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[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have a friend who would eventually become a stunt man, but well before that and fresh out of school/home, he found traffic cones on his street one day. At night he'd climb these huuuuge pine trees—we're talking around triple or more above powerline height and taller than most apartment buildings nearby—and place one right on top.

This would go on for several months, climbing a new one every couple weeks and a new cone.

Eventually this caused so much confusion, the city news and papers covered it. People didn't know what was going on, think council was marking trees for cutting, police were patrolling at night. Never got busted.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

That article is great! I loved the cool headed "insider" they interviewed.

A council insider, who used to work on that beat, said "a long piece of plastic piping does the trick."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Nah, different country and years before—probably around 2007 and hard to find an article back them for it. Also, definitely taller trees haha.

Later he'd regularly climb one of the city's landmark bridges that had decorative lights on it and turn them on or off and change their colours; that caused another whole thing in the news. The bridge would be lit blue or pink for different respective awarenesses. Then just on a random date for no reason it's lit red or green.

He did get arrested on it once, but because he got seen and cornered, they thought he was a jumper. They never put it together and had do do therapy sessions, but no fines or time.

Things like this and a lot of gymnastics and srunt acenes he slowly collected and put into a reel. Sent it off to LA and next thing we know he's doing stunts in huge films we all know, but I won't mention for anonymity. Dude's got a very extensive iMDB page now, though.

[–] southsamurai 57 points 8 months ago (4 children)

People do this, for real.

There's also people that spread seeds of various plants.

Alas, not all of them do their research. You gotta do native plants, in the right zones for them, if you want it to be something positive.

I said that to someone I used to know that would go around throwing pot seeds anywhere he was going. He said that pot is always a positive. He's an idiot, obviously, which is part of why he's someone I used to know.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

He said that pot is always a positive.

Ecosystem wise, he is uninformed.

Societally, he may have a point. Back in the day people could lose their property due to wild pot growing. Was this a real issue, or something we thought pre-internet? I don't know. But it is hard to take property when pot grows everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The amount of invasive mustard plants I find in my neighborhood is so frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Are you saying that pot can be an invasive species?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Any living thing can be an invasive species.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Only non native things can be invasive. That said, pot isn't native to the us I think.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not if it grew in the wild there for millions of years

[–] southsamurai 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Apparently central Asia. I was mistaken, I thought it had been growing in the wild on much of the earth. Probably got that from a stoner friend 20 years ago lol

[–] southsamurai 2 points 8 months ago

No worries :)

I even saw the same thing in a high times back in the nineties, that it was everywhere except Europe, iirc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I helped out at an extremely rural farm in Nebraska and cutting out wild pot plants was a somewhat regular duty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

That was most likely hemp. I got fooled in Nebraska by some growing wild along a highway. My friend and I smoked a bunch and just got a headache. That's when we remembered that hemp cultivation was pretty common in the US prior to the 1900s

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Man pets could have eaten those and gotten sick 😳

[–] rustydrd 54 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Unless I'm mistaken, the proper word for this is guerilla gardening (Wikipedia). Although that movement does mostly flowers and crops.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I've heard of problem doing that with trees. Careful though. Landscapers pick shallow root trees because they wont damage buried city infrastructure like data, power, water and sewer lines.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (4 children)

You might wanna sit down for this. Ready?

Unbelievably shitty, unimaginative punchline

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Just leaf it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I think they were aware of the shitty punchline and used that sentence deliberately, which made it funny to me.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago

Thank goodness someone is saying it, this is some Pizza Cake tier shit

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

People really think they’re comedic geniuses

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It’s almost as though comedy is subjective.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It doesn’t even make what I said invalid.

People really do think they’re comedic geniuses

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It's not so much that they think they are funny, more the absolute build up. It's presumptuous.

Saying things like "you might need to sit down" sets up the line for disappointment. There's no way it can be as funny as it promises.

The pun is sound, but the hyperbolic framing let's it down.

And if it was so funny your legs go weak, then it doesn't need the build up in the first place.

I think this type of social media framing belongs in the same category as videos that have text all over them saying "wait until the end!!!". The video loops around and you think, "what did I miss, was that what we were all waiting for?"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

That sounds like "anti tree fascists".

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m up for illegal Final Fantasy playing

AnTifa

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

"Aunt Tifa" was right there

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

That mic drop was more of a "plink", but not a bad idea

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes, rebuilding (ie allowing them to recover) ecosystems by force!

Stop land repurposing, let things go derelict, plant trees, fungi, flowers, etc to get things started.

Maybe let a tree accidentally fall on a hunter killing apex predators, land developers, oil people, etc. Or can we just bioengineer a swamp thing? What could go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Seedbombs are a thing already

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Antreefarm Is eben better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Image Transcription: Twitter Posts


Sergio, @ResisterSiano

Hear me out - a movement where we illegally plant trees everywhere and refuse to stop.

You might wanna sit down for this. Get ready. Are you ready?

Antreefa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

We should sit down and try to design a 3D printable seedbomb projectile injector that doesn't look enough like a gun to get us shot by the heehaws.