I have a friend who would eventually become a stunt man, but well before that and fresh out of school/home, he found traffic cones on his street one day. At night he’d climb these huuuuge pine trees—we’re talking around triple or more above powerline height and taller than most apartment buildings nearby—and place one right on top.
This would go on for several months, climbing a new one every couple weeks and a new cone.
Eventually this caused so much confusion, the city news and papers covered it. People didn’t know what was going on, think council was marking trees for cutting, police were patrolling at night. Never got busted.
That article is great! I loved the cool headed “insider” they interviewed.
A council insider, who used to work on that beat, said “a long piece of plastic piping does the trick.”
Nah, different country and years before—probably around 2007 and hard to find an article back them for it. Also, definitely taller trees haha.
Later he’d regularly climb one of the city’s landmark bridges that had decorative lights on it and turn them on or off and change their colours; that caused another whole thing in the news. The bridge would be lit blue or pink for different respective awarenesses. Then just on a random date for no reason it’s lit red or green.
He did get arrested on it once, but because he got seen and cornered, they thought he was a jumper. They never put it together and had do do therapy sessions, but no fines or time.
Things like this and a lot of gymnastics and srunt acenes he slowly collected and put into a reel. Sent it off to LA and next thing we know he’s doing stunts in huge films we all know, but I won’t mention for anonymity. Dude’s got a very extensive iMDB page now, though.
People do this, for real.
There’s also people that spread seeds of various plants.
Alas, not all of them do their research. You gotta do native plants, in the right zones for them, if you want it to be something positive.
I said that to someone I used to know that would go around throwing pot seeds anywhere he was going. He said that pot is always a positive. He’s an idiot, obviously, which is part of why he’s someone I used to know.
He said that pot is always a positive.
Ecosystem wise, he is uninformed.
Societally, he may have a point. Back in the day people could lose their property due to wild pot growing. Was this a real issue, or something we thought pre-internet? I don’t know. But it is hard to take property when pot grows everywhere.
The amount of invasive mustard plants I find in my neighborhood is so frustrating.
Are you saying that pot can be an invasive species?
Any living thing can be an invasive species.
Only non native things can be invasive. That said, pot isn’t native to the us I think.
Not if it grew in the wild there for millions of years
And where is pot native?
Apparently central Asia. I was mistaken, I thought it had been growing in the wild on much of the earth. Probably got that from a stoner friend 20 years ago lol
No worries :)
I even saw the same thing in a high times back in the nineties, that it was everywhere except Europe, iirc.
I helped out at an extremely rural farm in Nebraska and cutting out wild pot plants was a somewhat regular duty.
That was most likely hemp. I got fooled in Nebraska by some growing wild along a highway. My friend and I smoked a bunch and just got a headache. That’s when we remembered that hemp cultivation was pretty common in the US prior to the 1900s
Man pets could have eaten those and gotten sick 😳
Unless I’m mistaken, the proper word for this is guerilla gardening (Wikipedia). Although that movement does mostly flowers and crops.
I’ve heard of problem doing that with trees. Careful though. Landscapers pick shallow root trees because they wont damage buried city infrastructure like data, power, water and sewer lines.
You might wanna sit down for this. Ready?
Unbelievably shitty, unimaginative punchline
Just leaf it
I think they were aware of the shitty punchline and used that sentence deliberately, which made it funny to me.
Thank goodness someone is saying it, this is some Pizza Cake tier shit
People really think they’re comedic geniuses
It’s almost as though comedy is subjective.
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What I find odd is how people feel the need to comment on things they dislike.
Like sure I’ll comment on something I don’t agree with, but as for likes and dislikes then I’ll just walk on by. Like I don’t like anime, not that I dislike it, just it’s not my thing. But I don’t need to comment on all the anime posts I see saying this is dumb as people might find some of things I enjoy dumb
Aren’t you commenting on something you dislike literally right now?
I wouldn’t say so, I’d say in commenting with curiosity as to why people do do that and my own observations.
I could be wrong though.
It doesn’t even make what I said invalid.
People really do think they’re comedic geniuses
It’s not so much that they think they are funny, more the absolute build up. It’s presumptuous.
Saying things like “you might need to sit down” sets up the line for disappointment. There’s no way it can be as funny as it promises.
The pun is sound, but the hyperbolic framing let’s it down.
And if it was so funny your legs go weak, then it doesn’t need the build up in the first place.
I think this type of social media framing belongs in the same category as videos that have text all over them saying “wait until the end!!!”. The video loops around and you think, “what did I miss, was that what we were all waiting for?”
That sounds like “anti tree fascists”.
I’m up for illegal Final Fantasy playing
AnTifa
“Aunt Tifa” was right there
That mic drop was more of a “plink”, but not a bad idea
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Yes, rebuilding (ie allowing them to recover) ecosystems by force!
Stop land repurposing, let things go derelict, plant trees, fungi, flowers, etc to get things started.
Maybe let a tree accidentally fall on a hunter killing apex predators, land developers, oil people, etc. Or can we just bioengineer a swamp thing? What could go wrong?
Seedbombs are a thing already
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Hear me out - a movement where we illegally plant trees everywhere and refuse to stop.
You might wanna sit down for this. Get ready. Are you ready?
Antreefa.
Antreefarm Is eben better
We should sit down and try to design a 3D printable seedbomb projectile injector that doesn’t look enough like a gun to get us shot by the heehaws.
