Sooo Mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[angmf2233]

The other day I was sitting in on my sunporch and saw a car stop on the other side of the street, so I looked out the front door and saw they did a u, so sat back down, then I heard laughing and went to the front door and looked, car load of kids, saw them throw something in my yard. They drove off, I went down front and those #$%^&* pulled a big sunflower out of the ground, thought it was funny and pitched it on my lawn. All I can say is this best not happen again! So if your brave enough to be on this site and see this, do it again and you may have damage to something of yours. Flat tire! NJ plates! I take my plants seriously,you don't mess with my plants. I may get a pellet gun then what? Try me!

[gardeningmom]

That is just awful! Don't their parents teach them respect for others and their property? I know if one of my kids ever did something like that...! They wouldn't even dare think of doing it!!!

[AlphaDog]

Oh I feel your pain. I recently tilled a hilly spot in my yard to make it a little more even and so it would be a better area to where grass would grow... well, a little kid (12-13 years old, old enough to know better) rides his bike up and down the hill, apparently using it as a ramp to jump.

I saw him the next day and asked him if he'd done it, and he actually admitted to it. I told him that next time he did it I'd have words with his parents and if that didn't work, his bike would come up missing.

His dad told me later that day that he (the dad) thought that was hilarious. I have not seen him NEAR my yard since.

[trishg]

A few years ago we lived in the 'village'. I had a 10X30 Victorian garden that I had brought back from the dead after buying the house it came w/. I put lot of work and numerous other pereniels in to that garden. But it sat 5 feet from the street. One morning I came out to go to work and found a 3 foot hole in the ground where someone had stolen an entire group of Echinachea or Purple cone flower. I paid good money for that ! Someone had actually had the nerve to walk 5 feet onto my property w/ a shovel and dig up my flowers... in the dark of night, (or street lamps) Pretty pathetic... If they had asked, I would have broken it up for them. I was p*&%$ed for days! My husband always says it takes all kinds of people to make up the world. Im sorry for the violation of your home and garden, some people just dont get it. But someday they will! Maybe then it will be too late..... Practice your target shooting!

[Pushin-up-Daisies]

Thats terrible u guys so far never had any problems like those, If I did I 2 would retaliate big time, Don't mess with my kids,my grandkids or my plants.

[gone_tropical]

I have 13 crape myrtles surrounding my yard, and people (are teens people or rather aliens?) break off branches, throw them over the fence or leave them dangling. And no, the branches aren't in their faces, I keep them trimmed above 6ft. Just mean. And of course there are the fruit thieves, whatever they can reach, the take.

[Mandy]

People are really amazing. Instead of enjoying your hard work and admiring the beauty they go out of their way to destroy. With the way guns are being used now they're taking an awful chance. Serve them rt. if they destroy someone else's garden and get a potshot taken at them.

[ok_nurse]

Some people have issues that we can't even imagine. We can be glad we don't share those problems. We have been given the grace to see beauty in the world-imagine if we saw only ridicule or humiliation or were so self focused that we couldn't enter into another person's joy. We may have the broken plants-they can be replaced. Some kids have broken lives in this world. Imagine being the kid with the father who laughed at his son's misdeed to AD. His dad probably doesn't take life seriously when the kid needs help either. I'll get off my soapbox as a foster mom. I'm sorry the kids ruined your sunflower Angie-can I make you feel better by sending you a lil something? LMK friend-I hate seeing good people get so upset. I hope you can forgive the kids. This is a pretty screwed up world these kids are growing up in today.

[lcosden]

Angie, I'm so sorry that happened to you. And trishg, wow, I can't believe someone digged up your yard.. No one's done that in my area maybe cuz I'm still trying to set up my yard but one of my neighbor's dog ran up the stair onto my deck and nibbled on my mara de bois strawberries. Grrr.. I just happen to see it from upstair window. By the time I got down there, the dog was gone. Can't figure out which neighbor lost control of their dog but I figured that I at least get an apology. Nada.. Guess the owner didn't know the damage their dog did to my strawberry plants.. Ate the strawberries I left there to ripen.. **sigh** But forgive and forget right?? Can't stay mad, that'll only drive myself crazy..

[Shellee]

Could be worse lcosden...it could be your own dog!! Thought I had solved my garden digging dog problem, but not yet! I am afraid I am going to have to break down and do the electric fence bit!

[FLYnFLOWER]

People can be so hateful. I have MS and a spinal cord injury and am in a wheelchair now. Ten years ago I did most of the landscaping on our new property. I planted about 25 varieties of hosta in my yard and they have grown and come back so beautifully and were huge! Last spring someone came in the dead of night and dug everyone of them up and stole them . They did not even leave me a tuber . I had rare hosta that are very hard to find. Now I can't get out in my yard to replant. I think that is so hateful. Someone had to have known where they come up every year, because they were barely peeking above the ground when they were dug up.

[bhscarlett]

You know what alot of us can relate to the unusual cruelties and sickness, that others seem to have,, jealous, or evil,, its just outright wrong,,
you have my deepest feelings of sadness, and I still miss frosty pink brug that the neighborhood kids poisened in my big pot near front porch a few years ago, she was my first and only one, and i actually was brought to tears at her death,, yes im a very loving and very caring and sensitive person,, adn it hurt alot,, and never got another Frosty Pink,, and still missing her,, God will pay back all these plant and flower killers,, its something else isnt it, no respect for anyone or anything,, Again I am very sorry,, I felt similiar pain,, just not your pain,, Blessings, and Be encouraged,, Beth

[PlantSwap]

There used to be (maybe still is) a problem with people stealing small Sago Palms in our area (generally speaking - not specifically in my neighborhood).

[bali]

Some one told me the Sago story.. I used to have a friend in Houston, and I had about 3 of them.

Are they still hard to find/
Our Lowes carry them all the time.. They grow too slow here.

[trudy]

not to bring religion into this, but they will get theirs in due time. Revenge is not ours to take. Sorry about all of your troubles with these troubled souls. I'm sure you feel violated. As angry as it makes you two wrongs don't make a right. Hang in there, they can be replaced. Is there something I can send you to make you feel better?