You know, if you happen to be the owner of a lemon tree so large that it dangles over the side of your fence, causing the excess ripened fruit to daily go *splat* on the public sidewalk, it would be a really nice courtesy to your neighbors and other people who have to make use of this pathway on a regular basis if you considered cleaning that rotten shit up. Speaking in complete generalities, of course.
Posted by Emily at July 18, 2006 05:27 PM | TrackBack (0) |Of course.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at July 18, 2006 06:01 PMKen,
This is one of those said generalized moments where I am seriously considering forfitting meals in order to afford a digital camera to document the non-offensive, general situation that probably infests every street in America. It's a half a block of rotten fucking lemons. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
They could just put up a net while the fruit is ripe.
Posted by: aaron at July 18, 2006 07:46 PMOh, I definitely understand. Same on some streets in my neighborhood.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at July 18, 2006 08:52 PMCall the Enviromental Protection Agency. All that acid being dumped on the streets...tsk-tsk. Make them pay.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at July 19, 2006 04:40 AMOf course, the Environmental folks would probably answer the phone first...
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at July 19, 2006 04:41 AMNot that I'm bitter or anything.
Classic. Outstanding on so many levels.
What a shocking waste of lemons! We got hold of some ripe lemons once (once), and they made the most terrific lemonade. Better than the little useless lemons you get in the store.
I used to live on a street where olives were the problem. Squished olives for three blocks. Of course, they're smaller than lemons.
We also had the occasional kamikaze palm frond. Not really dangerous, but startling.
Posted by: Angie Schultz at July 19, 2006 08:08 AMThat's part of what bugs me about it, Angie. I keep hoping to pass by and catch a few after they've fallen, but I'm usually around that area after the kids coming home from school have passed and they take a big delight out of pouncing on the things to squish them.
Posted by: Emily at July 19, 2006 08:18 AMThey should donate them to a homeless shelter... ;-) I understand lemon-halves were used in ancient Egypt as diaphrams.
I could lean out the window and take a picture of bloated lemons like that, but I go and grab the lemons and take them home. If it's over the wall into public space or another private space it becomes free-use.
In Italy they have weird community-property laws like: if you've harvested freebies from a tree branch that hangs over a wall for X-many years, the owner *can't* disturb you or the tree, and in fact after X-many years, the householder with the tree **owes** you the output from that branch/tree. F*ing Europeans.
TECHnically, I suppose the miscreants could argue that, since it is an acidualized fruit mass, they are actually bio-sanitizing the sidewalk through the ::ahem:: fruit of their labor.
I mean, they COULD argue it.
I'm just saying they COULD.
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