Yard Waste Service Jerks Guy Around, He Develops Well-Measured Revenge

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Eric Lund
Jan 23, 2022 7:00 PM EST

The private yard waste disposal company decided that this guy should get a fine for having some twigs extending past the usual limit, so he decided it would be fair to take some days off and really push those dimensions to their maximum extent. We can only applaud the level of pettiness and focus it takes to do hours of yard work just to prove a point. For another tale of well-measured intervention, here's the grandpa whose mailbox loophole brought mail into the third dimension.

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    Font - Posted by u/EvilTessmacher 3 days ago O 9 10 3 3 9 The results of my yardwork... I posted this in another subreddit, but it was suggested I also try it here. So here it is! First, let me say that I am not 100% certain this is Pro Revenge, because I don't necessarily think of myself in that league. I live in a consolidated county. That means that the city and county governments merged some years back, ostensibly to reduce administrative and infrastructure costs. This is important, because
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    Font - My "municipality" outsourced trash and yard waste pickup a few years ago, and the two companies who now do those collections are woefully inadequate, and their services cost more than when the city or county did it. They both have similar sets of rules what can be put out for collection, take fewer types of waste away, and no longer come two days a week as the city once did, but now only come one day a week. We're all paying more money for less service. Now that the background is done, he
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    Font - I did some yard work over the course of a couple of weekends last summer, cutting some limbs, trimming some shrubbery, and cutting down a dead tree in my backyard. Knowing what the rules are for how much yard waste, limbs, leaves, and such can be put out, I bagged everything that was supposed to be bagged, filling up three of them. Things like leaves and small clippings, weeds, and such. The paper bags for yard waste from the big-box home improvement stores are what they require, so I use
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    Font - I cut the larger limbs down to under four feet in length, or they wouldn't be picked up. Anything at all they can do to get out of picking something up, they will do. And they almost always leave a horrendous mess behind when they do pick things up. The pile put out for collection is not allowed to be any wider than ten feet, nor any deeper or higher than five feet, nor may it contain any piece longer than four feet. All bags must be placed in a row, no more than three feet away from the
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    Font - They were scheduled to come on a Tuesday, but when I got home from work that afternoon, it was all still there. There was a pre-printed notice on my door that my pickup exceeded the proscribed size limits, and the note said that I would be required to either pay a $250 oversize load fee, or "reduce the size of the pile by half" to make it fit into the limit. This is where the revenge comes in. I had the next two days off, so the next morning, bright and early, I got out the hedge trimmers
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    Font - I removed all the smaller limbs and leaves from these limbs, ending up with four moderately straight poles, each about seven feet long. I marked one foot intervals on each pole in fluorescent orange paint, and stuck them in the ground, (out at the curb in the front yard) at the corners of a rectangle exactly five feet wide and ten feet long. Got out the surveyor's tape (bright pink plastic tape used to mark property corners) and tied it onto and around the stakes at the height of five fee
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    Font - I carried each of the three bags of clippings to the back yard, and filled each of them up as much as possible, while still being able to fold over the tops and staple shut each bag. I also included small, 8" to 10" sections of the ends of larger limbs, for added weight. The bags were now completely filled, and weighed more than twice what they had before. I had to use the hand truck to get them out to the curb, they were so heavy. Oh, and all the extra clippings I had generated, filled u
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    Font - I pulled a 25-foot Stanley tape measure from my pocket, and asked them to measure the poles, to confirm that the space was within the required limits. They did so, and agreed the pile was not oversized, and proceeded to spend the next two hours manually loading it all onto their truck. Oh, and it took both of them to manhandle each of those bags into the back of the truck too. I told them, very nicely and with a smile, that I knew what ten feet was, pointed to the fence where it was marke
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