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probably some mentally defect person does it. last time someone stole my plants were some crazy guy on a bike. he just yank them out and threw them all over the neighbourhood.
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Nope. Probably going to be somebody's birthday present. Happy birthday Mom. I hope you like the (stolen) flowers...
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Funny, I was walking home this evening and a young lady rode by on her bike with a backpack stuffed with sunflowers. I was wondering where she had gotten them and why she stuffed them into a bag. Never occurred to me that people may have been "liberating" flowers from other people's gardens.
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I had a roommate at one time who was not from this city. I discovered she had been going to people's front yards and side walk trees and liberating flowers and flowering branches. If she wasn't going to be leaving in a month anyway I would have kicked her out for that alone. Her excuse, "they're not cutting them so clearly they don't want them". I blew my gasket and gave her the, "if everyone who thought they were pretty picked them there would be none for the rest of us to enjoy speech." I give it to little kids, I never thought a grown a** adult would need it. I can totally imagine otherwise sane, selfish, self involved people doing such an jack wagonny thing such as taking these flowers.
Well done on the sign. Maybe it should be bigger.
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I love the passive/aggressive scolding by posted sign.
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It's not passive/aggressive, it's sarcastic. And awesome.
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after a little rain that sign would be gone. hmm thought about getting one of those water proof signs?
after i got mines stolen i just brought cheaper plants.
Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
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this would be a passive aggressive note
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/08/02/precious-tomatoes/
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Here's a recent story. Friends live in a grimy looking building off 4th Avenue. Outside is one of those ugly cement planters that the residents filled with Hollyhocks.
One afternoon, a resident comes out to find someone starting to remove each plant in its entirety from the planter. After being confronted, the perp starts to negotiate with the resident about how many plants he can take. He decides to leave on his bicycle when another resident, about 2x the size of Hulk Hogan, arrives to "take it from here". The nerve. If you live in NY, you learn early and often that anything outdoors is for the taking.
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ringrunner said:
this would be a passive aggressive notehttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/08/02/precious-tomatoes/
That's more of a crazy-person rant.
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armchair_warrior said:
after a little rain that sign would be gone. hmm thought about getting one of those water proof signs?after i got mines stolen i just brought cheaper plants.
What you didn't notice was that I reinforced all of the edges with packing tape. I don't expect it to last through Irene, but my hatred will persist.
These sunflowers were planted from seed by kids, so expense wasn't an issue. It was more about emotional investment and trying to do something nice on a block that doesn't have a lot of tree pit love.
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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2011/08/sloper-miffed-at-flower-thief/#disqus_thread
For better or worse, the change on Nostrand is going to make the change on Franklin look minor. -
it's for times like this that I own my own laminator. No kidding.
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Note to note leaver: This is Brooklyn, Not Mayberry,
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Testiculon said:
Note to note leaver: This is Brooklyn, Not Mayberry,Ah yes, I always forget that, in Brooklyn, it's a-ok to steal from your neighbors and generally be an asshole.
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No one said it was a-ok...I just prefer to live my life with realistic expectations.
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In Brooklyn, its realistic to expect that if someone catches you cutting the flowers in their front yard that their kids planted and tended, said someone will deliver the ass-kicking of a lifetime.
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It's sad (pathetic really) that people just steal whatever they like. Kinda makes you with we had a roving neighborhood enforcement gang with baseball bats. In fact, wasn't there someone on here a while back who wanted to do that, after someone stole his bike seats?
Anyway, sorry your flowers were stolen, that sucks
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The Psycho-ologist
big A little a Bouncing B the system may have got you but it won't get me.
Joined: Jan '08
Posts: 439Now I know why NYC is so gray brown and barren looking. I too had a beautiful window garden that was systematically destroyed by my fellow neighbors. One of my friends who lives in a Brooklyn Heights building says that before Kindle, she used to get her Sunday NY Times stolen ROUTINELY from her apartment door. She was on the 3rd floor in a nice building , so it was definitely one of her neighbors doing the stealing.
My advice: Bring your garden inside, and if you have cats like me, make a beautiful rock garden, that they won't chew or be poisoned by ingesting. Cats love to eat plants and some are poisonous for them.
I actually watched a neighbor's son pour juice out the window onto my window while his father was standing right there in front of me.
The fun gall is that these "neighbors" try to be polite by holding the door open for me. My reaction: "Listen your son, family members and friends you hang out with in front of my window destroyed a 100+ dollar garden, you never paid me restitution for it, and now you wanna make nice after continuing to pollute our stoop with your noise? I will pass."Welcome to NYC. As you can see on this very thread, very few people have manners or consideration for the possessions of others. We just expect that because we live in a city we have to behave that way. To them, I say visit Zurich if you have the money, or Amsterdam. You see beautiful window gardens and floral displays that stay wonderfully intact in so called "urban" cities. It's the fucked up people that live here, NOT NYC.
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The Psycho-ologist said:
Welcome to NYC, very few people have manners or consideration for the possessions of others.I would disagree and point out that it only takes a couple assholes to rub a bunch of people the wrong way.
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The Psycho-ologist
big A little a Bouncing B the system may have got you but it won't get me.
Joined: Jan '08
Posts: 439WhyFi said:
I would disagree and point out that it only takes a couple assholes to rub a bunch of people the wrong way.You are right. I edited my post to point that out, after reading it. What bothers me though is: A) the amount of tolerance and excuses we make for such fucked up people and B) the resignation that many of us have to dwelling with these people without calling them on their bullshit.
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The Psycho-ologist said:
To them, I say visit Zurich if you have the money, or Amsterdam. You see beautiful window gardens and floral displays that stay wonderfully intact in so called "urban" cities. It's the fucked up people that live here, NOT NYC.Aren't you overreacting? Park Slope is one of the greenest neighborhoods anywhere. On my block, almost every home has windowbox flowers, planted tree pits, and flowers on stoops. Yes, occasionally things get stolen and it SUCKS but let's not make it out like this is some concrete wasteland. Just look at blocks like 8th between 7th and 8th Ave. Just beautiful.
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Ohhh, this brought back a memory.
When I was 4 or 5 and in kindergarten, I had a serious crush on my first teacher. On the way to school, there was a rose bush I'd pass daily. Having no idea that it was wrong, or that they were the property of anyone, I'd take one each morning and give it to my teacher.
After a few days of this, the owner of the bush followed me home and very politely told my mother what I was doing. Standing behind her while they spoke, I started crying, for I was shy and overly sensitive and, once again, had no idea I was doing anything wrong. The owner was very apologetic (I can still hear her, over 30 years later "it's ok, it's ok, you just have to stop"). Needless to say, I never picked another rose, knowing now what I didn't before, that they were someone else's property.
I guess what I'm trying to say is where, yes, this probably is the work of a douchbag, it could also be something else, something less cynical, something like the romantic gesture of a kid who simply doesn't know better.
Still, I'm sorry to hear about the sunflowers, especially for the kids. This isn't one of those awesome life lessons.
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Unless the kid is 6ft tall, it wasn't a kid.
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thats why we can't have nice things cause assholes ruin it for the rest of us.
next house i'm doing is steel front doors, bars install right away etc...
adding stuff always cost me more later on.
putting garbage cans into the back yard.
my neighbours abuse my cans. even the auto mechanic you guys seem to love in the hood does. his customers does anyway, they always put their garbage into mines and always not sorted the right ones.
even though his business and house is literally closer. his customers would dump their garbage into mines not sorted. he knows this. but i'm not there all the time. don't want shit to happen. they used to sit on my stoop and fence(sometimes they would sit on the door part of the fence which is the weakest and not good) all the time. i try to be accommodate, now there is a siting benches next to my trees :p. seriously people can't have nice things in life.
I always try to be accommodating towards neighbours. one neighbour property owner dump his shit into my yard and my tenant didn't tell me about it, it block her window and she didn't say a thing. i only notice it when fixing her stuff. and took me many hours to cut a hole into the window can't get garbage out cause its stuck between my building theirs but the space is own by me, same jerk off dump garbage into mines and i caught him doing it once and confronted him. before this during snow storms he'll forget to buy salt i would give him half of my bag. I'm sick of being the nice neighbour.
I also caught the homeless guys and their friends dumping auto supplies into my front yard all the time. after that i would put it right back in front of their yard and tell them i saw them do it and point to my camera. they did that for a long while till they got tired of me dumping it back towards theirs.
My neighbours where i live aren't any better bunch of racist jerks. i let their kids play in my front yard. same kids threw some racial slurs and done stupid shit towards me and family.
i saw them playing again in my front yard i told them to get the !@@#$ out. they were like why and i'm like you did shit towards me and expects me to let you play in my yard?
now only one girl and her family plays in my yard. they haven't done shit to me yet.
I don't have luck with neighbours. lol unlike the brownstoner post. I don't mind the dog walkers pooh because they at least put it in the right can. seems to me jerks are abound in nyc.
Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
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The kind of person who steals stuff like this isn't really going to care that your kid planted those flowers. Like the bike thief doesn't really give a shit that he broke that chick's heart. Low life scum just doesn't care about anyone's "feelings".
Go do something useful.
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