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Jerk takes out aggression on neighbor's tomato plants
By adamg on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 10:08pm
A Somerville resident woke up this morning to find his tomato plants destroyed. And then he looked at the video from his surveillance and saw one of the neighbors from down Roberts Street (off Hinckley) kicking the hell out of the plants.
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The worst part was the poem he left
This Is Just To Say
I have kicked
the tomatoes
that were in
the garden
...
To be fair...
he looks a little sauced
?
To be fair to whom or what?
Owner should file a criminal harassment complaint - tie him up in court hearings for about 6 months - let him incur the cost of a lawyer - have a harassment entry on his legal file
Probably not the first time he behaved like this - likely to do something else - he needs to learn a lesson about consequences of irrational behavior
“Sauced”
Like tomato sauce. To be fair, I think it was a pun.
Agreed
People need to be held accountable. Destroying another person’s property is not ok. I feel the same about the lime bikes being destroyed. A bit of a sociopathic behavior. How would that guy feel is someone walked by and knocked off the side view mirror to his BMW?
People, people
He's not excusing the action. He's making a pun.
Sometimes there are pun worthy stories. Some of you need to lighten up. Not about the tomato vandalism, which is wrong, but about the puns related to the tomato vandalism, which is as funny as any puns.
That's disgusting.
Malicious destruction of property is never excusable, but it's even less excusable when the property being destroyed is something that a person has taken tons of time and care to nurture. The owner should file a criminal harassment/vandalism complaint.
Well then..
Hopefully the police will ketchup with him sooner or later.
Maybe someone
Will just paste him one.
Or give him a solid kick
...in the love apples.
fair?
I live in a neighborhood where two "sauced" twenty somethings thought it would be fun to smash cars with cinderblocks. Unfortunately for them I called 911 and they both got arrested. You can get sauced all you want but you need take responsibility for what you do when sauced.
The vandal in question looks a lot sauced, to me!
Sheesh!
living in the city
i grew up in the city. this is the kind of thing that happens when no one knows or cares who their neighbors are. this problem isn't going to get better soon.
it can also happen when jaden, jaiden and brylee are away from NJ for the first time with fake IDs
Don't forget
Don't forget Brooklyn, Brooklynne, and Bella!
Having lived in that part of
Having lived in that part of Somerville- I've found the natives of the area to be a bigger source of the shenanigans around there than the student/ transient population
This is why AirBNB is bad.
This is why AirBNB is bad.
That is not a college student
Unless he waited ten years to enroll. That's an adult - one who still doesn't get the "actions have consequences" thing.
Sounds like he's about to learn that.
This is the kind of thing that can happen anywhere,
not just in the city, either.
I still remember growing up in an idyllic suburb 13 miles northwest of Boston, and, especially on Hallowe'en night, we'd occasionally have eggs and stuff like that thrown at our windows by kids who thought it was the spirit of Hallowe'en to vandalize. My parents would always lock the cars on Hallowe'en night, as well, for that reason.
Ummm...
You didn't grow up anywhere near Rahanis Park, did you? I grew up in a certain idyllic suburb 13 miles northwest of Boston, just up the street from that park, and it was ground zero for Halloween mayhem in the 80s and 90s....
idyllic suburbs
i’m sure towns like weston or wellesley have their fair share of eggings and shaving cream attacks but you have to go to a special place, like brighton or somerville, to have someone kick the mirrors off your car or take a shit on your back porch. Or maybe kick your tomatoes down the street?
At Tufts (presumably), the definition of farm-to-table
Only gets as far as the sidewalk...
What does this have to do with Tufts, again?
This is quite a ways from Tufts.
I hope the cops are seeing this and/or the guy's employer.
Idiot
You know this guy has done this before and will continue to do it. As an aside, my tomato crop was a dud this year. And it was a hot summer you'd figure they'd like the sun.
Odd weather.
Rain swelled mine not too long ago, a couple of them split, then the dry weather hit, then a fat groundhog dug at the wire fence.
Next week, I'm going to the damn farmer's market.
I made out ok, sorta
...but it was a lot of work. This summer was better for weeds than anything else. I have a neighbor who's renovating and so has completely left the front of the yard go (not much point when construction vehicles are coming and going), and he has weeds at least eight feet high.
I have to agree with you on
I have to agree with you on the weeds. I gave up trying to contain them. But, my tomatoes are fantastic this year. I am so pleased with my crop and must've picked about 20 more last night.
This year I used a micro biotic instead of fertilizer (Plant Tone). The young plants felt like plastic and were a very dark green like I never had before. I would recommend this product if you're interested.
I have a jungle now at this point and I'm not sure if it's related to the Plant Tone, but zucchinis and other squashes are abundant and my pumpkins are growing like an alien. If you know anything about pumpkins, you know how aggressive their vines are. I've got pumpkins growing in mid air from the vine, never had anything like this before.
But with that comes the weeds ...
Sorry to hear of a bad tomato crop, it's very frustrating but like any gardener, you're probably already planning next years crop.
Tomatoes, hot peppers, garlic
...all did decent. Shallots got kinda skunked because of all the rain (garlic got harvested before the month of rain). But the real winner is this one, single sugarbaby melon plant that has gone crazy and taken over everywhere. Went across the garden, up the fence, now I have a fence full of melons. I have to admire its spirit.
My sentence
I hereby sentence Brooklyn to one season of growing tomatoes. He must grow a minimum of 10 plants that yield at least 5 lbs of ripe fruit. Should the weather, asshole neighbors, cut worms, drought or lack of farming acumen cause him to fail, he will be fined $250.
10 plants 5 pounds?
Ten plants should get you a lot more than 5 pounds.
Ten full size tomato plants should get you a deluge of tomatoes!
It's the journey, not the yield
Very true. I set the bar low enough that he should be able to succeed, but also learn how much work it is to grow stuff.
Isn't Brooklyn a girl's name?
Isn't Brooklyn a girl's name? This is clearly the work of a Logan, a Tyler, or a Caleb.
Brooklyn Beckham is a dude
Even though his parents were insane in calling him that.
Rightful concern?
Perhaps he knows something we don't.
Maybe the plants were mutating and planning global domination.
Perhaps Attack of the Killer Tomatoes wasn't fiction...
I for one welcome our tomato overlords
.
Put him in the stocks on the
Put him in the stocks on the Common and toss rotten tomatoes at him.
Heirloom varieties, as required to be period correct with stocks.
Re: the stocks
I love the idea. There's probably even a law on the books from 1630 or so allowing it.
Love Apples
Looks like we need stocks after circa 1710 or so if tomatoes are part of the ammo.
Rotting cabbages are stinker and likely more injurious when thrown, I don't think he'd need much more than public shaming and teaching him to fear tomatoes.
Legal dueling
You can still legally duel to the death on the common on a Sunday if the governor is present!! https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2015/06/18/weird-laws-in-massachu...