Today, I watched one of my neighbor's trees fall into the electrical lines outside my house. This was after he took a chainsaw to the tree. He refuses to cover the damages. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I decided to clear up some storm damage. I carefully cut a tree that was threatening to fall on my house. It fell on my neighbor's house instead. He's taking me to court for damages. FML
Today, my neighbors threatened to sue me because a six-foot branch fell off one of my trees and into their yard, hitting nothing on the way down. FML
Today, the tree that my neighbors have neglected to cut down fell on my car. They claim that by law, they aren't responsible and don't have to pay for it. FML
Today, I woke up at 4AM to the sound of lightning hitting a tree in my backyard, then that tree proceeding to hit my house. Later, my neighbor's tree fell over, which hit our fence, and they're not even home. FML
Today, I finally went to Home Depot to buy a chainsaw to cut down the tree leaning dangerously over my garage. When I got home, I found the tree had fallen and taken out the roof while I was shopping. FML
Today, I was awakened by the sound of chain-saws. Moments later a tree branch came through my roof. FML
Today, I woke up and found that the tree in my front yard was gone. FML
Today, my husband finally got round to cutting down a tree limb in our front yard after months of me begging him. It fell on me. FML
Today, I was overjoyed when someone finally came to my house to get the electricity back up and running. All that was changed to dismay upon finding out they first needed to find a tree trimming and removal service to clean up all the fallen branches on the power lines. FML
Today, I got home to find my truck smashed by a fallen old tree. I was going to have the tree removed next week. FML
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Top comments
Wizardo 34
Take legal action or call the police, its damage of personal property and clearly you have the evidence in a form of a giant tree.
Paintonmyarms214 21
Ouch. Sorry to hear that OP. Do you have any proof that he made the tree fall?
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Comments (53)
cherry72 13
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Wow that sucks!
BRLHP 24
Really original #1
_GoodGuy 11
What did you say that fir? I wooden have expected such words from you. I'm stumped.
cherry72 13
Damn the pressure of making a witty comment as#1 gahhhh! Lol
ManInTheMachine 20
It's not that huge a deal. I don't know why people think it's so fantastic, as you're comment is as visible as everyone else's on the first page.
ManInTheMachine 20
****, *your. My bad.
Jjimen1654 9
Its pretty stupid that you have to make an amazing pun, or witty comment to not get thumbed down. Whats wrong with you commenting what you feel?
ManInTheMachine 20
Because saying "Wow that sucks" when you could just press the button that says "I agree, your life sucks" is both wasting comment space and adding nothing of substance to the FML. And it doesn't always have to be a witty comment or pun. Many people get thumbed up for simply adding an intelligent statement or suggestion for the OP to comment section. That's just the way it is, and frankly I see no problem with it.
TheCanucklehead 22
Because puns are what make this community strong! I salute you FMLians
jsp16 24
Yea this is clearly op's fault for living in that specific house where his neighbors tree fell. Sucks to be him.
salazara 10
Huh? Leatherface is alive......since when? lol
abeg157 14
Nah,I though it was great. Man, gotta live trees falling on electric wires and having to cover the damage.
GuessWhatKids 13
As does your comment #1.
maskedman98 6
you can always sue
Paintonmyarms214 21
Ouch. Sorry to hear that OP. Do you have any proof that he made the tree fall?
tj4234 36
Chainsaws do tend to make trees fall...
evilplatypus 39
38 - I think they meant something OP could show the authorities to prove his case.
tygerarmy 35
Chainsaw cuts into a tree, are a pretty specific way to prove the neighbor did it, especially if he used his own chainsaw.
Goblin182 27
Chainsaws do not make trees fall, people make trees fall.
Wizardo 34
Take legal action or call the police, its damage of personal property and clearly you have the evidence in a form of a giant tree.
buckerado 19
This is one of the few times that it actually makes sense to sue someone...
Kristoffer 35
Only because the responsible party is refusing to cover the financial costs of his actions.
DyslexicPanda 12
37, you took the words right out of my mouth. People are sometimes douches and deserve to be treated as such
DorkAlert 10
First of all, those "electric lines" which I'm wondering if they are phone lines cuz usually its phone lines in a neighborhood and electric lines n usually underground by houses. Also, those aren't OP's property but the company that owns those lines. SOOO the company can sue OP's neighbor. Glad we could clear this up.
tacojauns 45
He can refuse all he wants but eventually you're going to get the money from him after you sue
Daiyuki 5
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
He probably figured he can just sue the tree for falling the way it did rather than pay damages to you. This *is* in America right?
Queensland 27
Yes, but obviously OP's neighbour is. So 7 has a point.
rocker_chick105 31
That joke was so funny and original. America is not stupid. We just tend to exploit our stupid people better. Don't act like we're the only country with dumb people.
DorklyComicFan 8
Any chance I'll see you on Judge Judy soon?
imagineapc 11
This is when you get a lawyer. Make sure to include legal fees in your lawsuit!
puggypark 14
Take the case to court and SUE HIS ASS
DorkAlert 10
OP can't because those lines aren't OP's property but the company that owns them. So the company can sue.
jessBeAqueen 13
wait... who is he supposed to pay for electrical lines ?
brucii 5
The electric company pays to have them fixed, but they'll send whoever damaged them a hefty bill
miiajayne 6
Damaging the power cables would still be the fault of the neighbour.