what I woke up to this morning...
What gives kids and neighbors a bad name
front
east side
nothing was broke and they weren't very smart - they used the thick expensive stuff that was relatively easy to pull down. If they were really mean, they'd have gotten the single ply cheapest of the cheap. THAT would've been a mess
Yeah but if you hosed it down it woulda looked like spanish moss ....well kinda
there is a house in a neighborhood near here that has a tree that every halloween gets TP'd
I'm talking for years
the tree is huge now and the kids have been doing it since before my husband was a kid and he's 39
over the years the tp has turned grey and there it all dangles,looking alot like spanish moss
The branches are so high up that its now a challenge to get it up there
I have heard that some adults still go back to try...lol
and I know I said I thought your yard was too perfect(it is gorgeous) ,but NO,I didn't fly there and do it,and NO ,I didn't pay those kids to do it
and I do feel badly that you had to clean it up
Just a thought----are you sure this wasn't "bunny revenge"?????:):)
All kidding aside, I'm sorry this happened--glad nothing was broken or destroyed or it decided to rain after they did it.
gini.
I am sorry they did this to you, it happens all the time here after ball games, and most times the best gardens are hit, it is such a mess for days after.
haha gini! Don't forget - I've got a squirrel connection now ;)
crested / kareoke - this is only the 2nd time it's happened here in 11 years. The first time I was on a ship but come to find out it was the our good "friends" across the street. The adults at that - both research scientists for Abbott. Sheesh! But I've got 4 half rolls of cushy wipe now in the garage!!
I think the adults have more fun doing it than kids.....
they can't get grounded if they're caught
edited to add
what brand was the TP?
was it cottonell brand?
left by peter cotton tails buddys?giggle
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Sorry you had such a mess to clean up.Kids do not have enough chores to do at home anymore. That would use up some of that energy. Ohh --my age is showing. Dixie
lol I'm with you oriole LOL they have too much time on their hands, they need to be in school...all year round LOLOL Just kidding, I think Blaine has a young one that just graduated from school and they usually do that this time of year. I've not ever had to encounter this before but thats not saying I won't but I'm sure it would make me just a tad upset.
Blaine, how did you get up there to get all of it down with your hurt toe?? How is your toe? I hope it's better or getting better.
CC LOL!
8ft. you would be surprised at how many adults are with the kids when they do this, they say if they do it to your yard it is an honour, well I just hope they do not honour me and mess with my Brug's *S*
peter rabbit - oh ya'll are so funny! :)
actually I think it was cottonell or something. I found the bag and put the partials in it. Figure I'll save them for emergencies when I'm dirt and sweaty and uh, feel less than fresh. ;)
For lifting it out of the trees and roses I used a stick trick a guy showed me for hanging Christmas lights. I've got 2 cheap aluminum broom handles put together with about a 3" wood screw through one end. Just reached up and lifted off when it was wrapped around the ends.
Toe(s) (and now calf from walking funny) - go slow and the wonders of vicadin (sp).
The recent graduate said there were some boys from her class playing football in a field yesterday when she came home with her boyfriend. They didn't know where she lived before this and I hear she gave them a dirty look when she went by. Plus she was untouchable through highschool since her and my future DSIL have been joined at the hip for 5 years.
Awwwwwww...:-)
:-( I'm sorry that happened to you Blaine. It would have been great if the culprits had been caught on camera and ended up on the local evening news in the "SHAME ON YOU!" report.
Ok, this might sound really dumb, but didn't the owners ever look outside on halloween night for 39 years to see who was wrapping their tree? I just know I would be a crazy woman with a hose waiting all night to see who did this to me. Once, twice they might get by with it, but 39 years? LOL
I've heard the same thing Polly, I'm told it's an honor, that if they wanted to do something really mean, they would have broken windows/plants/slashed tires. I gotta tell you, when I was in school, we tore up newspapers for DAYS, maybe months, then spread them on the yard of our algebra teacher, Mr. Underwood. Next day, we couldn't wait to go by his house and see the mess. Well, only later did we realize we had underestimated Mr. Underwood, we waited too long and, at the crack of dawn (we learned later, in class!!) he mulched them with his lawnmower and there was nothing to see. It's a shame that kids/others don't spend their time doing something more constructive. OTOH, I know a family whose daughter was broken hearted because her yard had not been 'rolled', so, to mend her heartbreak, her folks rolled it...
bawahahah!
For some reason I never did the TP stuff. Although I would do a little midnight fruit tree raid here and there when delivering Sunday morning papers while it was still dark.
Oh that's awful! I'm glad they didn't break any of your gorgeous brugs. I also know it wasn't my baby bunny. He/She hasn't been shipped yet....lol.
:) Donna
Supposebly, from what I've always heard, it is an honor to get TP'd. Of course it doesn't feel like an honor when you have to clean it up. I know a retired coach who gets hit every single year. He just laughs about it now. All the kids he coached have long since grown up - but the tradition stays in tact.
I'd be glad it was only lavatory paper. We have idiots here that go around writing their names on lawns using Round-up, motor oil, or corrosive lye. They also like walking down the street, late at night, spray-painting the cars. And it's not for any reason other than being spiteful. Things are alot different than when I was growing up.
so glad nothing was damaged.You'll laugh about it later on once it all gets cleaned up especilly if you happen to pass another house it has been done to and know what fun the people are going to have cleaning it all up.
surprising (to me anyway) I wasn't really ticked. Totally out of character I guess. Not pleased but it probably took less time to take down than it did to throw up. Boneheads!!
an honor? Ok... I'll take it as a compliment.
Donna I'm getting a DNA test on the next bunnie I bag
and remind me not to move to CA. I'd be on the 9o'clock news. Nothing lethal, but I'm thinking a paint-ball gun from the top shelf. They leave a mark in more ways than one. ;)
i commend you, blaine. i would have been so mad.
Blaine, just be thankful you don't have 4 girls like we do. When our girls were teenagers, we got tp'd nearly every year. At that time we lived on 11 acres, with our house 1,000 ft. off the road. Needless to say, they had lots of trees to tp. The girls thought it was funny, but DH sure didn't. He had enough to do just keeping the acreage shredded without cleaning up paper messes. LOL At least they didn't cause any damage. Then starting taking baseball bats to all the mailboxes out on the road. Now that was destructive and costly.
TP'ing was in here, but the latest is taking plastic forks and jamming them in the ground with the fork part sticking up. Oh, that roundup in the lawn is the worse!!!
Oh now you're saying you can tell the difference between a Canadian Bunny and a US Bunny....lol.
;) Donna
As some have said it's a time honored tradition
and the its an honor to the people who own the tree
it could have been MUCH worse
They could have used a baseball bat
there were vandals who went down the roads around here and beat all the mailboxes
Some vandals just the other nite,north of here,stole a SUV and went on a raming rampage
they hit campers and knocked them off their supports,hit 3 different cars and pushed them thru closed garage doors(that woulda woke me up),numerous other things
tp is bunny stuff....opps I mean baby stuff.......
Donna - I would venture 2 methods but would probably get myself in trouble.
minniegrannie - Guess what ? I had four girls and 1 boy. I've been wearing dark shades and sharpening machete's and stuff in front of the garage for years. Of course desirable friends were afraid to come over as well until they met me. Oh Lord... please let me make it through this last one! Graduation 2008 is going to be a huge party... for ME! It's the last.
sarv - I'm wondering if I'm getting paid back for idle threats. I've joked about doing driveby's with a water bazooka filled with roundup or writing something or making waterballons with RU many times. Wouldn't do it but I've always thought that would be one of the ultimate suburban terrorist attacks.
8ft...so sorry you got the TP treatment, but with all your kids, it seems like you are lucky it's not the first time....and after what you just mentioned above, it looks like the kids were giving you a (joking) response!
With our kids, we have had all kinds of yard 'treatments'... , some to flatter us, some to send a negative message....it took us a long time to get the smashed eggs off the house and cars...now that was not pretty and was something to moan about... ;-)
Happy gardening... t.
Sorry about the TP job - looked like it would be a bit depressing to see before you even had a cup of coffee. Glad it came down easily. I do believe it is some kind of strange "honor" because it only happens to nice people.
Twice we've had kids gun their motors as they drove across our front lawn (no sidewalks here) in the middle of the night. The ruts they left were 9" deep and about 200' across and it took DH 9 wheelbarrows of soil to fill them, then seed it, etc. The neighbors were horrified. The kids did it to two other properties in our area. The worst part was it was DH's birthday that he had to spend repairing it. That is not an honor.
T - an egg job would really send me over the edge. I've been contemplating video cameras for a couple of years now but the ones I've seen neighbors put up are almost useless since most vandalism happens at night and those cameras with kits in Sam's don't pick much other than a little grainy motion.
pirl - I started hauling all the field stone home for exactly that reason. Well, it wasn't cars but the stupid snowmobilers in winter. When we moved in, we were the only house for several blocks as this was a new subdivision. They thought the yard was still part of the field.... Fine - here's a few speed bumps for you. :) As new houses were built I kept going around Saturday mornings rockhounding and it became another habit.
Hey, Blaine I have 4 girls and a boy as well. He's the youngest and the tp'ing stopped after the girls graduated. Now we live in town right inside the security gate of our subdivision. Someone is always unscrewing the sprinkler heads at the end of our driveway and then when the sprinkler system comes on it is like Old Faithful going off.
with all due respect and sympathy..... bawhahahahaha...
I had never even heard of the TP thing until we moved here. It was almost the only thing I noticed my first few days while house hunting. Now it is rare, haven't seen any since heck was a pup.
When we moved here, all the mailboxs were mangled by baseball bats, so I bought a rubber one with a rubber post. A couple of days later I found it down but with a bonus. A stuck pickup truck in the ditch. They had run over the box repeatedly until they literally tore it up. After the cops tracked down the pickup owner the box bashing stopped for a couple of years. The next box I installed was heavy steel mounted on a 12 inch diameter pole, in the ground 4 feet. No problem since. Now they just take street signs, especially Stop signs. I guess getting someone killed is their game plan.
Some one just went through last week pushing down stop signs. It's the parents I'd like to get my hands on for letting the kids be out after dark and able to pull these stunts.
We all knew who the dude was doing stop signs. Word was passed to the parents, as if no one knew who it was, that a group of citizens were hiding in the bushes with guns, because who knows what they will do next. Not a single problem since. To me, the parents knew or suspected their kids were involved.
All is peaceful for the moment.
we got hit by taggers again. one panel of our fence gets graffiti at least once a year. it so cheapens the neighborhood.
i think i'll plant some deliquent-teenager-eating-plants there.
and i did say i'll paint today. i didn't expect the fence. argh!
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It looks like Spanish Moss? To me it looks like that hated, dreaded, invasive, creeper 'Northern Charminesis X Angel Soft'. And I hear hidding your yard of it can be totally Wipe you out. Not even the best of chemicals can stop this once started. All you can do is grin, and Bare It!!! Though I also hear that certain bears love the stuff.
That should have been "Ridding" your yare of it.
And again the fingers didn't work....Ridding your yard...I'll stop now.
Sorry