'I planted them all over': Tenant gets back at bad landlord by planting bamboo around their apartment

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Dec 4, 2023 9:00 AM EST

If there's one thing that can wreck a homeowner's day, it's bamboo. I had a coworker way back who bought a house where—unbeknownst to him—the previous owner had planted bamboo next to the house alongside their deck. From the day I got to know him until the day I left that job, he was constantly battling that blasted plant, having to crawl in and under their low-lying deck structure to keep it from spreading and out of the foundations of the house. The bamboo was his nemesis, the Joker to his Batman—the bamboo was an irremovable object, and he was too stubborn and prideful to ever surrender to a pumped-up blade of grass. I don't know what ended up happening with their struggle, but I can only assume the two are still locked in their eternal conflict to this very day.

Based on the number of comments sharing a similarity to my own story in their own battles with bamboo, it's safe to say that this is a dastardly bit of petty revenge indeed and certainly not one that you should go about trying at home due to legal and ecological ramifications that may occur. With certainty, you should not do this yourself just because you're slightly perturbed at your greedy, small-minded landlord. I can also say with certainty this user needs to learn how to spell "bamboo."