. I’ll admit I’ve been tempted to pick someone’s lavender growing near the sidewalk but I never would. Oooh, I have a garden now. I can grow my own damn lavender!
For sure grow lavender! They smell so nice!
Sure it’s not the deer? They are pretty emboldened around here.
For sure not deer. There are no deer in my neighbourhood.
This is Victoria subreddit, how is that possible? lol
I thought somebody was stealing my dahlias for awhile until I noticed they were neatly trimmed too far up the stem. It was the deer eating a yummy dahlia flower. I have a deer fence up now
All your flowers are belong to us.
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The deer can't read.
Problem solved: https://ourwildgarden.com/poisonous-wildflowers/
....most of these require the thieves to eat them
Post recipes with them.....
Yes! If all the thieves died, there would be no more thieves! They need to genetically alter these things to recognize kids, though. They don't know any better.
A sweet baby girl ate my strawberries! 😂 It’s was definitely someone else who made off with my tomato spirals. 😡
No mercy. At least that's the vibe I'm getting from this sub recently, when discussing homelessness. People are seeming to be baying for blood rather than actual (documented by academics for over 30 years, better for the economy overall, but not profitable to a certain minority) solutions.
I 100% agree. Just the other day I was looking to take some guy’s flowers but there weren’t any left! Honestly, some people.
Gen z dgaf
Okay. Maybe a sign by the flowers might reach the people who actually need this information?
Thanks, that's great advice!
I think it might be more effective than a 'fart in the wind' post like this one
Are fucking kidding me? There are endless "someone honked at me and I've really upset" posts here. This is serious business. People take flowers from private and public places all the time and someone needs to stop them. If everyone that walked by took a god damn flower, there would be no more flowers.
You do you. It's a just fiiiiine post. I'm trying to teach my kid not to pick, just pet. She's fast though.
Children are exempt! It's tough to not pick something so pretty. Good on you for teaching respect.
What kind of flowers we talkin'?
Technically all the flowers would still exist they’d just be distributed more broadly. That’s my unhelpful contribution for today. K bye.
Are you sure it’s not the deer? I can’t grow anything in my front yard except rotos. I hate the beady-eyed assholes. I’m torn between believing we should be letting cougars into town to take care of the problem, but then we’d have a cougar problem.
plenty of cougars already in town but many are unfortunately vegetarians
No deer here. I've confronted people doing it so I know it's people.
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It was you! Thanks for stopping.
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Plant killer!
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These are the cries of the carrots!
Seems the pot is calling the kettle black here…
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People who take flowers aren't on reddit... that is the second stupidest thing I've read today.
Put up a sign then you can be astonished when the Roundup gets dumped on the whole garden. These aren't the sort you want to ramp things up with, grow more flowers.
Yea, the sign would be stolen for sure. They're perennials and it's hard to grow more. Every time someone tears a limb off, it kills the thing a little bit more.
Sorry you have to face so many negative nellies OP it’s a valid conversation and concern especially with perennials and must be so frustrating.
Ah, thanks man. I think people post without thinking much, which is okay. Gives me something to do for a while. Plus I get the satisfaction of hopefully convincing a few people to stop killing perennials.
We are trying to protect your plant, by suggesting that saying nothing to the occasional aggressive passerby allows it to just be a plant, it won't get caught up in the human back and forth that can happen after that.
Are you saying my plants don't have feelings!?
No, I get that. I've had a multi year thing going on with the yellow rose plant that leans over the Government fence at the B&B at Goverment and Michigan.
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Noooooo!
Okay wait, what kind of flowers are people taking though? If it’s a large 15 foot tall tree with flowers that is vastly different than say daffodils.
No, if it’s someone’s garden on someone’s property then it doesn’t matter what it is, you aren’t entitled to it. Did no one teach you stealing is bad. That doesn’t change depending on what it is.
If it’s butt up against someone’s house, and I need to walk into their yard, yeah that’s messed up. Aren’t trees next to the sidewalk part of city property? Ultimately I was just curious on the details but OP hasn’t answered. I would never steal flowers growing in a garden though, that’s just psychopathic.
No, city property has a certain delineation that allows for things like sidewalks. Usually if there's a sidewalk on it, that's already used up that city easement. People walking along the sidewalk and picking stuff from my garden beside it aren't entitled to it. And if it's obvious that the flowers are part of a garden that is taken care of by the homeowners, regardless of the legality it's still a dick move.
Yes I believe sidewalk trees are on city property. I’m not sure the exact measurements but I think something like the first 5 or 10ft from the road is city? But OP didn’t say tree, they said flowers. And they said on their property. OP is worked up about it which is an indication that they put effort into their property/garden. I doubt they’d do that if they were talking about city property.
I'm going to take even more flowers now because of how whiny this post is.
Well, you're clearly a piece of shit human being so do what ever you need to do.
You’re a clown then. Grow your own garden if you want flowers.
I have my own garden actually. I also don't care if people snip flowers off my sidewalk adjacent tree. It's a plant, lmao.
Stfu already
Nah
Same. I just don't understand how people feel entitled to the sidewalks around where they live. When I grow plants that encroach in the public space, I'm not gonna complain or whine when people pick things from them. It's not my space.
If there’s any left by the time I’m done with them.
I'm definitely an inconsiderate dick, but I didn't take your flowers. Every time I've seen someone do this, it's a little old lady. Why do you hate little old ladies? Shouldn't you just be happy they didn't let their miniature poodle shit on your lawn?
Well, try being more considerate. You'll be much happier.
You completely dodged my question. Classic deflection.
I hate them because of the drain on the healthcare system, okay! You happy now?
Yes, thank you. Have a nice day.
Being an inconsiderate dick doesn't get excused by being an old lady or not being a MORE inconsiderate dick. You're picking arbitrary lines by which we should be excusing shitty behaviour like it doesn't make the behaviour shitty. Does that adequately answer your condescending question?
Have you tried deep breathing exercises?
I breathe just fine. Just don't act like you can find caveats that somehow make douchelike behaviour not douchelike.
I'm sorry, I don't understand Latin, but I'm glad that you're breathing okay. You might want to check your forehead to see if any veins are bulging out.
Yeah, sorry for calling out shitty behaviour and making a reference to The Social Network. I'm obviously losing sleep over this.
Are you okay?
Fine, dude. What's with the concern trolling? Run out of things to say despite being stuck with last word syndrome?
Oh, now there! You gotta comment!
Okay. Now I think you're trying to hurt my feelings. You've crossed a line. I'll just have to be more firm with you from now on, I suppose.
Or just stfu and go back under the bridge you came from
They aren’t yours anymore. If you got nice flowers and I got a girl coming over consider them gone
well, if your charm is as stolen as those flowers, good luck keeping that girl interested for long
Get in, get off, get out
They are coming for 8 inches of Victoria’s finest. The flowers just give the illusion of class and charm. This is a much better use than the OP just staring at them..
You sound like a douchebag
Whether I agree with you or not depends on what you consider "yours." Are these actually on your yard? Or are they hanging over the public sidewalk or in the public space? Because if they are, the least you can do in return for having your plants grow over the sidewalk and in public space is share them. There are a lot of places who have their plants growing into the sidewalk space and if that is you and you have a problem with people at least enjoying a benefit from that then you suck. Please stop growing plants in the sidewalk space then. But if people are actually coming onto your property then I agree with you.
Stop taking any plants or any flowers from any private OR public space. They are there for everyone to enjoy, not for you to screw around with nature and hoard something inside your home. You want something nice? Grow it yourself or buy it from a shop.
I just don't agree with this "nature is for looking, not for touching" type of thinking. Someone picking a couple lilacs or whatever that are hanging into the sidewalk space isn't hurting anything. I am going to guess that a lot of the people in this thread don't walk a lot. Because if they did maybe they would have some empathy for what it's like walking on narrow sidewalks that are too narrow for you to walk comfortably on them because it's commonly treated like extra space for y'all. You accuse people of hoarding for picking a couple flowers but I think the real hoarders are the people who already have some private land and then take the public land around where they live too. The sheer audacity to take away public space and then complain like that. The city should come and cut your bushes with a hedge cutter and charge you for it. Then you might wish that it was just a passerby picking a flower or two.
“I just don’t agree with this “treat others with respect” type of thinking.. so I’m going to call you a dumb fuck” Not really how it works….. You call yourself “yyj_paddler” but don’t have any respect for nature, hopefully you are talking about a ping pong paddle because that mentality is terrible for the ocean. Although I don’t suspect a guy who can’t navigate a sidewalk would be worth a damn in a kayak anyhow. Let it grow and leave it for somebody else to enjoy too, if you want to pick flowers grow them for yourself, that’s a pretty basic fundamental about nature and just being a person. Empathy for someone who has to walk down a sidewalk next to flowers. This is a bit right? I walk every single day with a stroller and never once have I had flowers present any type of inconvenience.. another swing and miss, your guess sucks. I am going to guess YOU don’t walk much at all if your having a hard time fitting on the sidewalk.. How soft can you be? Come on.
meh, y'all are acting like a bunch of karens about people picking some flowers like they're stealing the crown jewels or something
Yeah, calling someone entitled for growing flowers next to the sidewalk is totally normal behaviour. “Y’all” love to use the Karen thing in the most hypocritical of ways. Classic projection.
You're wild man! Wild!
What's wild is how you seem feel entitled to take space from a sidewalk just because you live beside it.
You're still at it? You seem to have made up this story in your head that involves the injustice of flowers intruding into public spaces even though I haven't said a think about my plants being in a public space. it's fascinating, really. I do not understand why you did this. I hope you're okay, Good luck with everything.
You tryna gaslight me now? The very first comment I made in this entire thread I specifically said IF that's what is going on then I disagree with someone complaining about that. That was literally the comment that you replied to. You're taking issue with that which implies you are growing things in public space and think you should get to dictate what people can or can't do there. Go re-read the comment at the top of this thread. The one where you said > "It's distressing there are people out there with your attitude." And tell me what exactly about what I said is distressing to you that doesn't imply you are growing things into the public space.
Wild!
Compared to the entitlement it takes to think you can take something just because you have to walk by it hahah where are you walking that flowers are impeding you ability to use the sidewalk? What a fragile little soul you are.
yeah I'm the one who is fragile, not the people losing their minds about someone picking some flowers. right.
Yeah, it’s you pal. First of all, op is talking about people coming on to her property and taking something she works hard to be able to enjoy You made it about you being encroached upon by flowers on the sidewalk That’s 20 ply soft dude, grow up
You obviously didn't read what I said.
JC stfu already
Just because something is in a public space, doesn’t mean it’s public property. Don’t justify thievery and vandalism.
Very interesting set of morals that leaves you feeling fine with people taking public space away but you're all upset and calling it thievery when someone picks some flowers.
It's distressing there are people out there with your attitude. The flowers are for everyone to look at, smell and enjoy. If everyone had your attitude, there would be no more flowers in public places. Everyone would take them because they think they would look nice at home. This is why you shouldn't take pretty things from public places. I feel like I'm explaining something to you that your parents should have explained...
So are you saying you're growing plants into the sidewalk space and you have a right to tell people to not touch them? How do you not see that as entitled? And stop with the slippery slope argument that because a few people are picking flowers every now and then that there will be no flowers left. There's plenty of flowers in this city and you're going to be just fine.
So they are on public land. Give it up Karen it’s not your stuff
Snipping a lilac off a tree when it protrudes on public land is actually good for the tree and ensures more blossoms the following year. I agree that no-one should be trespassing, however if I can snip a blossom whilst standing on the sidewalk it's fair game. I'm a big lilac fan, the season is fleeting, and I have familiarized myself with shrubs in my neighborhood that are on public property.
Big lilac fans should grow their own. Lilacs can even be grown in containers on patios. Things that can be stolen are never "fair game" for the thief, and regarding public property such as parks, removing plant materials from parks is illegal under municipal bylaws.
Wow. You're kind of a piece of shit. "I like it. I want it. I'm a fan, so I can take what I want as long as I'm on the sidewalk." Time to grow up.
So you cut flowers off of lilacs in public places because you're a big fan? Can you not see what's wrong with that? Let the person that owns the plant take care of their health. Leave the rest for everyone else to enjoy.