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[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 39 points 10 months ago

“I encountered a contractor with a backhoe knocking down trees 50 feet inside my property line,” he said. “When I asked about the missing bees, the contractor said they had been moved by the landowner.”

Screw the bees. They’re fucking with his trees. Give me some tree law!

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago
[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Its no joke. The bee's might be a minor fine but tree law is real and its extremely costly.

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

They're going after him for lost wages so it'll be $50-100k just for that. Hiring a lawyer was smart.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Screw the bees. They’re fucking with his trees.

Hear this man's pleas! Break the thief's knees!

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago

Treble damages!!!! I wanna see em!

[-] ajmaxwell@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Theft. Property damage. Trespassing.

Why wasn't the neighbor arrested and charged for those crimes?

[-] another_being@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago
[-] PapaSkwat@lemmings.world -2 points 10 months ago

That's a good question.

[-] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Come on people, fuck! I almost never complain about bad headline gramnar, though it is rampant. It seems to be just something you have to live with these days.

The sentence has two subject/predicate pairs: "beekeeper loses," and "neighbor has." So when it comes time for the possessive pronoun "his"... who the fuck is that?

Many would say you should avoid this pronoun altogether. But if you are determined to use it, please at least make it refer to the last mentioned subject!

This story would be very different (and not much of a story at all) if the neighbor had beehives removed from the neighbor's own property, which is what the headline literally says.

[-] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Thank you, I was sitting here wondering why this was a bad thing? I would do the same thing… “get your shit off of my property”.

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

The irony of misspelling 'grammar' is pretty funny

[-] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

Misspelling, especially when typing on a phone, is orders of magnitude less egregious than the gramner problem in the headline.

[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

My gramnar has always been terrible. 🤪

[-] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

Mine, on thd other hanf, is prefect, though my speling is not.

[-] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Don't fuck with a man's bees. Hope the hive owner's neighbor gets stung on his ass.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago
[-] PapaSkwat@lemmings.world -1 points 10 months ago
[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Oh Honey! I'm finally back from getting milk

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 4 points 10 months ago

“I encountered a contractor with a backhoe knocking down trees 50 feet inside my property line,” he said. “When I asked about the missing bees, the contractor said they had been moved by the landowner.”

Screw the bees. They’re fucking with his trees. Give me some tree law!

this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2025
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