‘And where did I tell him not to ride?’: Rural gardener sets a boobytrap for the 15-year-old BMX biker who keeps riding through his garden, teaching him a lesson with a popped tire and a furious parent

This entitled teen's ego deflated faster than his popped tire when he disregarded his neighbor's demands. Turns out, trespassing on someone's land and in their flower garden gives them a tactical advantage for boobytrapped life lessons… Which is exactly what this rural gardener gave to the neighborhood bike terror. 

After months of tending a garden, it's encouraging to watch the buds flourish, sprouting new life in your yard and building a hobbyist's dream garden. However, that joy can be squashed in an instant by a rogue bike tire, destroying months—even years!—of hard work in the yard in a matter of seconds. Perhaps the next time this kid gets scolded by an avid gardener to steer clear of their flower box, they'll heed the warning and save themselves the trouble of losing an entire wheel at the hands of an errant, deliberate rusty nail.

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  • As a kid, you know you've messed up when your parent stops backing you up. If your mom or dad was willing to put themselves on the line to defend you, you know you're definitely grounded if they suddenly switch teams. The mom in this next story flip-flopped onto her neighbor's side after realizing the damage done by her BMX teenager—he'll have to mow a lot of lawns to make up the cost of that next bike tire!

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  • "A flat tire and a lessoned learned"

    This happened about 20 years ago, back when our village was still quiet and far less populated than it is today. Just dirt roads, wide open yards, and neighbors
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  • who knew each other well enough to ask for sugar, coffee, hot water or start a feud over a fence line. ― There was this teenage boy from
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  • a few houses down, around 14 or 15, who loved riding his beat up BMX like he was training for the X games. The main dirt road passed right by our property, but for whatever reason, he preferred
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  • cutting through our yard—and not just anywhere, but straight through my father's plants. My dad had a small garden back then. Nothing fancy, just some
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  • shrubs, flowering plants, and a few vegetables growing in neat rows. It was his pride, something he tended to every day. So you can imagine his frustration every time the kid zoomed through and left tire marks across the soil.
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  • Dad warned him-more than once. "Stick to the road. Don't ride over the plants." The boy would nod and mumble an apology, but the next afternoon, there he'd be again, carving tracks right where he wasn't supposed to.
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  • Now, my dad isn't the kind to yell or make a scene, but he is the kind to get a little... creative. One day, he went out back to the
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  • old shed near the edge of our property. It was a broken-down thing-leaning to one side and filled with old tools and scrap wood. From inside, he pulled out a nasty-looking plank, weathered
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  • and full of rusty nails. It looked like it had fallen off the shed itself. He placed it just off the edge of the garden, right where the kid
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  • usually cut across, and lightly covered it with some dry leaves and dirt. It blended in perfectly. To anyone riding through fast, it'd just look like a patch of ground.
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  • The next day, like clockwork, we heard the familiar sound of bike tires crunching dirt. Then-POP! HISSSSSSSS! Followed by a startled yell.
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  • The boy had hit the trap de d-on. Front tire was blown out. He stood there, staring at his bike in disbelief.
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  • About an hour later, he came back with his mother. She was angry, demanding to know why there were nails on the ground. Dad met them, calm as ever.
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  • "Why would you do something like that?" she asked, pointing at the boy's damaged bike. Dad just said, "Where exactly was he riding?"
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  • The boy, quietly and with a bit of guilt, pointed toward the garden. "And where did I tell him not to ride?" my father asked.
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  • There was a long silence. Then the mom turned to her son and gave him a scolding so fierce | think the birds flew out of the trees. No more questions. No
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  • more blaming. Just a red-faced teenager and his mom hauling the busted bike home down the very dirt road he should've stayed on in the first place.
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  • My dad? He went back to watering his plants like nothing happened. The garden stayed undisturbed after that.
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  • Sid15666 Had a similar problem at my old house. I would put my garbage cans out to the street for collection and someone kept hitting my cans. Broke a new plastic one and crushed a
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  • metal one. After the 3rd time I knew it was intentional. So next trash night I put several concrete blocks between my cans. I heard the Big Bang
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  • about 2am and found some plastic parts of the front of a car spread down the road along with a trail of antifreeze. Never had an issue after that night.
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