Neighborhood Gardener Gets Even With the Corner-Cutting Teen Trampling Her Garden, Using a Freshly Laid Manure Trap

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Sep 7, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

There are some Hobbiton-esque neighborhoods where there are no fences and green grass rolls along every knoll. Here, residents can find tranquil corners of unencumbered, pristine nature, just outside their window– *record scratch* except when there's hooligan teenagers cutting habit trails in your lawn! 

In this case, one woman, an avid gardener and nature lover, found a troubling nemesis in the likes of a thoughtless teenager. The boy simply wanted to shave a few minutes off of his walk to school, but ended up burrowing an unsightly trench through the woman's yard with each step. Although a fence would do the trick to stop the corner-cutter, this crafty gardener found another way to exact her revenge: Manure. 

Scroll for the full story on how one woman's pleas to walk 10 steps to the left were ignored, resulting in one majorly stinky fallout. After this, read on about other ways that people got revenge on the dirtbags around them– like this ferocious mother who wielded the full power of her car's handicap sticker after a stickler tried to force her wheelchair-bound son to roll himself a mile out of the way.

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    Font - Posted by u/Auroraah 14 hours ago Stop cutting across my grass A We live in the end house on our street which has a slight curve. For almost the last year, I've noticed that twice a day (on the way to and from school) the same teenager cuts across our front lawn. I asked him to
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    Font - stop ages ago, but he has not. It's beginning to leave a noticeable path of thinned out grass from being walked on excessively. The kids went back to school yesterday after the summer and I noticed him do it again in the morning.
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    Font - That's when I decided that rather than confront him, I would exact my revenge. You see, said teenager is very much into their fashion, they ALWAYS have really expensive clothes and, more importantly, trainers on.
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    Font - One section of his chosen route we have been planning a flower bed. I decided, "today is that day!". I dug out the section, and put down the new loose compost (including manure of course). I then left my hosepipe squirting water on this patch for a few hours to suitably moisten the soil. To finish off, a scattering of grass clippings on the top!
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    Font - Sure enough, boy goes to cut across our grass to find himself ankle deep in wet mud and manure. I was sing myself laughing and had to compose myself before walking out and profusely apologising to him while holding two plants to put into my new flower bed!
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    Smile - Salt-Operation 13 hr. ago I was gonna suggest a motion-activated sprinkler but this better!
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    Organism - Auroraah OP. 13 hr. ago I might do that if he decides a new path through our garden is his new route!
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    Gesture - spacetstacy 12 hr. ago Just turn the hose on him! (Not really.....wel, maybe)
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    Gesture - rossarron 56 min. ago motion-activated sprinklers give deniability.
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    Font - _my_choice 10 hr. ago If you can get some, chicken manure is very high in nitrogen. If he walks through that he will smell a block away. He may smell it but not know where it is coming from. If he does problem solved. Your neighbors may not like it, but if kept watered your plants will.
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    Smile - MistaCharisma - 8 hr. ago Doesn't even need to be motion censors. You know what time he comes through.
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    Font - Tweedbreak 12 hr. ago years ago, my dad had a similar problem, he asked nicely. Asked a few times. Finally, he took out his camera, (he is a retired photographer, so it is one of those big cameras.) He started pretending to take pictures. There was no film in the camera... lol. The kids asked what he was doing, he looked at them and said evidence". They never came back.
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    Font - Lazy-Associate-4508 12 hr. ago Kids used to cut through out backyard from middle school and it didn't bother me or my parents. But one day, there was about 18" of snow in the ground. It covered up the small pond we had in the corner of the backyard. Three larger boys were chasing one smaller boy
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    Font - through our yard, screaming and threatening him. Well, the smaller kid being chased knew there was a pond in the corner and went around it. The three bullies didn't go around and fell right in. It was only 3 feet deep but they got soaked and the little kid got away.
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    Rectangle - BirdOver 13 hr. ago As I currently own a house on a corner lot, and have teenagers (and lazy parents) create a path each year, I can appreciate your plight.
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    Font - Geodude532.8 hr. ago There's a house in my neighborhood that has small versions of those anti tank Dragon Teeth on the edge of their lawn from where cars were cutting the corner too close. I want to see someone run them over.
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    Font - LibraryMouse4321 · 13 hr. ago Fence? 29 Reply Share Cross_22 12 hr. ago Moat! 37 Reply Share Inevitable_Dust_4345 12 hr. ago Land mines
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    Font - Mission Progress_674 7 hr. ago A hawthorn hedge put a permanent stop to a cutting through the front garden in my corner lot. oles 11 ↓ Reply Share Stachebandit. 4 hr. ago Yeah, but now you have an ugly hedge in your yard..
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    Rectangle - wordsnstuff825 7 hr. ago My in-laws have a corner lot and put a hedge around the yard. Nobody cuts through the lawn.
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