Waterer
San Francisco, United States
Today, I watered a dying communal plant. I was fined $250 for littering. FML
Collection
Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Same thing different taste
Anonymous
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
fml
United States
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
Anonymous
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
Emyka
Austria
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
Anonymous
Lachine, Canada
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
Wheresthebeefz
United States
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
Sam
Australia
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
Anonymous
United States
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
Username
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
Lisa
Burlington, United States
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)
outfielder55 17
Of course. ******* California. All they can do is punish and over regulate.
TheLostCauseFML 40
WTF?
vikky538 29
Wow.. The cost of community service!!
GeorgiaBea 28
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Did you water it with coffee?
Cathrin 26
While having the fine be for littering makes little sense, you probably broke some water usage restrictions by doing that, so YDI
curiouslilbird 19
The fact that this was described as a "communal plant" makes me think that this is part of a community food garden, and as such might get a sort of dispensation for water usage even during drought. I'm no lawyer, though, so I don't know all the intricacies of water restriction laws--and likely neither did OP, so all the YDIs on this one are kind of sad.
laden_swallow09 35
Huh? How does that even work?!
middlenamefrank 8
Have you heard we're in the middle of a 1000-year drought here? Nobody likes it, but you have to let them die.
hehe1996 15
That sucks OP but at least you tried to do a nice thing.
zeffra13 31
Water isn't litter. Litter builds up, water dries up. Best I can figure is they called a drought measure the wrong thing.