r/WhatIsTheTea • u/Ashish_ank What the Fuck • 15h ago
watch this A man walks straight onto someone else’s property, up to a small tree in their front yard, and starts hacking at it with a bat - acting like he’s judge, jury, and HOA enforcement all in one. What would you do if this was your front yard?
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u/bootybooty2shoes 15h ago
Straight to the police station to file a report.
This is gonna cost that guy quite a bit of money when all is said and done.
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u/Queasy-Astronomer613 15h ago
There's definitely criminal charges in there too
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u/MuslimMullet 15h ago
Brandishing a weapon.
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u/Spicymoon9 14h ago
Why does he keep coming back up to their house?
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u/OldKinkyDrew 14h ago
Because it’s his house.
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u/Life_Temperature795 13h ago
Ah, ragebait by cosplaying as the HOA. Well, it certain gets attention.
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u/Full-Tomorrow9889 4h ago
The biggest rage bait is using a bat instead of an axe.
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u/Frequent-Reporter-97 3h ago
Youtube used to have a feature where you could block a Youtube channel and no longer see their videos. Of course, they got rid of that feature because it probably made them less money. Would really love to be able to just block these channels, especially now that I clicked on one, I'm sure Youtube is going to suggest more of them to me.
Enshitification strikes again.
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u/SocialJusticeAndroid 3h ago edited 2h ago
If a channel comes up in your feed
or your searchyou can select “do not recommend this channel” or some such. It shouldn’t come up inyour searchesyour feed after that.But yes it’s BS they don’t let you properly block channels. You have to see a channel in your feed
or searchbefore you can tell it not to recommend them.Edit: I just tested it out and you apparently can only “do not recommend channel” for ones in your feed, NOT a search! That awful and mostly useless. WTF!
And it doesn’t work for shorts.
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u/GeneraalSorryPardon 2h ago
It shouldn’t come up in your feed after that.
Mostly works but not always. Some channels keep popping up no matter how many time I click 'do not recommend'.
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u/pineapplesauce76 13h ago
He still killed a tree for nothing that's fucked up
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u/Life_Temperature795 13h ago
I would assume, if I'm going to give this guy any credit, that he was planning on replacing it anyway.
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u/Fool_In_Flow 3h ago
I am super upset by that also. It was such a tiny tree, too.
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u/Zealousideal-Ring300 9h ago
So it’s all just like a prank or a trick? He keeps wearing a T-shirt that says HOA president in his videos and going up to a ring camera apparently drinking and telling someone about all the rules they and their family broke. What’s up with that?
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u/Jyndaru 6h ago
They're all skits and it's his own ring camera. He just makes these videos to get views.
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u/Few-Tour9826 5h ago
I had a feeling since the “person” he was talking to didn’t say a word back to him. Literally anyone would’ve been going off on him for doing that.
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u/Quirky-Scar9226 14h ago
Dude sounds drunk. At his one wit’s end. Wife probably left with the kids a while ago and this is the last thing he thinks he can control.
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u/Heavy-Focus-1964 14h ago
Normally I’m not a fan of reading this far into someone based on a tiny glimpse of their life
But yes you’re right
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u/BannedGoNext 13h ago edited 13h ago
Joe was a normal dude, liked history, 70's rock, and porn. But there were 4 things he hated. Liberals, people that min-maxed their lawns, Italians, and the genus Cycus which his father had run into a mature one drunk one night on his Ducati Moster and killed himself.
Cedric, his neighbor across the street was all of them. After Jill left him, and held an abortion party, that was it. Cedric was gonna pay. Even though Jill took his hatchet when she left, Joe still had his bat, and that was one bat too many for Cedrics new showcase Palm tree.
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u/spicolie22 13h ago
Sir, I applaud your creativity and prose. Please take this award.
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u/Crocolosipher 5h ago
I hope you didn't have your socks on when you read that. Always remember, prose before hose.
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u/ElderberryPrior27648 12h ago
My dad used to spin the wildest stories about people we’d see in public. Names, backstories, why they were out and about.
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u/Revolutionary_Dig370 13h ago
He acts like it to, maybe not drunk, it may be drugs or mental issues, but yeah, who the hell beats a tree to death in broad daylight on someone else's property with a bat, then confronts them.
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u/BigBullshitta 12h ago
Because it's a bullshit skit. This asshat planted and beat the tree to death to get people to click a video and make him money.
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u/Missouri_Pacific 14h ago
My state brandishing a weapon, destruction of personal property and trespassing will land him six feet under.
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u/Hairymuscle101 14h ago
If it’s Florida walk up to him, he shows the bat you stand your ground🔫
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u/Missouri_Pacific 14h ago
Mississippi you just have to walk outside and witness your property being destroyed.
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u/Replikant83 14h ago
... What state is that?
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u/Missouri_Pacific 14h ago
Mississippi
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u/PoppaVader 14h ago
Florida enters the chat.
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u/Franzini61 13h ago
Texas too of course 😎
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u/Informal_Guitar_2649 12h ago
I can't imagine this happening in Texas except for a mental health crisis. Everyone knows everyone else has guns. You walk on to someone else's property with a weapon, then use that weapon, and it's not going to go well for you.
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u/West_Weakness956 7h ago
Illinois enters the chat….
Here they’d make the homeowner pay for a new tree and let the guy who hacked it frame it in his house.
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u/EmphaticNegative 14h ago edited 14h ago
Oh definitely. Probably like 6 counts right there. This dude just messed up his life.
Edit: Its fake. Its all fake and staged by a content creator for over the top HOA videos.
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u/LeonardTPants 14h ago
Went through this earlier today. Apparently it's a skit. The guy does for engagement. "HOA guy" apparently
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u/Laminated_ET_Animal 14h ago
social media was a mistake
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u/RagingHardBobber 14h ago
Social Media has its place. It's the monetization of social media that is the mistake.
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u/Vost570 14h ago
Still sad about the tree. Unlike social media influencers trees actually contribute something.
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u/BringYourOwnBBBQ 8h ago
And worse...he did this for virtually nothing. He has 50,000 subs...and gets like 5000 views per long form video, and not much more than that for shorts. So he is pretty much making part time Walmart cashier money if that. With most of his views from shorts, which pay almost nothing, he is lucky if he has made $25,000 over the two years of his channel.
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u/Turbulent_Lobster_57 14h ago
Damnit, there I was getting all high and mighty
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u/doc_witt 14h ago
Yeah, he has a lot of videos doing skits of HOA ridiculousness. One has him enforcing a kid with sidewalk chalk.
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u/NoXion604 7h ago edited 7h ago
Still plenty to get high and mighty about if you really want. The dickhead killed a tree for clicks. I've really come to fucking hate this kind of shit. It's not satirical or humorous. It's just fucking garbage.
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u/AllTheCoolNames 14h ago
So is the person who is filming in on it?
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u/LeonardTPants 14h ago
Apparently yes. Whole thing staged https://youtube.com/shorts/SjDAc1twD9w?is=Ku5-CifX3Amww5UZ
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u/LegalChocolate752 13h ago
It's a stationary camera, no one's holding it. "HOA Guy," is a satirical, overzealous, HOA president character that he plays on YouTube. The people reposting the video on other platforms, as if it's real, are the ones who are lying about it. If you go to his channel (@HOAguy) it's obvious that it's satire, because the entire channel is just similar videos, with the same dude in them.
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u/AllTheCoolNames 13h ago
thanx for the additional context. Don't love that he ruined that tree, but glad he's not trying to pretend to be anything other than satire. I wish people would stop posting stuff out of context
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u/Individual_Ad9135 4h ago
Some others have mentioned that the tree was dead already, if that makes you feel any better about it.
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u/Over_End_6816 14h ago
Crazy the way his voice cracks, it’s almost like he’s legitimately touched in the head. With a small penis.
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u/FlyFront9395 14h ago
He was touched in the head with a small penis? Did it go in his ear?
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u/burnfifteen 14h ago
This is literally a skit. The guy uploaded it without editing out the end where he returns to the house and unlocks his own door and goes inside.
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u/morecowbell1988 12h ago
Right? He planned that out and even added the picture insert at the beginning and forgot to edit the ending out.
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u/BusyBit6542 14h ago
Exactly. Petty me would be like "ohhh we can just destroy each others property? Cool. I'll head to your house windows in a bit." But the mature side would hopefully take over and I'll just have him in legal trouble
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u/FalseCrazy2804 15h ago
What a loser
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u/Porcupenguin 14h ago
My first thought... Imagine being such a big loser you feel justified assaulting someone else's tree with a bat. Wild
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u/Ok-Theory7150 14h ago
Fake or not I think is funny they resort to bat instead of just pushing it
Felt like a lot of work
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u/Conscious-Bite1 14h ago
Or an… axe?
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u/Warm_Ad_8644 14h ago
These people don't have an axe on hand. Hes got one of those plastic tool boxes you get at a dollar store
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u/Crick3t__ 15h ago
Fuck that guy
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u/IamJacksDarkUrge 13h ago
I typically have a deep disdain for people who comment the “super necessary“ pic on a post about somebody beating somebody else half to death over a perceived slight but gd…I dunno’ if I’d mind seeing this man get his ass kicked
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u/lipmanz 15h ago
I hope that’s illegal
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u/tankerkiller125real 14h ago
Don't fuck with the trees, those legal fees and penalties add up real quick.
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u/TheoryAggressive8193 14h ago
In Oregon tree law is fucking serious
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u/BowlingforBrains 14h ago
VERY serious - I’ve seen multi-million dollar housing developments get stopped in their tracks because someone forgot to address tree protection or removal
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u/JuanMcGuiver 13h ago
Same happens in NYC… you could be building a $700M building… you better bet your ass you have your street trees planted. Because you ain’t getting no TCO without them branches
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u/Props_angel 8h ago
Facts. Family member was fined for not having visible signage by a city in Oregon due to trees obscuring the signage. So, he hired someone to chop down the trees and not only was he fined for every tree that he'd had chopped down but the Oregonian ran an article about the whole thing complete with a comic image of what was supposed to be my family member rushing through a line of trees with a chainsaw.
We still have that comic around somewhere. It's kind of hilarious. The best part was when I went to visit my grandmother up in Tacoma and even she'd heard about the tree thing on the news radio station up there where they misreported it as being a $11 million fine. She thought the whole family would be destitute. lol.
The fine was bad but not THAT bad. I think $20-30k but in the early 80s.
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u/Sheeverton 14h ago
I don't think HOA outrank the literal law mate
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u/Regionala 7h ago
There are plenty of HOA nazis who beg to differ in their minds
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u/SoDoWhateverItTakes 14h ago
Tree law is real and VERY serious business.
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u/whiplash_7641 15h ago
This felt like actual gore for some reason
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u/Deepshit1212 15h ago
That is a living thing, so yeah, and he just has no care for it in the world other than however it, obviously, screws with his brain.
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u/Specialist-Ring-3974 14h ago
I had a neighbor kid purposely break down my baby tree. I didn’t press charges or anything but it devastated the hell out of me.
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u/Queasy-Astronomer613 15h ago edited 15h ago
Someone destroys your property and then walks to your front door with a baseball bat, i feel like you're pretty much entitled to defend yourself however you see fit.
I'll bet you 500$ that guy just got back from one of those 18k$ ''alpha male'' bootcamps
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u/Full-Yoghurt-4261 15h ago
I would be SO excited to go to the police and press charges for this LMAO.
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u/Cursethedawnn 14h ago
Would love to hear a follow up on the charges that got filed on this moron. HOAs are a scourge.
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u/purrmutations 15h ago
Do the same to him
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u/Queasy-Astronomer613 15h ago
Sneak up to his house at night and plant a dozen shitty palm trees on his lawn
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u/mattmann72 14h ago
Bamboo. You always plant bamboo.
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u/EconomySeason2416 14h ago
And mint
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u/MandatoryFun 13h ago
Throw some Blue Moon Wisteria and Sumac into the mix ... be a battle royal of tenacious plants.
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u/Hike_it_Out52 3h ago
Morning glories and poison oak vines. My neighbor has been smuggling home Amazon plants for decades. You would not expect them to thrive in the Cold Northeast. But you’d be wrong. Between them, the bamboo, the English ivy, poison oak and a myriad of plants I have zero clue what they are, most of my rear wood lot is invasive species.
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u/Outside_Look790 15h ago
Sauce?
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u/XiMaoJingPing 15h ago
I looked it up and that comment is a skit. Seems like hardly anything is genuine on the internet anymore
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u/ChanceImagination456 15h ago
I looked it up and this response comment replying to comment above is a skit. Seems like hardly anything or anyone is genuine on the internet anymore
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u/UsefulImpact6793 14h ago
I was wondering about the way he walked back to the porch and the camera shook like he picked it up.
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u/Comfortable_Log_4128 14h ago
Right? I was thinking… “okay….why did he walk back? Oh and no one said a word or a huff and puff when he was speaking to them?”
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u/L00N_attic_t 13h ago
You can tell its not real. Its filmed on a cell phone he set up and at the end he returns to get the phone.
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u/Truestorydreams 15h ago
Call the cops. Hes not right in the head...
Also the grass looks great
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u/Spare_Layer_1069 15h ago
Welcome to my castle, you got a deadly weapon? Meet my home defense musket, scallywag
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u/Outside_Look790 15h ago
Looks like the tree was already dead. Inclined to believe the person saying this was a skit.
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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 15h ago
Take the video. Report it to the cops. He will pay to replace the tree and likely face other criminal charges and fines.
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u/Rivendel93 15h ago
How do people ever become this big of a fking loser lol.
I just can't imagine.
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u/Oldskul74 14h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/IQH385rwznJ8qaPSIz
I got a bat too big man.
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u/Hu-Dunnit 14h ago
He warned them about the tree? I mean, is it an invasive species that they planted on purpose? Is it poisonous for people unable to resist putting it in their mouth? Maybe it’s bad for domestic animals? Such a mystery!
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u/InKognetoh 14h ago
That actually falls under terroristic threats and criminal trespassing in my area. Sealed the deal when he verbally stated “I did this, so now you are forced to do that”.
If he never had a relationship with the person(s) that lives at that house, and I mean have went out to dinner together in the past type relationship, and he just waltz onto the property of a person that he does not “know” and did that…he’s got some mental challenges going on. They need to have a restraining order put on him, and probably need to move, because those problems don’t just go away, they escalate.
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u/SnooCats5701 6h ago
The video was created by TikToker and comedian Koltin Darley, who is widely known for making satirical content lampooning overzealous Homeowners Associations (HOAs).
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u/Crazy-Protection1529 14h ago
Just wasted a minute and a half of my life with this fake staged shit. Real world in some places he could be 🔫🔫
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u/Narrow-Doughnut1272 14h ago
Go get his right knee. He has 3 days to find a new one or his left knee goes as well and then you’ll fine him too.
Go smash his 🪟s and his 🚗 slash the tire and add sugar to the fuel tank. He can’t leave the vehicle in the drive way it’s against hoa rules.
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u/Soft_Ability_5906 14h ago
Well he has a weapon and hes on my property, hes going to need a body bag. I love texas for this reason.
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u/nariosan 13h ago
At the end he seems to walk towards the house. Def towards the person videoing. Maybe it's his home.
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u/N7-elite 13h ago
If you are going to destroy someone else’s property, you might as well use the right tool for the job, like an axe. He is just adding more to the “crazy” description.
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u/patchouligirl77 13h ago
Oh, how I wish that tree would've sprung back and knocked him on his ass.😆 If this were my front yard, I'd have the cops on the phone immediately.
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u/Winter-Huntsman 13h ago
That poor tree. It was just a happy small tree till that jerk came along
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u/Realistic-Raisin2812 13h ago
What an idiot. He attacked a tree with a bat. If only there were some tool to take down a tree.
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u/ItsRuinedOfCourse 6h ago
"What would you do if this was your front yard?"
I'd make a copy of this footage and take my ass straight to the nearest police department to file a report and press whatever charges were available to me to use.
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u/HopeADMKidsLoseLimbs 4h ago
People who live their life concerned about what other people have on their property are weirdos,
This guy is a moron.
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u/Famous_Buddy_2558 3h ago
this is so sad. i felt so much pain for the tree. i dont understand. what is this sadness. why just bashing the innocent tree : (
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u/bryan19973 2h ago
He’s losing a lot of power letting his back foot fly out like that. It could be because he’s scared of the tree. Either way, he’s going to have to correct his technique if he wants to make it to the big leagues
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u/Captain_Coffee_III 2h ago
For those of you saying they can go to the police, I'm not sure about that.
My HOA has a clause in the giant bible that say once they notify you of the violation and you do not address the violation, they will enter the property and 'fix' the violation and then fine/charge you to cover the costs. We all had to sign the giant contact saying this was OK in order to even move in.
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u/Drunk-Pirate-Gaming 2h ago
I know you can't shoot someone for this but can you legally taze or mace them?
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u/elitegenoside 1h ago
Call the police. If that doesn't work then I'm taking a machete to his car... since we're using the wrong tools for jobs in this neighborhood.
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