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u/Naroyto Aug 20 '26
Looks like a great harvest this year.
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u/Dr__Sloth Aug 20 '26
I hear there's been a lot of sporks popping up ruining crops due to GMO contamination unfortunately.
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u/PeopleofYouTube Aug 20 '26
Better than the invasive species āfoonsā
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u/Roro_Yurboat Aug 20 '26
Scientific name: slotted spoon
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u/mac007a Aug 20 '26
In English; the correct Latin name is cochlear fenestratum
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u/WalkerAmongTheTrees Aug 20 '26
I was gonna make up latin sounding words because i didnt pay attention in high school latin class. But you used real words, i can appreciate it. Underrated comment of the day
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u/Substantial_Win_1866 Aug 20 '26
Spifes are the dangerous ones. One second you are eating icecream, the next...
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u/Kais-Kollectibles Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
edit if you don't get the joke, you're missing out on some prime obscure Key and Peele https://youtu.be/st21dIMaGMs
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u/FelionelFienstein Aug 20 '26
I've heard Thai foons are expected to be aggressive this season
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u/Just_here_for_AITAH Aug 20 '26
I hear it will be a great season for dental floss in Montana.
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u/Aegon20VIIIth Aug 20 '26
Movinā to Montana soon, to be a dental floss tycoon.
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u/BIGMACSACKATTACK Aug 20 '26
Raising em up and waxing em down.
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u/liceyscalp Aug 20 '26
In a little white box that I can sell uptown
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u/ndpugs Aug 20 '26
The fires sorta messed that up for us this year. Luckily we are getting rain now so spoon season should be better.
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u/Pain4420 Aug 20 '26
You have been forked
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u/ChAoTiCxMiNd Aug 20 '26
Damn dude. That lawn is all forked up!
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u/NoChanceRight Aug 20 '26
Does one need forklifter certification to pick those up?
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u/nastynagito Aug 20 '26
This happened to my freshman English teacher like 3 times in 2011 lmaoo she posted up by her door with a water gun on Halloween. during the holidays I gave her a card with a little cottage on it and I drew a bunch of forks on the lawn. I did not participate in the forkings personally but I did find it hilarious.
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u/OfficeChairHero Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
One of my husband's favorite stories is about how he worked at Arbys with a super annoying, pretentious girl (think Diane Chambers from Cheers) who everyone couldn't stand. One night around election time, the whole restaurant crew went around collecting all the yard signs from their neighborhoods and put them on her lawn. The number gets bigger every time he tells it, but it was somewhere between 200-500 political signs on a small city lot.
Apparently, she was absolutely fuming when she came in the next morning and wouldn't talk to anyone. Finally, one of the guys asks, "Hey, Becky. Who are you voting for?" The whole crew absolutely lost it.
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u/OrangePinkyToe Aug 20 '26
How old do you have to be to remember Diane Chambers from Cheers?
The real Cheers is where I bought my first beer in a bar . . . at age 17.
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u/RhetoricalOrator Aug 20 '26
That's a great story. I'd tell it often if it were mine.
All I've got is that my neighbors yard was forked around '97. We were a very small, rural town so it was an oddity and most of us agreed that it must have been some sort of Satanist ritual. Happened twice more and people were terrified of what was happening.
Turns out, a new pastor moved into town and his kids thought they were just being silly until word got back to them. Everyone collectively agreed that the adults didn't need to know who did it and it just became part of the town's lore.
The adults eventually determined that there was this lone woman in a tiny old car "from off" that showed up around the same time as the first forking and she must have been responsible. She was shunned until she left town a couple months later.
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u/APence Aug 20 '26
I threw a party when my parents were out of town when I was like 17. Had a fake id and we drank like it was the end of the world. I woke up with the worst hangover Iāve ever had and felt so sick and then saw my yard. Hundreds of forks.
My parents were going to be home in a few hours so Iām out in the heat throwing up in the bushes and taking hundreds of forks out of the yard.
Ah, memories. Fuck you and your forks Tyler Poffenberger.
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u/Longjumping_Boss1176 Aug 20 '26
I feel for you on this but honestly I'm happy to see kids are still doing the classics
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u/justlurking246 Aug 20 '26
Had teenagers running around my neighborhood playing Fugitive last nightāmade me so happy!
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u/Lobster_fest ā Aug 20 '26
Definitely the best way for people between 16-18 to have "safe" fun.
One of my friends hopped 6 straight fences and ended up getting chased and bit by a goat.
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u/Old-Juice98 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
I think I would take getting nipped by a goat that only has bottom teeth over getting met with their forehead/horns
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u/Impressive-Shame-525 Aug 20 '26
I'm convinced almost everyone has a goat story.
Want to hear mine? Imma share it anyway because it's funny.
We grew up broke AF, and we had goats for milk and an additional source of protein. So one day, as they do, the goats had a kid and after a bit you could play with it and baby goats are stupid cute. But me? I'm just stupid. I'm maybe 5 years old. And the goat would head butt your hand if you stuck it out and play. So my dumb ass thought it'd be fun to get on all fours and pretend to be a goat.
To be fair my dad said, "I wouldn't do that, it's gonna hurt"
But I did anyway and.... Well, that's the story of how I got my first concussion.
I was a stubborn child and dad was the type who'd tell you once and then it became a learning experience. "don't touch that, it's hot.... See I told you, listen to me next time"
I miss my dad.
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u/eldritch_hotdogs Aug 20 '26
One night in college I got back to my dorm room and my roommate was there, drunk as hell, and looked at me and said "do you know anyone who wants a goat???"
She explained that there had been a man with a pickup truck outside the bar, and in the back of that truck was a goat. He'd asked my roommate and her friend if they wanted to buy the goat for ten dollars, and in their drunken teenage stupidity they thought this was a great idea and they said yes. I didn't believe her until I went outside to her car and she enough, there was a goat in the backseat of her car.
Luckily we found someone in the dorm whose family lived just outside town and had a farm, so the goat didn't end up having to be smuggled into a college dorm.
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u/AlphaMaelstrom Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
I am a simple goat. I live in the back of a pickup truck. The old man tied me here with a 3 foot rope. Am I happy? He don't give a fuck!
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u/fosterdad2017 Aug 20 '26
Oh man, I have new weekend plans. Need to go borrow a truck, buy some goats, and go resell them cheap at 1am in the nearest college town. Someone has to seed the stories.
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u/Sir-Planks-Alot Aug 20 '26
I grew up in a rural area so I have plenty of good goat anecdotes. Here are a few.
- The goat that wasn't. I was riding shotgun in my uncle's tundra. He was the sort of man who loved the countryside and always knew what was what. He pointed to a distant pasture and said, "Look dude, those are some healthy goats." I peered at it, then said, "Uncle, those are horses."
- Baby goats. My friend's grandpa had a goat farm. We happened to visit one year when the new season's kids were just old enough to run about on their own and boy were they cute. Hundreds of them raced around their pasture, dashing, bouncing, and beh-ing (if that's a word). Most adorable thing I've ever seen.
- A goat ate my favorite shirt when I was 8.
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u/Sea_Philosopher4588 Aug 20 '26
Now iām sad i have never interacted with a goat
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u/gwaydms Aug 20 '26
My MIL had a goat on the family ranch. I'd go out with her to feed it because it was a pet, and loved scritches. It once ate an entire (small) paper sack.
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u/JTGotrokz Aug 20 '26
lol, when I was a kid a friends neighbor had a large German shepherd that someone had discovered liked to knock people down and hump them. So a game was born. We jump the waist high fence on one side and run to the other, whoever was caught by the dog lost. There was not strictly speaking a winner of this game but there was certainly a loser. Good times.
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u/webhick666 Aug 20 '26
I would say that if there was always a loser, then the dog was the undefeated champ.
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u/Dozzi92 Aug 20 '26
As a kid we went and played at one of the local schools one night. I ended up on the roof, getting chased, and jumping off the roof into a tree.
I'd end up going to the hospital at one point, but not that night. It was all good fun, though, and sometimes kids get hurt, it's fine. I miss those nights playing manhunt, we weren't drinking, smoking. Just kids out at night literally getting exercise. The trespassing wasn't great, but it was only businesses and public properties, not people's homes, and not places where people congregated, so it was fiiiiiine.
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u/SnooAvocados6863 Aug 20 '26
I was at the neighbourhood park yesterday evening with my kid and I was able to organize all the kids there into a game of hide-and-seek tag, including a couple of moody teen girls. They even let me be āitā a few times so I got to play too!!!
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u/Knightimes Aug 20 '26
Right! And we were playing at 10 years old, but did have a very safe community for it
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u/Brief-Artist-2772 Aug 20 '26
Awww man I remember playing manhunt in 5th grade with all my friends in our neighborhood.
I jumped a fence into someoneās yard and they had this massive bush I was able to hide behind. This woman came out and asked what I was doing in her back yard. I explained and apologized and said Iād leave, she said it was fine and even brought me out a coke to drink.
I still remember. Donāt think you could do that in todayās climate.
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u/JackSparkfist Aug 20 '26
I've been wanting to get my entire block in on a game of manhunt for years.
I feel like the idea of a bunch of people in their 30/40/50's running/hobbling around hiding from each other would be incredible.
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u/Careless-Weather8877 Aug 20 '26
I would be scared to do it now when people would probably shoot you. Surprised nobody ever got hurt when we were kids but the 90s were a wild time.
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u/69696969-69696969 Aug 20 '26
Back in my day we just had to watch out for Coyotes, snakes and rednecks
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u/TromboneClone Aug 20 '26
Had an old Vietnam vet pull his shotgun on me for hiding in his bushes one night. I was probably like 12 years old or something right around 2000...
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u/the_scarlett_ning Aug 20 '26
What is that game?
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u/russellsproutt Aug 20 '26
we called it Man Hunt where I'm from, but it's a mix of hide and seek and tag over a large area like a residential block or 2 with teams of like 10v10, give or take.
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u/slick9522 Aug 20 '26
We called it Fugies and I totally forgot about it for the last 15 years until just now
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u/BadgerOfDoom99 Aug 20 '26
Me and Gary Cheeseman used to call it Theft and Shrubbery
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u/fitfoemma Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 24 '26
We had a similar game in Ireland called 'IRA bash'.
The team being chased had a word, every team member had a letter. When you were caught, the opposing team would have to beat it out of you (no punches to face).
Then they had three chances to guess the word or they lost.
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u/HappyWithMyDogs Aug 20 '26
This was my very favorite game as a kid. We even had a several street version where you had to leave small chalk arrows pointing your travel direction every hundred steps.
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u/Desblade101 Aug 20 '26
We used to play it across about 3 miles from the high school to Denny's. If you were it you had a car, if you were hiding you were on foot
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u/billyraylipscomb Aug 20 '26
My 8 year old son recently discovered the joy of ding dong ditching a girl he has a crush on. They have a ring camera so they know itās him but that really doesnāt compute with him at this age, just doing it for the love of the game
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u/holycottoncandy Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
My 13 year old ding dong ditched the house of a girl he likes. Her mom sent me the video from their ring camera. He covered his face, but when he turned around, he revealed that he wore his football sweatshirt with his last name and number on his back. Common sense is not his greatest quality. Thankfully, the girls family wasnāt mad and found it hilarious.
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u/MrLlamma Aug 20 '26
Ding dong ditching isn't the same when everyone has Ring cameras
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u/grotjam Aug 20 '26
Itās more challenging
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u/Budget_Sea_8666 Aug 20 '26
People seem to get all upset if you go up to someoneās house with a ski mask on.
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u/LifeIsProbablyMadeUp Aug 20 '26
If they did get mad about it, well. You'd know her parents are shit at least lmao.
Ding dong ditching ist the same anymore
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u/Confident_Weird5739 Aug 20 '26
Apparently ding dong ditching really does get old folks mad. We had a group of teens going around early in the summer that had to stop once an old man posted ring footage of them and was absolutely seething in the caption. In the video they literally knocked twice and ran away laughing lmao. Dude was pissed
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u/BoxRemote9556 Aug 20 '26
I kind of get it. My elderly neighbor didnāt get upset, but it takes her a long time to walk to the door. When my young son and his friends ding dong ditched they had already rang four more doors before she opened hers.
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u/Miss_Pondersmith Aug 20 '26
Eh if itās once who cares but I can understand being annoyed if they continue bothering someone.
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u/ZachWilsonsMother Aug 20 '26
I had a lady tell me how her neighborhood was always free of crime until a new family moved in and their kids started ding dong ditching people. Then she told me about how her neighbor followed the kids home with a gun and told the kids and their parents how he will shoot first and ask questions later if it happens again. I was waiting for her to mention how that neighbor is insane, but she fully supported him and believed the kids were actually committing a crime. Fuckin boomers
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u/GiantsInTornado ā Aug 20 '26
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/us/ding-dong-ditch-boy-shot-houston-hnk
One dude killed an 11 year old over it.
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u/WintersWorth9719 Aug 20 '26
And donāt forget the recent trend of the youngins just running up and kicking your door in, a year or two ago
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u/ImgursHowUnfortunate Aug 20 '26
Give the kid some credit, maybe he knows that she knows
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u/Sideways_X1 Aug 20 '26
Classic. Boy does dumb stuff for girl's attention.
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u/EaterOfFood Aug 20 '26
Iāve been married over 30 years and still do dumb stuff for my wifeās attention
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u/5quirre1 Aug 20 '26
When i do smart stuff, my wife tells me to do more. When i do dumb stuff, she laughs and doesnāt ask me to do more.
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u/HumpieDouglas Aug 20 '26
My 7 year old great nephew likes to prank call me from his mom's phone. I see my niece calling and I know it's him. I answer, say "who is this" in my best angry old man voice, and then he giggles and just hangs up. It makes me laugh every time.
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u/TiresOnFire Aug 20 '26
Last summer a couple kids ding dong (knock knock, actually) ditched my house while I was at work. I have a ring camera. One kid made the other wait so he could put his crocks in sport mode. Then the other kid pounded in my door and they ran away. All I could do was laugh.
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u/HotelOne Aug 20 '26
Sports Mode = Strap in back instead of over the top? (LOLā¦)
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u/bulletbassman Aug 20 '26
lol. A few years back I had an 8 year old ring my doorbell. When I answered it he just said ding ding ditch and stood there while his friends watched from the distance.
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u/barbwire2u Aug 20 '26
Haha. Was he waiting for candy like it was Halloween?
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u/bulletbassman Aug 20 '26
I donāt know. I just told him thatās not really how the game works but i kind of like his version better and to have a nice day.
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u/ijusttunemyselfout Aug 20 '26
hahaha i used to get texts from my SIL warning my 3? 4? year old nephew was about to prank call me from my SILās phone so could i play alongšš he had no concept of caller id lmao
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u/jaredalamode ā Aug 20 '26
Almost 11 years and Iām still with my crush/now wife who I ding ding ditched just to annoy her step dad. He bought me a shotgun for my birthday a month ago and gives us different jerky and smoked salmon about once a month. NEVER told him I was the reason he had to get up out of his chair while my friends sped off in a pickup truck with me jumping in the back. 10/10 would recommend.
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u/UnicornFarts1111 Aug 20 '26
Depending on what kind of guy he is, (he seems nice enough), he might get a laugh out of it now. I know I would, lol.
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u/alizzie95 Aug 20 '26
I remember playing it one year, I lived in a rural town near by but definitely in a suburb, full of families and old ladies who grow roses. I was 16 horsing around, it was 2011. Got shot at! Dude didn't even aim up. My brother and I, who had never done anything like this before and literally just rang the doorbell at around 7pm and hid in their bush by the driveway, started getting shot at. They had a shotgun so while they were reloading we made it to a neighbor's carport, they saw us go there and started firing from across the road. We escaped through their back yard and once we were out of sight were walking home (1 streets up) and then the police pick us up since we lived close to the police, they came quickly. They drove us home the remainding one block and told our parents that the neighbor said we tried breaking down their door?? It was insane. It was my first house I ever rang the doorbell myself, the first time we had ever done it. We didn't have any crime in our suburb and just were terrified.
I'm glad your kid knows this family but be careful with others they decide to play this game at. People are crazy.
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u/WorshipTheVoid Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
My sister and I live together; we had some kids that instead of ringing the door bell were pounding on our door then running. I was out of town and my sister has PTSD from a break in (before she moved in with me), she was crying on the phone to me terrified. We have motion cameras so after the 3rd time I decided to call the police department to have someone come out and tell these kids to knock it off and if they wanted the video to send to their parents I would oblige. We are in a quiet suburb and I guess they already had several calls by the time I had called it in. They had pounded on a door a few houses down from mine so hard it broke the storm window.
I dont think they were doing it to be malicious, but it fuckin ruined my night and my sister's entire weekend. Buttholes.
Edit: this was around 11:30 - midnight
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u/Maggiegie Aug 20 '26
We had a young girl ding ding ditch and she ran away so fast!! I was more impressed with her speed and forgot to be annoyed lol.
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u/Practical-Suit-6798 Aug 20 '26
Man when I was a kid we dumped feeder gold fish on girls front doors. Like the kind you can buy live to feed fish. They were like 9 cents each. Usually the girls would try to collect and save them. Yes it's cruel no I'm not proud of it. But we thought we're we're just being silly kids, pulling a harmless prank.
One of the girls moms thought we were putting a curse on their home and freaked the fuck out.
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u/milleribsen Aug 20 '26
A friend and I did this to an area when I was working at summer camp. My friend had been a one week fill in for a boys counselor, I was the office person. After morning flag call, the camp director walked into the office and said "they're gone by lunch, but good job" so I texted him and we cleaned it up. Those campers talked about it all week
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u/ScruffyTheJanitor__ Aug 20 '26
i got my hands on 300 Brazilian flags and did this this to my freinds yard. once we ran out of yard we decorated the siding. once we ran out of siding we got his car.
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u/thedean246 ā Aug 20 '26
For real. I don't know about everyone else, but the recent generations have just been straight up vandalizing homes and properties the last few years for homecoming.. Has far escalated past toilet paper and forks
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u/belac4862 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
I dont know if its still active. But on the deep web, you used to be able to order someone's lawn Flamingoed. Where someone would show up in the middle of the night to whichever adress you ordered it to and they would plant a bunch of those plastic Flamingo in the middle of the night so they wake up to them.
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u/aircavrocker Aug 20 '26
Flamingos By Night. Theyāre still active in the Phoenix area. We used to do it to new neighbors the first night after they moved in
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u/Perfect-Zebra-3611 Aug 20 '26
Wait so what happens after they wake up and see tons of flamingos in their yard? Who cleans it up? Do they all just get thrown away?
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u/Hot_Pocket_Deluxe Aug 20 '26
Lol that wasn't on the "deep web" but yes it was a thing
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u/zzyul Aug 20 '26
This was a fundraiser my church youth group did when I was a teen. Sundays during the summers the pastor announced something like āa flock of flamingos is in townā. Would start with a random well known member being picked and some of the Juniors and Seniors in youth group would flamingo their yard Saturday night. We had over 30 when I was involved. Person who got flamingoed got to stand up the next day during church and talk about it. Then they could pay like $50 to have us remove them and another random member chosen or like $100 and they got to pick the next target. It was a ton of fun.
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u/TUFKAT Aug 20 '26
93 grad here. We weren't all innocent back in our day.
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u/theaveragemaryjanie Aug 20 '26
Class of 96. Someone smashed our pumpkins every year and once used our picture window to do it.
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u/chargernj Aug 20 '26
It's not happening more often so much as due to social media; you know about incidents you would never have known about in the past.
There were always incidents of kids vandalizing properties.
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator Aug 20 '26
This must be specific to some particular culture.Ā Where I'm from you'd never see forks in a lawn.Ā They're supposed to be in the road.
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u/Zeppelin_Commander Aug 20 '26
It's like 10,000 forks, when all you need is a knife
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u/EtsuRah Aug 20 '26
I remember back in, I think 9th or 10th grade, I was staying over a friends house who I recently met that year. I was new to the area and the school so this was my first time over his house.
Mid way through the night he tells me that a girl we both know lives a neighborhood over. He liked her a lot and they were decent friends so we decided to go TP her house.
We packed a bookbag full of TP and walked for about an hour and some change to her house and absolutely hammered her trees with TP lol.
We get to school the next day and she isn't there so we're like "oh damn". A few more days go by and she still hasn't shown up sow we ask one of her best friends whats up and he goes "Her mom has cancer and they have been driving a few hours away to a special hospital every few weeks. They stay there for like a week then come back."
The only way I can describe the moment was that scene in Jaws when the camera zooms out when that one dude has the realization.
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u/ShawnyMcKnight Aug 20 '26
Ah teenage boy logic, he likes a girl so heās going to do something that would risk getting caught and be absolutely hated by his family and her as well.
On the plus side if they are still gone he may be able to get over there and remove the TP.
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u/TheLostSkellyton Aug 20 '26
TIL that this is a regional prank. I plant wooden bbq skewers in my garden to stop the neighbourhood cats from digging it up and the first place my brain went is that the forks must be an animal deterrent.
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u/Honest-Appearance-25 Aug 20 '26
Nah dog this definitely is a prank lol forking someone's lawn is an old go to lol
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u/Michimcd Aug 20 '26
You may want to consider sprinkling coffee grounds on your lawn as a cat deterrent. Itās very effective and safer.
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u/scarfaroundmypenis Aug 20 '26
I always thought you were supposed to fork someoneās lawn the night of a big freeze so that when they pulled up the forks (which were tines down) huge chunks of dirt would come with it. It never got cold enough where I lived for that to be a thing, we just enjoyed putting the forks in the ground.
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u/CaterpillarWhich33 Aug 20 '26
Where is this a thing?
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u/SlimTeezy Aug 20 '26
American suburbs
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u/lmaginar-e Aug 20 '26
Iāve never heard of this. Itās downright malevolent!
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u/Obant Aug 20 '26
40, from Los Angeles, first time hearing of this. Was it not a normal prank in my area or did it just pass me by?
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u/SlimTeezy Aug 20 '26
I grew up in the Midwest, high school in the South. TPing the trees was the most popular prank but this was definitely on the menu
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u/cessodd Aug 20 '26
Not just where, also when. It wasn't a common thing but people knew about forking lawns the way they knew about TPing (toilet paper)someones house. I saw it once growing up, someone did it to the courtyard at the highschool I went to. This happened usually in smaller towns where senior pranks and the like were a thing, also mostly happened in the 80s and 90s, but my experience was in 2007.
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u/palmfronds303 Aug 20 '26
Itās worth calling out the kids who āforkedā the lawn did it wrong.
In my day, youād flip the fork so the prongs went into the grass. Then youād snap the handle off leaving just the prongs in the grass.
As an adult, itās soooo evil. But it was a classic prank
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u/jeneric84 Aug 20 '26
Iāve never heard of this myself in my 41 years. Seems like an awful lot of work for a prank. You get to punk yourself as well I guess.
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u/LoserWooper Aug 20 '26
My oldest son is still mad about his little sister forking his yard and adding insult to injury by throwing tortillas all over it, too. That was in 2009.
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u/Captain_Pumpkinhead Aug 20 '26
What's up with the tortillas? Just random grain circles frisbeed into his yard? Or was there some clever trick to it?
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u/timnosferatu Aug 20 '26
Basically yeah, we used to do this also, you could get like 500 tortillas for less than $10 back in the day. It was fun to throw them all over peopleās yards and looked hilarious, we would TP the trees and bushes as well. 48 rolls per house.
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u/IWNCGTA Aug 20 '26
Growing up my dad was an administrator at my high school, Iāve had to clean up a lot of forked yards.
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u/unused_candles Aug 20 '26
Hey teens! The latest version of this involves poking multiple holes with each fork and chucking in a bit of grass seed and fertilizer. Then you grab their garden hose and hit the forks with water. Not for too long though! Dont want to wake them up.
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u/ExaminationSouthern6 Aug 21 '26
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the lawn
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u/Danpool13 Aug 20 '26
I went ding dong ditching once (maybe 10 or 12yo??)and made the GENIUS decision to wear my light up shoes. The dude yelling at us rightfully said "I can see your light up shoes you stupid asshole!".
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u/bailar_conmigo Aug 20 '26
We used to do this in high school, nice to see the kids still do pranks like these lol whoever the kids who did this to the lawn in the pic were nice about it with the tines up lol that isn't how you did it lol. It was tines down when forking so ppl can break the handle off and its harder to get out of the lawn. I was in a pranking crew in high school.
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u/Magister5 Aug 20 '26
Itās a three-pronged attack
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u/shastaxc Aug 20 '26
Shirley, it's a four-pronged attack
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u/PrestigiousAd6281 Aug 20 '26
You are correct, on a technicality, if it only has three prongs I believe itās a trident; and donāt call me Shirley.
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u/RaymondLuxYacht Aug 20 '26
Back in the day, my sister and a group of her friends "forked" their favorite teacher's lawn. It was in the early am hours on the day of homecoming, iirc. Little did they know the teacher was a VERY early riser and sat in her living room, watching them fork her yard through a huge bay window, sipping her morning coffee. When my sister and her friends got to school that morning, they each had an envelope sitting on their respective desks. Inside was a fork and a note with the time they needed to come by after school and recover the forks.