Today, my neighbor showed me footage of my 7-year-old son spraying his beloved rose garden with weed killer. The whole garden is dead as fuck, and I'm now being taken to small claims court. FML
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Today, in court, I was called a "pompous little gnome" by the woman I was there suing, for destroying my front garden with weed killer. The judge agreed with her and threw the case out for lack of evidence it was actually her that destroyed my garden. FML
Today, the tenants I kicked out of the house I just bought took the entire garden and flowers with them. I was already listing the place as a rental with a "backyard oasis" and now it's nothing but dirt. The courts refuse to help me. FML
Today, my neighbour is suing me because she got stung in the face by a wasp, a wasp that came from my garden into hers and stung her, therefore it must be my fault. FML
Today, my crazy neighbor screamed at me from her porch for walking "too close" to her plants. I was on the sidewalk. She sprayed me with her hose anyway. FML
Today, tired of people letting their dogs crap in my yard, I sprinkled an assortment of crushed peppers around my lawn as a deterrent. One dog went to do its business and had some sort of allergic reaction. Now its bitchy owner is threatening to sue me, and tried to have her daughter kick my ass. FML
Today, my neighbor came over to borrow my lawnmower. As I have previously loaned it to him and he returned it broken, I refused. He then promptly ate the strawberries off my daughter's small strawberry plant and stormed off. FML
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
Today, I was lying in a lawn chair next to my wooden fence when a yellow liquid started spraying me. The neighbor's douchebag son was peeing through the small hole in the fence and soaked me. FML
Today, my neighbor's son siphoned the fuel out of my lawn mower and put it in his car. What he didn't realize is that the fuel mixture I use in my lawn mower would ruin his car engine. His dad says it's my fault and actually insists I should pay his pissant son's repair bill. FML
Today, my 6-year-old son pooped in the back yard and used a stick to throw it over the fence into my neighbor's yard. FML
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BI4ze 17
How would a 7 year old get access to weed killer?
smokecloud_ 37
He's 7. He should know right from wrong and to stay out of other people's property. Rose gardens aren't cheap and the neighbor probably spent a lot of time on it. I'd be pissed too, 7 year old or not.
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BI4ze 17
How would a 7 year old get access to weed killer?
tonyfan00 38
May have mistook it for water or something...
MortenM 17
#62 exactly - he could've mistaken it for water. That's why you keep it out of reach
pandalover69 26
I guess his parents trusted him not to eat it and left it low enough for him to get it. He's 7, he's not stupid, he did that on purpose.
patrickalamo 48
#2. He walked into just about any garage and grabbed a bottle. This isn't something which is kept under lock and key.
s3kShUn47 20
#101, doesn't matter whether the kid knew it or not, but I think the neighbor is definitely uptight because they friggin stood by and watched and even recorded the kid killing the garden. It was within their power to tell the kid to stop, they had time to record, so why not use their vocal cords? Man people are just desperate enough to pull money from anyone in any way
PSYqualiac 17
129, that assumes the recording wasn't from a home security system or something.
greencurtains74 11
You probably should lock up chemicals like that when you have children...
soulreaper12296 28
How do we know it wasn't the neighbors who left it outside?
Ki11erC 18
85: Hahaha, yea you try watching a child 24/7.
JayGatsby 25
#85, although I do agree that parents should watch their child as much as possible, there are certain circumstances, such as going to the bathroom, where it's almost impossible to keep watch on the child.
Brandi_Faith 34
I agree that you can't watch your kid the entire time and they're often left alone at this age to play in their room for awhile or while you go to the bathroom, etc. But the part that is a bit weird here is the kid had time to go to the garage (or wherever) grab the weed killer, go outside (which is a Huge no no, he could've been hit by a car, injured by something, wandered away, kidnapped etc) and had time to spray and destroy and entire rose bush. So in my opinion the kid was left alone a little too long. And to be honest the fact that scares me the most is that he got outside all by himself and was out there for probably a minimum of 5-10 minutes. I'm not saying that Op is a bad parent or judging them necessarily, but I do hope this was a huge accident that he was left alone and able to go outside. I hope this isn't something that's a regular occurrence.
greencurtains74 11
Most children can handle playing alone outside for a bit by age 7. I could. I suppose it depends on the individual child and the neighborhood though. I'm sure now op knows her child can't be trusted...
interesting33 37
Depending on how safe the area is I don't think I would have an issue with a 7 year old playing outside on a field or something and I wouldn't necessarily be there watching them the whole time if they were with friends and it was nearby.
LostMy_Marbles 24
My 6.5 year old brother plays outside by himself, and can get himself in and outside the house. They are more than capable of playing safely by themselves at that age - you just have to check on them not watch them like they are a 1 year old. In saying that, 7 year olds also have the tendencies to try to 'help' but then make things worse because they don't quite understand until things are properly explained. The child could have asked what weed killer was and most people would simply reply 'it's weed killer, you spray it on weeds to kill them'. To a 7 year old who wants to help they may think if they spray it on the roses it will only kill the weeds. The chemicals should be more out of reach but we don't know where they got the stuff from yet, so we can't accuse OP of being an irresponsible parent - yet.
rydersmomma16 21
Holy crap are you kidding me? a seven-year-old can't be alone for 10 minutes?!? what the hell. No. If a seven-year-old can't be left alone for 10 minutes how are they expected to handle themselves at school??? Wow. Do you have kids 103??
taylorpric3 9
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your son is sueing you?
coutney93 12
no the neighbor is sueing her
quickit 24
#4 Did you even read the FML?
TrippyEyes 16
are you autistic?
kaitiekief 12
you're about as stupid as your profile picture.
kdm_km1 19
Wasn't ME!!
skippydoda 32
But he caught you on camera!
ElricMustang 23
"It wasn't me" Caught you spraying all the roses I actually read your comments in that tune haha
EJSwank 14
I mean you are responsible, so pay him a small due. But at the same time, court is a little much over a 7 year ild
user_one 3
The fact that the kid is "only 7" is irrelevant. He caused significant damage, whether malicious or not, and the parents should pay for the damages. If the parents would step up and do the right thing, court wouldn't have been necessary. Some of you apparently have no idea how much money it takes to have a rose garden. The plants, the fertilizer, the bug repellents....not to mention the time and effort. Kids will be kids, sure, but if your little angel damages someone else's property you should pay for it. Why should the neighbor be victimized??
K_kanaka 26
1. The fact the child is 7 will play a role in the case (the case not the morality of the action). 2. The parent didn't even have a chance to "step up" seeing as OP wasn't even aware their kid did this until the footage was shown. 3. OP most definitely would have payed for the garden without the court case (unless they have a reputation of being a douche and the neighbor was only taking precautions). 4. Let's be honest we all did one dumbass thing as kids when our parents weren't paying attention. Though the kid does need some disciplining after this.
R3TROxLOV3 32
37, point three is just a huge assumption. you don't know the OP, so you can't definitively say that they would've reimbursed the neighbor for the damage.
jackycat 17
74 that's why they said after that unless OP is a huge douche.
onlychildFTW 34
Maybe the neighbor went to OP first and OP was like a lot of people here. "He's 7 no big deal." We only have one side.
reiichan 18
Not to sound like a bitch but your kid and neighbor both sound like assholes.
royal_ranger 12
The kid is 7...not 17...
mannatee 19
Who said he was seventeen
royal_ranger 12
This chick I replied to said the kid is an ass hole. So I said the kid is 7 years old, not 17. Had the kid been 17 then he would have been an asshole. How the **** can you call a 7 year old and asshole?
Zomg_Okay 27
That kid is an asshole. ^ Like that. There is no way that kid didn't know what he was doing.
captain_mal 19
Agreed. The kid is indeed an asshole.
PSYqualiac 17
You act like the kid understood what he was doing. Even if he knew weed killer killed weeds, he might not have assumed it would kill flowers. Kids tend to try and help but make things worse instead, especially at that age. It doesn't make the kid an asshole. It makes the kid ignorant on what effects their actions can cause.
val_is_lame97 12
lol im assuming your son doesnt like your neighbor very much
game0ver_fml 18
What I want to know is, why was a seven year old running around outside, with poisonous chemicals, unsupervised? Maybe you should watch your kid.
juturnaamo 29
The guy had a garden, maybe they were *his* chemicals and he left them out, not OP.
JadeWinter 16
he was supervised. The neighbour was busy filming him, instead of stopping him.
R3TROxLOV3 32
71, or maybe the neighbor has security cameras set up on his property.
jackycat 17
46 That still doesn't explain why the 7 year old was off in the neighbors garden unsupervised long enough to destroy an entire garden.
PSYqualiac 17
I walked around in the ghetto at age 7 by myself. I think a suburban area where the greatest threat is a lawsuit is relatively safe to not be a helicopter parent. OP may have thought their kid was just playing in the backyard like too many parents do. If the kid opened the gate between every half hour checkups, then okay, that needs corrected. Otherwise, a gated backyard where you can check on them occasionally is no big deal to leave the kid to play and have fun. Just give them water every half hour to fight dehydration, a snack every two hours they are out to help balance the increase burn in calories, and bring them in before it's dark, and you're doing a good job. The kid getting out is a separate problem from being left unattended.
royal_ranger 12
Dinkleberg...
pride_of_49 13
if the neighbor had footage then why didnt he go stop the kid himself XD
amberv61 22
My guess is he probably wasn't home and had a camera outside his house to monitor what happens. That and I'm not sure I would go near a 7 year old with chemicals in his hands. I may just be thinking way too much into it but I'd fear he would spray me
Brandi_Faith 34
He probably came home or went outside to find his whole garden dead and then went to check his security cameras to see what happened and then he found op's kid spraying it down.