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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Comments (87)
guinea_pigs 9
Why wouldn't you just offer to pay for the damages? it's your kid, and even if it's not your fault he did it, you should take responsibility, and plus it would get you out of court.
haileymae17 3
No offense but you should be watching your kid.
NebulaNick 12
Yes it is reasonable to be mad about it. But it does not have to be a court issue they could have worked something out without the court.
Respect101 17
How dead is the garden if its "dead as ****"?
val_is_lame97 12
dead as ****
Brandi_Faith 34
Not only should he know right from wrong, but he clearly knew this was wrong. He wasn't spraying water or anything else, he was spraying weed killer, which means that he knew what would happen to the plants. And I agree that the neighbour should be very upset because rose gardens have a crazy amount of money and effort into them. He shouldn't have gone to court first though, he should've tried to settle this fairly outside the courts. Op: The fact that your son intentionally went out of his way to destroy someone else's things is a big problem that you need to address immediately. Rose gardens cost a lot so maybe you can try and resolve this issue outside of the courts by talking with him and offering to cover the costs. And in the future, keep harmful chemicals like this somewhere where your kid can't get them.
itsme82 18
All these people saying he's seven and didn't know what he was doing obviously don't have kids. Seven years old is old enough to know better. Maybe you should have been supervising your child!!
juturnaamo 29
If he saw the neighbor spraying the weed killer in the mulch around the roses, or his mom spraying weed killer in the sidewalk near the grass, it's pretty reasonable that he didn't know it'd kill the roses. It's not like he set them on fire.
Brandi_Faith 34
I understand what you're saying 51, but the other 2 commenters (who are also parents) are just saying that the average 7 year old knows better, by a couple years even. Most, actually practically all, 7 year olds I know (and I have 12 cousins that I knew when they were all 7) wouldn't touch the weed killer, or spray it on anything, and none of them would've even thought about going outside without asking their parents!
I_eat_hearts17 9
Weed spray was my chore from 6 and up! Also I knew how to play by myself at that age so it's not the op's fault for not watching him. If you're going to preach that 7 year olds are so smart than you need to realize regardless of whether they were taught to respect other people's property or not they have the ability to decide what their actions are. Stop trying to blame the parent. Also most neighbors these days don't talk or even know one another. I know 1 of my neighbors because the rest don't want to be friendly. The kid needs to take action for what he himself decided to do!
Isa_fml 20
He's old enough to know better, you should have been watching him, and WHY was your kid able to get his hands on toxic chemicals? Keep that shit in a safer place.
chill99 15
There's a small possibility that your son was trying to help out by killing weeds, not knowing it would kill all plants. OP knows his/her son best if he is a troublemaker or not. Either way, the son should fix this somehow. (Going to court was a bit over the top, unless OP and son were refusing to take responsibility)
vargaso 17
Why didn't your neighbor stop him instead of filming him!
SS 31
Chances are he wasn't filming him but used CCTV footage.
Christofu01 8
What about your neighbour filming your seven year old child without permission? Isn't that a little bit invasive