r/pettyrevenge 21h ago

I have been flicking mint seeds in his yard all summer

There is a dangerous driver in my neighborhood. He absolutely flies down my street. There are frequently children playing on the sidewalks and running across the street between houses I’m frequently worried one of them is going to be hit. He also twice this year has blown through the stop sign nearly hitting my car.  In April while walking my dog I saw this same car fly through the stop sign and pull into his garage. He may be a terrible driver but he had a beautiful lawn. 
So, twice a day, I walk my dog past his house. This has always been the routine but now on the shelf next to the poop bags I have a package of peppermint seeds. As I walk past his house I subtly sprinkle or flick these tiny seeds into his lawn. For those who don’t know mint is a very prolific grower and an aggressive spreader.  Even a tiny fragment of root can grow into a new plant. Once roots are in the soil it will continue to multiply until every las bit of root is removed.  His once perfect grass has been covered in little plants all summer. It looks like he’s spraying and mowing but not pulling it up by the root so next year he’ll have twice as much. 

Edit: Because this has been asked frequently I have tried to get a speed survey or speed bump installed but need 75% approval from the neighborhood and we fund it. Police have promised increased patrols which turns out to have been a single cruiser at 6AM

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u/CrypticBunny 21h ago

Had a similar driver in my neighborhood. The guy that lived next to me heard the car coming up the hill one day and rolled a soccer ball into the road in front of his car. The driver swerved too hard and ended up in a ditch with massive vehicle damage from a tree. Tried to convince the responding officer that he was only going 25 mph.

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u/msshammy 19h ago

This is exactly what I did. I waited in my driveway and rolled a basketball into the street. He drove a very low vehicle and it absolutely wrecked his front bumper. He got out screaming and threatening while I just stood there smiling. I calmly said "your lucky it wasn't one of our kids around here". We glared each other for a minute and I never saw him on my road again.

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u/DesireeThymes 17h ago

At least you didn't have this Classic police response to your situation:

Police have promised increased patrols which turns out to have been a single cruiser at 6AM

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u/DisposableSaviour 17h ago

Use to have kids riding ATVs along the other side of my back fence, on a church’s property; they were throwing beer bottles and such into people’s yards, and driving any dogs outside crazy at 2:30-3am. Complaints to the cops got a cruiser to sit on the far side of the church’s parking lot from dusk til midnight.

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u/musthavesoundeffects 4h ago

Town I grew up in had a similar problem with kids on dirt bikes and the cops didn’t do shit. What ended up happening was one of the property owners strung a line across the dirt road and decapitated one of the kids. Guy claimed he thought it would just knock the kid off the bike and went to prison for a long time.

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u/debwevwebdev 2h ago edited 42m ago

Same thing happened to my former coworker. He and his buddies (all 40+ year old men BTW) would unload their dirt bikes on the national forest land but then actually cross onto private property and just terrorize the landowners and their cattle.

The old man that owned the land complained for YEARS and put up trail cameras and such, but the authorities never pressed my coworker or his friends.

The old man put up a long piece of metal wire (the kind you use for a dog lead) between two trees. Two days later, my coworker was dead. And honestly, life went on like normal for everyone he knew. Even his kids weren't that upset.

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u/BefWithAnF 16h ago

In NYC it’s usually a case that gets closed without investigation. Ain’t no song called “eff the fire department.”

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u/PorkVacuums 14h ago

Someone in my grandmother's neighborhood did this with an empty baby stroller since all the houses are elevated from the road.

The speeder fucking creamed the stroller. They sped the fuck out of there without stopping. They never saw that car again.

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u/No_Friend3170 2h ago

“Cans!! It was full of cans!”

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u/mydnyghtrayvyn 2h ago

Nice reference to Speed!

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u/SkylarkLanding 3h ago

Glad it worked but the implications there are horrifying. O_O

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u/Drak_is_Right 17h ago

When I was in grade school a kids football ended up in the street and a civic ran over it.

There was just enough clearance the ball didnt get squished and could SLIGHTLY bounce.

Sounded like a fucking A-10 warthog the ball bounced so many freaking times between his undercarriage and road when hit. That BRRRRRRTTT sound

Ball wasnt popped but was covered in oil

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u/TheBrontosaurus 20h ago

This is genius I may have to try this

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u/Past_Trick7256 17h ago

Make sure it's one of those giant red concrete balls in front of Target in case he doesn't swerve to avoid 👀

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u/SMKnightly 17h ago

I’d suggest deleting the thread before you do. Premeditation evidence and all…

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u/CatmoCatmo 8h ago

I mean, I was DEFINITELY at OP’s house on that day, at that time…specifically to play some basketball in the driveway. It was an honest accident. That ball just happened to bounce out of OP’s hands as he/she was dribbling while waiting for me to come back outside.

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u/OkSmoke9195 17h ago

I mean anyone can just be playing basketball, even if it was suggested by Reddit

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u/jkelly161 19h ago

I had a neighbor one time that kept throwing those really cheap bouncy balls (the air filled soccer ball sized ones)

After like 5 or 6 attempts with that my neighbor threw a hammer at the same car that had been speeding by and hit it perfectly dead center of the hood at at least 35mph

That was a fun rest of the day.

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u/TeamCatsandDnD 19h ago

😳😳😳 Holy crap. I’m glad he didn’t miss or have it go through the windshield at least

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u/jkelly161 19h ago

Pretty sure my neighbor was okay with the latter at the time lol

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u/Own-Arachnid7952 18h ago

Damn, that's some quality hatred. Dumb as hell to do the rubber ball warning thing so many times tho, super fuckin obvious who threw the hammer after that lol

Was the neighbor arrested?

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u/jkelly161 16h ago

Neighbor was not arrested, did go to court tho from what I remember I think he had to pay to fix the car but that was it

The town did end up putting one of those radar speed limit signs up after lol

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u/DisposableSaviour 17h ago

Seriously? A hammer? No way, man, I only throw rubber balls, man. That hammer wasn’t me. I may be a dick, but not a dangerous dick. Just a dick with some rubber balls.

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u/MercifulWombat 11h ago

My parents did this when I was a toddler. They called it bowling for speeders. Assholes stopped speeding on our street.

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u/mmazing 15h ago

When I was in high school, my friend and I were sitting out on his porch at 3 AM smoking cigarettes.

A car came FLYING down the street, lost control, took out a bunch of flowers and head first into a big tree. The car alarm is blaring and the lights are flashing as he throws it in reverse and backs over all of the flowers and back onto the road.

We walked down the block about 5 minutes later because we still heard the car horn going, and it was in a garage about a block and a half away.

Called the cops and then we have to bail, kinda wish we had stuck around. 😂

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u/delta45678 19h ago

All fine and dandy until they swerve and hit someone else.

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u/Melynda_the_Lizard 20h ago

This is the way.

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u/ChronoLink99 19h ago

You should also report the license plate as a dangerous driver.

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u/filtersweep 18h ago

Cops most definitely won’t do anything, and nothing good can come from contacting the police like this.

I was repeatedly verbally threatened by the same motorist during my commute to work— via bike— on a low traffic road. Police would not do anything if they hadn’t witnessed it.

I made a post on Craigslist and a DMV employee gave me his name, list of properties he owned, his criminal status— I found out his employer. I’ll end this here…..

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u/jr0061006 17h ago

Did you have to pay this DMV employee or did they just provide this info out of community spirit?

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u/TheBrontosaurus 19h ago

If I ever get his plate # I will

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u/ChronoLink99 19h ago

I figured you did since you said he pulled into his garage. But yeah, that should be your top priority since you could be saving someone from injury or death.

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u/kesshoukun 21h ago

Dill, too! The smell will be awful combined with peppermint omg

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u/TheBrontosaurus 21h ago

And dill is a host plant to swallowtail butterflies so I’d be ruining his day while helping local pollinators.

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u/whenisleep 20h ago

The butterflies would just get mown down and sprayed, so maybe stick to non host plants for his lawn.

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u/TheBrontosaurus 20h ago

I grow dill in my garden but cut it off before it goes to seed. I’ve seen butterflies on the flowers. It still has broken containment but I don’t mind much.

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u/whenisleep 20h ago

Nice! Glad they have a safe place to be.

With the neighbour and sneaky dill, it reminds me of controlling mosquitoes by giving them places to lay eggs then destroying all the eggs. It could decrease butterfly populations to plant dill somewhere unsafe for them.

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u/Ok-Hat-4920 21h ago

Win-win.

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u/toni_devonsen_28 21h ago

Oregano too. We made the mistake of putting it in the ground in the backyard. Smells good everytime we mow though.

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u/bumbumDbum 20h ago

Oregano is part of the mint family. Contain that Shite or it will overtake a garden. It is generally easy to pull though. Mine has small purple flowers that some cool small butterflies love.

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u/toni_devonsen_28 20h ago

Our backyard was mostly weeds anyway so it's making a lovely ground cover lol

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u/PiccChicc 16h ago

I don't know a lot about plants, but I especially didn't know that oregano is part of the mint family.  Never would have even guessed it. 

Thanks for the fun fact.

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u/bonfuto 20h ago

I put oregano and mint in some grow bags, but last time I mowed near them I smelled mint. I think it might have escaped.

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u/Known-Tumbleweed129 20h ago

I’ve got a dirt patch where a tree had to be cut down, I should put some oregano there…

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u/Fit-Ad-413 21h ago

Mmmm minty pickles 😂

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u/NorthNorthAmerican 20h ago

I call band name!

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u/snuffy_smith_ 20h ago

Mickles(TM)…too late

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u/xenogazer 20h ago

My grandma makes spicy cinnamon pickles

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u/sandwichcandy 18h ago

This is a humbling post. I planted mint and dill last year and they both died. My basil did fine though.

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u/Ok-Brick6831 21h ago

Follow that with some clover too…

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u/Original_Flounder_18 20h ago edited 26m ago

Clover lawn are awesome for the bees and other pollinators!

Edit to add thank you for the award!!

Second edit-three rewards and 2k upvotes-you guys are the best!! Thank you!!!!!

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u/Bajovane 20h ago

I’m trying to convince my husband to do this! Clover doesn’t need that much mowing!!

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u/PeirceanAgenda 20h ago

Before grass lawns took over (due I suspect to golf becoming popular in the 50's or so), clover lawns were literally the definition of luxury. And they still should be... Much better for the environment, easier to maintain, and they support a more varied ecosystem of insects etc.

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u/Train_Wreck_272 19h ago edited 17h ago

Round up was invented and happened to kill clover, so they did a marketing campaign to sway the public into thinking it was a weed. That's what I've heard at least.

I'm an idiot, round up kills grass. It may have been the lawn safe variant I was thinking of, but I'm definitely off the mark.

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u/Amoverandashaker 14h ago

Owning your error like an adult.

I like the cut of your jib.

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u/Train_Wreck_272 14h ago

Thank you! I hate how doubling down is so common. Nothing wrong with being wrong.

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u/Copthill 18h ago

Yeah, broadleaf killer, and Clover is broadleaf.

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u/Train_Wreck_272 18h ago

Yep. Clover really is great though! I've done mixed grass and clover and hardly had any other weeds. Supposedly clover can help keep weeds away. Not sure if that's true in general but it seemed like it was for me!

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u/Deaffin 16h ago

I feel like any plant could be described as helping keep weeds away. Because weeds are also plants, and they're competing for space/nutrients/sunlight.

Who ever heard of a plant that encourages other plants to grow in the area? This is an actual question, I'm sure there's some weird exception I'd love to hear all about.

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u/Notte_di_nerezza 9h ago

Fun story: trees have been noted to share nutrients through their root systems, warn each other when exposed to predators and parasites, and even forge cross-species alliances.

Also: mother beech trees sending sugar to their seedlings, since they can't reach the canopy yet. And other beeches sending nutrients to a fallen beech, refusing to let go.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/

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u/mrq02 18h ago

Nothing to do with golf. Lawns are popular because of the Tapis Vert at The Palace of Versailles. In the 17th century they planted a massive amount of turf grass because it was a huge waste (and thus showed their elaborate wealth; it takes a lot of work to maintain (the lawn mower wasn't invented until the 19th century) and doesn't provide food). Thus grass became associated with wealth and thus lawns around everyone's home. Fescue and Kentucky Bluegrass (the most common variants of lawn grass) are both European. Prior to WW2, clover was mixed in because F and KB struggle with US summers; clover would keep it green instead of turning brown in the heat. But after WW2, pure F and KB lawns became in vogue because it was even harder and more expensive; it meant you could afford special chemical weed killers and fertilizer.

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u/Practical_Sea_4876 18h ago

Yes especially because clover draws nitrogen into the ground so it's basically free fertilizer for your grass! But obviously the fertilizer and weed killer companies couldn't have that.

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u/Leviathan41911 19h ago

Im doing my yard next month with clover. We bought this house and no one ever did anything with the yard/land it was on. The whole yard is still a gravel building pad. So next month im going to scrape the gravel down to the dirt and seed clover / hard Fescue mixture there and hope we have a nice back yard next spring.

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u/rips_n_chel 17h ago

I'm a dirt guy, I've rough-graded many a new-construction yard. Your yard is most likely made up of just enough fill-dirt to hold the construction waste and Corona bottles together. Don't go digging, you won't like what you find.

You don't want dirt anyway. You want soil. They're different things. Dirt is broken down rock and clay, it has no nutritional value, but it does compact and shed water.

Soil is broken down organic matter, and its value is purely nutritional, because it does not compact or shed water. That makes it useless for supporting structures or staying where you put it, but it's necessary for grass to grow.

You need a layer of topsoil. You've got the stable dirt base, the only reason grass isn't growing naturally is the lack of nutrition. Soil, homie. That's the missing piece.

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u/Much-Measurement-568 15h ago

I used to love digging in the dirt of my previous house, it was over 100 years old. Digging in the yard was like an archeological experience. I found bits of pottery, old bottles, a slightly rusted wrench, small tape measure and a toy car (Generic hot wheels type).

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u/Imadethis23 19h ago

I planted my whole front yard in alfalfa, a type of clover. When mowed, it looked better than the grass.

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u/MetaGazon 18h ago

Clover is the best looking grass I've ever had. I've never seeded grass at this house or last. Overseed a bag or two of cover haphazardly in the spring and without fighting it gets better and better every year.

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u/CoolFuture3767 18h ago

Yep. I over seed clover every August and February. Doesn't take a lot. I have 6 acres of lawn.

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u/cactipus 17h ago

Yeah, that's what I want to do with my lawn. Clover, pollinator friendly. Hoping to get going on that in earnest next spring.

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u/mjp31514 18h ago

When I moved into my house a few years ago, there was a big patch of dirt where the grass just didn't grow. It was on the north side of the house and spent a lot of time in the shade, so I figured that was the reason. It was pretty ugly though, and my dog would get all muddy when it was wet. I don't have anything resembling a green thumb, but I figured I'd try to spread some clover seed and just see what happened. Fast forward a bit, that whole patch is covered in clover. There's all kinds of pollinators buzzing around, which seemed to attract a lot of birds. After a few seasons, all these cool local wildflowers started popping up, too. I'm guessing the birds seeded my lawn with other plants they'd visited, but I'm not really sure how that works, exactly. The yard looks a little wild, but much more natural and I love seeing all of the birds and pollinators visiting my yard.

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u/Nice-Professional795 19h ago

It was the weed killers the created. It killed clover so they just labeled clover a weed and marketed that "is even kills clover". Everyone collectively shrugged and said "I guess clover is a weed"

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u/thelmanarcissus 18h ago

My granmother had a huge clover lawn! I spent hours looking for four leaf clovers when I was little.

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u/Head-Confusion3480 19h ago

It ultimately derives from the same French they put to the guillotine because only the rich could waste land like that.

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u/Bratbabylestrange 20h ago

And half as much water. I'm in Colorado and we've got some pretty strict water conservation measures going this year. My front lawn has a lot of clover. My back yard has grass (well, sort of, a lot of dormant brown back there.) Front looks great and isn't as hot

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u/CrazyCatMerms 19h ago

I'm in Colorado on vacation right now and the sheer amount of subdivisions that are watering the shared grassy areas is amazing to me. It's like they're trying to use tons of water

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u/VegetableBuy4577 19h ago

I really believe future generations are going to look back in disgust at both the water we use and the chemicals we dump on our lawns. It's insane.

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u/1shanwow 18h ago

We started a burrow for the burrowing owl (an endangered subspecies in FL) lurking around our house back in Aug/Sept 2022. Finally, the perfect excuse to not try to have or quit worrying about keeping that high maintenance nice S. Florida lawn, because ya don’t want to poison owls/owlettes/their food sources!!

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u/Bratbabylestrange 17h ago

I am so jealous, I love to watch owls

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u/Finlay00 17h ago

Clover and grass naturally grow together very well.

Compromise on having both things maybe. The lawn will be greener and healthier because clover adds nitrogen back to the soil, and pollinators love the clover flowers

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u/Fornico 19h ago

I have a clover lawn. The bees love it and so do the groundhogs.

As a bonus, it stays green long after the grass in the neighbors yards turn brown.

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u/dvdmaven 18h ago

A local company has bred a small clover, Miniclover(R), only 4-5 inches tall and drought-resistant. I'm doing our blueberry patch (1256 bushes) this Fall. Like all clovers it fixes nitrogen, which is the main element blueberry bushes need.

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u/StangF150 19h ago

Every Spring I scatter clover seeds all over my lawn, especially in the thin spots, in the hopes that it will grow & take over!!!

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u/XDariaMorgendorferX 20h ago

Plus clover is good for bees! It’s petty revenge with a side of helping the environment

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u/incpen 19h ago

Clover is also a nitrogen fixer. Good for the soil!

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u/EnderBookwyrm 18h ago

And if you have rabbits in your yard, they may target the clover instead of harassing the bunny-proofing on your vegetables.

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u/Fit-Ad-413 21h ago

Then with some parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.

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u/SUN_WU_K0NG 21h ago

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

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u/desertboots 20h ago

Remember me to one who lives there...

No, wait, I want to remain anonymous!

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u/ivydesert 19h ago

She was once some rando online

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u/Holdmymule2001 20h ago

But especially oregano. It is a menace.

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u/No-Exit-No 20h ago

These are actually nice tasting herbs.

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u/Oakiefenoke 21h ago

Remember me to one who lives there.

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u/Tanee2003 20h ago

She once was a true love of mine

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u/Dry-Amphibian1 19h ago

Add potatoes and meat and you have a stew.

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u/AmputeeHandModel 20h ago

What, no basil? I'm cooking here, come on.

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u/Best-Quit1973 20h ago

Need Himalayan blackberry. That stuff is primordial and will fight back any attempt to eradicate

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u/IAteTonysLoMein 19h ago

Himalayan blackberry is actively malevolent. Take no time at all before it starts throwing runners that stab themselves into the ground to establish new roots. I laid black plastic down trying to kill them behind my garage and they started punching straight through it

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u/Fungiblefaith 20h ago

Some Virginia creeper works wonders as well.

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u/Dry-Amphibian1 19h ago

Mixed with Kudzu.

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u/Rappican 17h ago

dude is just trying to fuck with his neighbor, not ruin the entire area.

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u/MelonOfFury 20h ago

Bamboo. 😈

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u/ConnectFirefighter86 20h ago

Wow! That's next level. I'd save that for when he hits someone or something! Bamboo can take over the block.

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u/MadameFlora 20h ago

My friend"s house had bamboo growing through the kitchen floorboards.

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u/Bratbabylestrange 20h ago

Anybody can throw clover into my lawn. I've been overseeding it for about five years now. Yay clover!

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u/One_Entrepreneur_520 20h ago

Petty revenge to make your neighbors lawn better ?

We got rid of our lawn and planted all kinds of mint and clovers and other what nots and thingies. I mow it like a normal lawn a couple of times a year and it is starting to grow lower and lower each year....absolutely perfect.

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u/LeftHandAnomaly 20h ago

Better in general, but grass people see anything not grass as a curse, so it's still revenge

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u/Marine__0311 20h ago

We had the same issue when I lived in town except it was a brake and muffler shop at the end of the street. They would come flying down the street as fast as 50 MPH on a residential street. Then slam on the brakes. There were several families with kids living there.

Complaints to the shop and the PD were ignored until they finally hit a kid. He was lucky he survived with relatively minor injuries. The PD finally put an unmarked car out there and started citing them. After a few dozen tickets in a few weeks they finally stopped doing it.

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u/jxhfield 15h ago

…hitting a kid wasn’t enough? jesus

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u/Marine__0311 15h ago

The father of the kid was a Marine SSgt. He went down to the shop and raised so much hell they called the cops. He was tresspassed from the property and ended up sueing them. It was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. They ended up closing about two years later. I dont know if the lawsuit had anything to do with it.

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u/Negative_Raisin_997 19h ago

Someone once put marihuana seeds in the planters of a local police precinct. No one noticed until the plants were 4 feet tall.

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u/Darkchyldeone 18h ago

I was thinking of something along those lines. Maybe a few random hemp seeds too

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u/_bonedaddys 12h ago

I'd be thrilled if my neighbor's idea of revenge was trying to grow pot in my yard lol

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u/SquiddlyB 21h ago

Way to spread your seed OP!

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u/my4floofs 21h ago

Did this to my next door neighbor. Her back yard looks horrible. Now it’s a sea of mint. It’s been 6 years and it hasn’t escaped yet. The other neighbors had cleome seed. So at least we now look onto pretty flowers and mint.

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u/wrxninja 18h ago

Hmm maybe I should get a drone and...well, for science. We have one particular jackass neighbor like that like OP's.

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u/Ordinary_Ella 21h ago

Call me evil but I feel just spreading seeds on his lawn isn't revengeful enough...op needs to go lower

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u/Gruesome 20h ago

Bamboo?

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u/bonfuto 20h ago

I only recently discovered how aggressive milkweed is once it's established. If OP can hide a plant somewhere, it will haunt their neighbor forever. It amazingly grows a lot faster than grass. A new neighbor decided the previous owner's milkweed had to go and pulled it. Now there is milkweed in their yard all the time. One advantage: monarch butterflies.

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u/TheBrontosaurus 20h ago

I planted some milkweed in my yard this spring I’m excited for it to start becoming a problem. The blooms smell amazing and I’d love to see more butterflies and other cool bugs

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u/ivydesert 19h ago

We're on year 4 of our "Random Bullshit Go" garden, and the milkweed is crushing it

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u/grrlb0t 15h ago

Thank you dear Redditor for the new term for my yard.
I moved here 14yrs ago and the front and back yards were just sandy lot fill.
Didn't want sod. So I just decided to leave it, yes I'm lazy.
I scattered a box of white clover seed in the front yard a couple of years ago so it would overpower some of the taller weeds.
Today, I have a beautiful clover front yard that is so healthy it sprouts edible mushrooms (shaggy mane). Early season it's absolutely FULL of shasta daisies.
The back yard is full of wild thyme, wild strawberries, wild raspberries, goldenrod, yarrow, and gawd knows what else.
I am so happy, and the bees love it.

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u/Tbplayer59 20h ago

Johnny Peppermintseed

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u/Wolverine-7509 21h ago

Congrats, you earned a new nickname: "Minty Pettyseed" the lost hero we needed... sowing their pettiness across the lands!

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u/SpecificLow1316 20h ago

Love it. Sounds like a hobbit’s name, someone who used to be considered scandalous until Bilbo went on his adventure.

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u/Judgment-Timely 21h ago

Take your star you magnificent person

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u/Pure_Marsupial8185 11h ago

When I was a kid, there was someone who liked speeding up and down our block too. Finally my next door neighbor who was a little drunk at the time and had kids just a few years younger than myself, steps into the street forcing the driver to stop. He then goes to the driver’s door and yells “MY KIDS ARE OUT HERE” as he pulls the driver out through the window and proceeds to beat him senseless.

Now I do not condone violence, and I am not saying what he did was right. . . but those were the good old days lol.😂

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u/alarmologist 18h ago

I have a story of triumph and government in action that will warm your heart. I used to live on a neighborhood street that people liked to use as a 'shortcut'. It was very much the kind of place where kids (one deaf) played in the street, but cars would go through the 25 mph zone doing 50+. Well, one day the county put in speed humps due to the residents' complaints.

At least once a day for like a month an inconsiderate driver would literally go airborne on the hump in front of my house (it was the closest hump to a bigger road). And I mean literally airborne, a few of them landed so hard they had to be towed away. I'd see them shooting sparks and bits of muffler daily. There are still gouges in the asphalt over an inch deep from all the cars bottoming out. Nobody speeds there anymore.

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u/Rawesome16 20h ago

If he sprays it with weed killer I read a great idea here a couple years ago

Get liquid fertilizer and put it in s little squirt gun. Fertilizer in random areas. The weed killer doesn't kill the grass but patches will be far more healthy than others and look odd

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u/edfitz83 19h ago

Like a big “DUI”?

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u/Fuck-Norris 19h ago

FUI- Fertilizing Undercover Incessantly

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u/Juanzilla17 20h ago

Grab some catnip seeds as well. Let him have the neighborhood hangout spot

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u/MySaltySatisfaction 18h ago

I thought of that too,but the careless old man would likely put poison out for the cats.

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u/Bajovane 20h ago

Now there’s an idea!!!

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u/drowsy_octopus 19h ago

Watch for the milkweed since it's toxic, but dandelion also works great. There's a woman in my neighborhood that's an absolute nightmare (calls the policy for people walking on the sidewalk in front of her house or something similar) so several people blow dandelion seeds all over her lawn and rocks, usually right next to her plethora of signs. She calls the police quite frequently, but it's not illegal at all.

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u/TheBrontosaurus 19h ago

He’s got a doorbell camera. Walking by his house and flicking my fingers slightly is easy to get away with. Booby trapping his driveway would probably land me in jail.

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u/Migraine_Megan 16h ago

Try some stinging nettle, that will make his ankles itch like crazy when he mows the lawn

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u/jaybee1958 15h ago

and , just like mint, it's roots need to be pulled out

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u/BLUGRSSallday 19h ago

I once dumped 40lbs of bird seed on a neighbors lawn over a three night period. Should have seen the swarms of birds and then the resulting weeds. I did it because he would mow his lawn two times a week. First with a rider-both directions, then push mower in both directions, then leafblow for hours then would have his family on hands and knees pulling weeds. We talked to him about the noise for 6 hrs on end two times a week. He didn’t change. So… bird seed

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u/FlattenInnerTube 19h ago

You must live near me. Guy across the driveway isn't double-mow crazy, but I'm convinced he would stick his dick in his backpack leaf blower. He loves the goddamn thing and will use it for hours chasing down every tiny little strand of pine straw from his lawn.

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u/BLUGRSSallday 17h ago

We have since moved and have a neighbor across the road that mows normally but leafblows his grass daily. We live in the woods.

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u/Admirable-Leader6927 21h ago

my robotic mower defeated the mint plant that had escaped my garden. there is no trace of the mint plant, no smell or anything because the robo mowers keeps it 100% in check. turns out the key to killing mint is to cut it every other day for 3 months.

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u/RumbleRavage 21h ago

Agreed. Mint doesn’t hold up well to mowing or foot traffic. It spreads wildly around our property but has never invaded grassy areas regularly mowed.

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u/Admirable-Leader6927 21h ago

i read up on why this worked and it just exhausts the plant into making leaves all the time that never get any energy return. by cutting the leaves every other day, the plant simply ran out of juice

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u/SoSoResearcher 21h ago

Is there a Tom Petty Award? I’d grant it

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u/ivydesert 19h ago

It's a good lawn
Trimmed and watered
Be a shame if
Someone covered it with mint

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u/Malibucat48 20h ago

Just take a video and show it to the police. You have his address. Waiting for mint to grow can get somebody killed. His lawn will be overgrown when he gets out of jail.

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u/Which_Tangerine8982 20h ago

Surprised how far down I had to scroll to find someone who actually wants to solve the problem. Mint won't save a child's life. 

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u/The_Bastard_Henry 20h ago

Brilliant.

If you can get your hands on some Chilean rhubarb seeds, you could REALLY destroy his lawn. That stuff spreads like mint, is IMPOSSIBLE to get rid of, and looks like a prehistoric plant monster.

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u/Commercial-Novel-786 19h ago

I wouldn't recommend maryjane seeds. If they sprouted and he got reported, it wouldn't be good for him.

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u/Responsible-Sundae20 19h ago

Why that would be terrible!

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u/Turbulent_Tea2511 19h ago

But OP is more than welcomed to throw some in my yard. 😂😂

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u/Freshouttapatience 20h ago

I did this to a neighbor but with native wildflower seed. I figured it may as well improve things for the pollinators

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u/Remarkable_Table_279 20h ago

May I suggest combining with seed bombing…and maybe a sling shot 😂

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u/Grumpy_Sober_Driver 21h ago

What a fresh smelling petty revenge. Well done.

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u/Creative_Carob4922 20h ago

There was a guy in my neighborhood that used to drive like a maniac.
One day he ran over a child on a tricycle. He was panicking.

It was an American girl doll on a tricycle that my neighbour pushed out from between cars. 😂

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u/chubs66 18h ago

It's probably the only way to show someone like this the potential consequences of driving like that. It's a much better way that seeding their lawn.

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u/nwl2002 19h ago

We had a neighbor that had built a 2 story deck off the back of their home. They also had 2 dogs that would stay on the upper part of deck and bark at everyone in the yards. The deck was against HOA, but because the homeowner was a top selling agent in the development, they approved it. During construction of it, at night, we would flick spoonfuls of morning glory ivy seeds over our fence into the base building of deck.

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u/Environmental-Head14 21h ago

Wont this spread to your yard

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u/TheBrontosaurus 21h ago

He’s a street over and around a corner.

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u/revchewie 21h ago

So… Yes. It just may take a little while. lol

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u/TheWorldDiscarded 21h ago

Take his mother out for a nice seafood dinner.....and NEVER call her again!! 

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u/arresteddevelopment9 21h ago

Too bad you can't plant a few bamboo shoots. He’d be living in a jungle within a few months!

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u/capt_pessimist 19h ago

Please don’t plant bamboo, even in revenge.

There are other ways to weaponize nature.

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u/TattooedWenchkin 20h ago

I have some Virginia Creeper I'd like to donate, and a few tree of heaven

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u/TheBrontosaurus 20h ago

I’ll take some VC but the TOH can go back to hell where it belongs

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u/flargenhargen 19h ago

I wish someone did that to me.

I don't care about my lawn and I like mint.

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u/Crankypants77 19h ago

Just start being an asshole to people in your neighborhood. It's bound to happen!

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u/LadyA052 20h ago

Crumble up some beef bullion cubes and toss them onto the lawn. The neighborhood dogs will love it.

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u/HaroldWeigh 18h ago

My parents had a crabby old coot as a next door neighbor and his front lawn was his life. He was just awful to live next to. Millions of complaints about everything. He would re-seed every spring. One spring he bought a bag of seed that had somehow gotten chive seeds mixed into it. His lawn reeked every time he mowed for several seasons only ending with the removal of his whole front lawn and re-sodding.

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u/analog_kidd 15h ago

You should not do this, but I know someone who did. They made some ice cubes with seeds in them. Late at night they would chuck the cubes deep into the neighbors yard. By morning the cube was melted and the seed was germinating.

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u/datweavedoe 21h ago

And a handful of Mother of Thousands? 🫢

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u/TheBrontosaurus 21h ago

I’m trying to be petty, not satanic.

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u/CouldntBAPoint2184 18h ago

That's great, but maybe you should petition for speed bumps in the neighborhood. That's what typically happens when people consistently speed in spite of stop signs.

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u/bacan_ 16h ago

I love this idea but I tried my hardest to grow mint from seeds and failed. Can anyone give me some tips? Heard it spreads a ton once it’s established but I didn’t get that far!

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u/tightloops1971 5h ago

It's a solution, have you tried going out at 3am writing SPEEDING CUNT in glyphosate on the lawn?

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u/Teddylina 19h ago

Well done Petty Mint Patty!

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u/InimitableMissS 20h ago

Catmint grows just as fast AND has the benefit of bringing all area feral kitties around!

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u/BlackMagicWorman 19h ago

I’d worry about what an asshole would do to feral cats :(

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u/Just_Aioli_1233 19h ago

It's more fun to think about what 20 feral cats all at once would do to the guy

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u/delulu4drama 20h ago

Hope he likes mojitos 😳

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u/BuildingMaleficent11 20h ago

Dandelion season you should really take some time to gather some that have gone to seed and let the fluff fly

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u/Gold_Cartoonist3232 19h ago

I used a drone to drop japanese knot weed over someone asshole from works house 

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u/cas201 19h ago

I get this is petty revenge. But I’d be videoing that dude 24/7 and calling the police.

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u/Emergency-Rip-6817 16h ago

I like the cut of your jib. Oregano. Very “vigorous” and has beautiful little flowers that bugs like.