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By Waterer - 30/08/2015 17:46 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I watered a dying communal plant. I was fined $250 for littering. FML

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By Anonymous - 24/02/2023 12:00

Today, I tried to help my community by cleaning up a patch of waste ground covered in litter. Instead of gratitude, I was reported to the cops and issued with fines for noise complaints, trespassing, causing a nuisance, littering, harming wildlife, and about 15 other offences. Screw this community. FML

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By fml - 25/04/2009 01:55 - United States

Today, I was walking through town when I saw a plastic bag on the ground. Trying to be a good citizen, I picked it up, intending on throwing it in the trash. When I looked up, there wasn't a trash can for another hundred feet. So I put it back down. Now I've got a $200 fine to pay for littering. FML

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By Anonymous - 04/04/2022 04:00

Today, I visited my dad's grave to give it a clean, since moss and shit were starting to grow on the gravestone. Apparently this counts as vandalism, according to the groundskeeper, because soap and water can damage the stone and make it crumble faster. Yes, the city cops sent me a fine. FML

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By Emyka - 21/09/2016 10:51 - Austria

Today, at my job of 2 months, I'd taken it upon myself to water the plants around the office every day since they all looked a little sad. My boss then asked why so many of the fake plants were getting mouldy. My co-workers had watched me water plastic plants for 2 months and nobody bothered to tell me. FML

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By Anonymous - 18/06/2022 04:00 - Canada - Lachine

Today, I left outside a bowl of fine herbs I had painstakingly grown from seeds, so they could get some sun. What did they get instead? My upstairs neighbor's filthy soapy water from washing her balcony. Three quarters of the seedlings are now dead. FML

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By Wheresthebeefz - 01/02/2011 02:46 - United States

Today, I tried to save a dying bird I found on the sidewalk. I got a parking ticket for $114 in front of the animal hospital. I later found out the bird died. FML

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By Sam - 26/09/2011 11:46 - Australia

Today, in a desperate attempt to get my business "out there", I dropped a few of my cards on a station floor. I got a call, even a quote. A $500 fine from the transit for public littering. FML

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By Anonymous - 17/02/2024 06:00 - United States

Today, it's been a week since I bought a "self-watering" plant to make my life easier. Turns out the self-watering feature means the plant waters itself by leaking all over the floor when it's overfilled. Now my apartment is a mini wetland, and my carpet is fucked. FML

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By Username - 18/02/2011 05:19

Today, I came home to a lease violation and a $220 fine after a routine pest control visit. The violation: my single beta fish in a small bowl. FML

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By Rainman - 14/06/2009 20:39 - United States

Today, I had to water my entire garden. After an exhausting hour of watering hundreds of plants, I turned off the hose and started to feel good about the grueling job. That is, until it started pouring rain. FML

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DivineZero 18

Monday 31 August 2015 8:36

Were you watering it with little bits of garbage or something?

tehman117 21

Monday 31 August 2015 8:37

Should rainclouds be fined for littering as well?

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DivineZero 18

Monday 31 August 2015 8:36

Were you watering it with little bits of garbage or something?

tehman117 21

Monday 31 August 2015 8:37

Should rainclouds be fined for littering as well?

howard007 18

Monday 31 August 2015 16:18

Yes. #Stoptheraincycle2016

SnowxSakura 17

Monday 31 August 2015 18:51

This is California after all. No wonder they haven't gotten any rain in years, it's trying to save the money to pay fines.

incoherentrmblr 21

Monday 31 August 2015 20:51

Technically, if you collect rainwater, you can be fined for it, depending on the state you live in...

johnny29 14

Monday 31 August 2015 8:38

no good deed goes unpunished :/ i'm sorry op

FemskyD 26

Monday 31 August 2015 8:43

What did you feed it.. Redbull?

TheNewGuy03 28

Monday 31 August 2015 8:46

Brawndo. Because it's got electrolytes...

leogachi 15

Monday 31 August 2015 9:01

@7 It's what plants crave.

False_Stupidity 41

Monday 31 August 2015 9:37

Naturally. To give it wings!

incoherentrmblr 21

Monday 31 August 2015 20:54

Idiocracy never gets old. It is the inevitable...

TheNewGuy03 28

Monday 31 August 2015 8:44

Well, considering there is such a thing as a "rain tax," hardly anything surprises me anymore. It's likely that someone is trying to meet a quota, and you are the victim. Hopefully, you're rewarded in a different manner later.

leogachi 15

Monday 31 August 2015 9:05

@5 Rain tax is for pollution in stormwater drainage, not for actual rain.

TheNewGuy03 28

Tuesday 1 September 2015 19:59

16, I'm aware of that. I know they don't tax the rainfall itself, but my point is that it is a ridiculous tax to have, regardless...

Slightly_Clumsy 7

Monday 31 August 2015 8:46

Can... can they even do that?

JocelynKaulitz 28

Tuesday 1 September 2015 13:20

I'm not surprised. California's going through a severe drought right now and they're doing a lot like this to conserve as much water.

more4me 27

Monday 31 August 2015 8:55

I would contest the fine.

Sariasprincy 7

Monday 31 August 2015 8:57

Probably deserved it. They're wondering why you're wasting water since California is in a drought.

soulreaper12296 28

Monday 31 August 2015 22:28

Then OP would've been fined for wasting water, not littering.

Geekman2 10

Tuesday 1 September 2015 7:40

Well, the thing is, the argument could be made that the fine for littering is both larger and harder to disprove, thus why that fine was issued, in order to legitimize itself. But on the other hand I live in LA, and have seen cops give tickets for some pretty bogus things, but never that bad, I have a feeling that's not the whole story

iwanttogotoparis 26

Monday 31 August 2015 8:57

Government

randomguy76 14

Monday 31 August 2015 9:00

This is the result of quotas and unnecessary pressure from clueless supervisors. Makes me question how "free" we really are.

Krypt1c 11

Monday 31 August 2015 18:03

We're not. Everything we are "Free" to do is monitored in some way

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