By Anonymous - 05/12/2014 13:44 - United States - San Bruno

Today, my neighbor showed me footage of my 7-year-old son spraying his beloved rose garden with weed killer. The whole garden is dead as fuck, and I'm now being taken to small claims court. FML
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BI4ze 17

How would a 7 year old get access to weed killer?

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smokecloud_ 37

He's 7. He should know right from wrong and to stay out of other people's property. Rose gardens aren't cheap and the neighbor probably spent a lot of time on it. I'd be pissed too, 7 year old or not.

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TessTickles 8

CPS should be called on you. You can't leave a 7-year-old child unsupervised. Expecially around chemicals/poisons.

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thurak126 0

Seriously? When I was 7 or younger my parents let me take myself to the park by myself to make friends with who ever was there at the time. Usually I would go s few times a week. When I was 5 I would play in the road/front garden. There was a very low speed limit with signs saying children playing.

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mimii00 10

I often wonder if people who leave comments like this, even have children. I watch my daughter like a hawk, but leave her safely in her playroom for one second while heaven forbid I go take a pee, and she's climbing something, or finding the one thing she can't have that I forgot to put away, or breaking the child locks off the drawers. It only takes a second for something to happen. Don't be a dick and make a parent feel worse then I'm sure they already do.

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Rababco 29

Parents can't watch their kids all the time. My brothers and I would play outside or in the basement when we were younger and our parents didn't watch us constantly. I do agree that OP needs to keep chemicals, like weedkiller out of his son's reach. He may have been trying to help his neighbor by killing the weeds and not understanding that it would kill the roses too. This means the son doesn't understand the harm these chemicals can do and shouldn't be allowed near them.

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TessTickles 8

learn from your mistakes.

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amira101 20

Plot twist: Neighbor bought the weed killer, thinking it was going to only kill the weeds not the roses. After realizing, in fact it destroys everything around it. See's 7-year-old, asks the child to help with the garden, gives the child the weed killer, casually taping while smirking, so he doesn't pay for his mistake.

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mwangi101 15

I think this kid took practical jokes too far, but if this kid isn't smart enough to know who he's messing with and what he's messing with, he's probably not as smart as you try make all 7 year olds seem. Plus with all the time it took to do this no one bothered to check on him, and that's concerning if he's constantly misbehaving like this. I think in end everyone has a valid point, but it's all in the eye of the beholder.

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Sugar_ray17 3

why did the neighbor just sit and record instead of stopping him? Who's really at fault here

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Thorzix 23

Probably has some security camera system around his house.

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rocker_chick23 27

There are these nifty things called security camera's. They show film footage, so chances are OP's neighbor had one.

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Buddalish 9

I want to know why the neighbor just stood there and filmed it! He deserves to have his garden destroyed if he didn't want to do anything about it ?

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jewelia13 12

He didn't have to be "standing right there", it could very easily be security camera footage.

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clemsi 20

I want to know why the neighbor recorded the kid doing that instead of stopping him.

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floyyd 2

I'm sorry but as a gardener... CONTROL YOUR CHILDREN.

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Morning_fml 22

Well, I'm assuming that the garden was most likely more than halfway dead by the time the neighbour spotted the kid, and he probably got there right in time to take physical evidence of the act at the very least so it would be easier for him to provide proof in court.

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GirasolNegro 22

I get that the child is 7, but I also agree with the neighbor taking the case to court, as OP's story says, the WHOLE garden was ruined, not just a few flowers. On top of the monetary costs of what the kid did, and the killing of all the bushes, there's also the possibility of health implications if the neighbor is allergic to the chemicals.

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