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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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Krypt1c 11

Monday 31 August 2015 18:04

Even so, I wouldn't think they could fine over something like this. Im sure OP will get out of it with ease.

ourtneyc 14

Monday 31 August 2015 19:21

I would challenge that fine. Water is not litter.

JCRouzer29 27

Monday 31 August 2015 20:49

Is CA still in a drought? If so I wonder if that was a more prominent reason.

VoodooPriestess 16

Tuesday 1 September 2015 5:52

We've been in a drought for like 5 years. According to the specialists another 2 years of it and we'll see significant death of wildlife. Yay.

Raian 7

Monday 31 August 2015 22:34

Bet that wouldn't have happened a few years ago...

Rectov 10

Monday 31 August 2015 23:11

The state was mad you took better care of their flowers than they do

nognom 2

Tuesday 1 September 2015 11:58

You aren't supposed to water with Gatorade.

wolfy_fml 5

Tuesday 1 September 2015 22:51

But its what plants crave!

subscript 15

Tuesday 1 September 2015 18:12

What were you watering it with, piss?

Apocalypse_Now 6

Tuesday 1 September 2015 22:57

I'm the guy that posted this by the way. I don't live in California, I live in North Carolina, in an area not in drought. Just wanted to clear that up.

Tezoma 28

Thursday 3 September 2015 5:32

34, When there's a water shortage, priority should go to the people, not flowers. Just sayin'.

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