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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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Top comments
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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laserokhaos 0
Cite the tender years doctrine in court. Children 7 and under can't generally be held liable for negligent acts. The only caveat is if you failed to adequate supervise him, but as long as your justification is strong your defense should hold. You're lucky he's 7, the legal standard changes at 8.
jackycat 17
I'm pretty sure the fact the kid had time to gain access to weed killer, go to the neighbors house and spraying enough to kill the entire garden says not adequately supervised.
Shopduster 9
You deserve it, it's your kid. No matter the age under 18 the parent is always responsible
blackonblight 33
21 in some states, at least financially, iirc.
danm19 15
Pretty sure the judge is gonna just laugh this out of court. Let's hope it's put on one of the stupid tv shows so we can watch it.
jackycat 17
My neighbor got a $15,000 settlement when her next door neighbor mowed down all her prize winning roses. If the neighbor does competitions, and does well, it's seen as a loss of income.
BobRyder 24
Why would you even let that go to court? Your ******** kid destroyed something beautiful, you should apologize and pay for it then take parenting classes. Or at least have the common sense to lock up toxic chemicals, what if your 7 year old was stupid enough to drink it?
demonfacee 14
Your son must really hate your neighbor. This is why we keep chemicals away from little kids.
iwadasn 33
Well, maybe you should have taught your child to respect other people's property.
Lolgrrl 20
Time to build a fence.... Add this to a long list of why I'll never have children.
Undecidedlime 6
"Dead as ****" :,D
Sevvr27 1
Maybe you shouldnt have raised him to be an asshole
TessTickles 8
CPS should be called on you. You can't leave a 7-year-old child unsupervised. Expecially around chemicals/poisons.
thurak126 0
Seriously? When I was 7 or younger my parents let me take myself to the park by myself to make friends with who ever was there at the time. Usually I would go s few times a week. When I was 5 I would play in the road/front garden. There was a very low speed limit with signs saying children playing.
mimii00 10
I often wonder if people who leave comments like this, even have children. I watch my daughter like a hawk, but leave her safely in her playroom for one second while heaven forbid I go take a pee, and she's climbing something, or finding the one thing she can't have that I forgot to put away, or breaking the child locks off the drawers. It only takes a second for something to happen. Don't be a dick and make a parent feel worse then I'm sure they already do.
Rababco 29
Parents can't watch their kids all the time. My brothers and I would play outside or in the basement when we were younger and our parents didn't watch us constantly. I do agree that OP needs to keep chemicals, like weedkiller out of his son's reach. He may have been trying to help his neighbor by killing the weeds and not understanding that it would kill the roses too. This means the son doesn't understand the harm these chemicals can do and shouldn't be allowed near them.