Today, I watered a dying communal plant. I was fined $250 for littering. 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.
Same thing different taste
Hell in a handbasket
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
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
Thanks for your support
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
Today, at my job of two 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 two months and nobody bothered to tell me. FML
Thanks Deborah
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 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
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
Green fingers
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
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
Green fingers
Today, the plant I bought for my apartment a few weeks ago started looking worse. I'd followed the care instructions carefully, so I asked my neighbor for advice. She pointed out that the plastic pot was still inside the decorative pot, so the water had nowhere to drain. FML
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DivineZero 18
Were you watering it with little bits of garbage or something?
tehman117 21
Should rainclouds be fined for littering as well?
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Comments (62)
gracehi 33
That's California for ya.
Geckosrock99 33
California, Drought. Not surprised you got a fine, whether they gave you the wrong one or not.
peacheso 31
Wasting water on a plant? Sheesh. Il never understand some of your countries laws.
worldclassrager 41
Littering the vitimans/additives in water? Fight it...that's an easy win for you
laden_swallow09 35
Easy win. Though court costs are still expensive.
yenze 18
There is not enough information here for me to decide if OP deserves it or not.
Sangue0608 26
Assuming you were trying to do a good deed and watered the plants with, you know, water... I would take that fine to court.
RiRi6_fml 20
Now I'm really curious as to with what you were watering the plants... For example, peeing is also kind of watering the plants.
allforfun 23
Yeah except public urination is clearly illegal
Shade1982 21
US laws seem really strange to me sometimes, but how on earth is that littering?
Crazyjohnb 23
drought in California. so they can't waste water
Goblin182 27
How the hell does that work?
Emmiebears 15
Do you live under a rock? You're in California and there's a drought. There's water usage restrictions.
MandieL 27
I like your profile pic :)
jocamo 24
So do I #43. That being said, if he was being fined for wasting water it'd be one thing. OP was fined for littering. I think a follow-up is needed.