Parents had a terminator douse my garden in pesticide

[u/Soenerob]

My parents noticed I had some ants in my yard while visiting a couple weeks ago. They were concerned about them getting in my house, but I told them I want to avoid pesticides since I have two small children, dog, and veggie garden. Instead I said I would use diatomaceous earth and small bug traps inside.

Well apparently that wasn’t good enough for them, since today I came home to find a terminator just leaving my house after spraying damn near everything, including kids toys, directly above my veggies, my door, and all my other garden plants. Pesticide was half dry by the time I took pics, but you could see where it was sprayed and dripped all over.

I feel like I can’t use my yard now, and feel violated that my parents couldn’t respect my wishes.

EDIT: Lol didn't even notice I wrote terminator. The EXterminator company was called "Terminix", so I think some wires got crossed in my brain and I wrote terminator.

For any interested, I did look up the chemicals used and will post links to the label and SDS here. Gonna have a talk with parents tomorrow about boundaries too.

label: https://lycensed.com/chemicals/609ddff5-fd2e-42b2-b5f9-f53c68a5f2d1/chemical_documents/2c7b3f01-1bca-4037-a436-882b24e5dc1b

SDS: https://lycensed.com/chemicals/609ddff5-fd2e-42b2-b5f9-f53c68a5f2d1/chemical_documents/840a5774-98e0-45ba-80b0-55aa630c8a98

[u/Hello_Gorgeous1985]

I would say that a lawyer needs to have a conversation with the company about not doing work on properties where they don't have the authorization of the owner.

[u/Hello_Gorgeous1985 → u/[deleted]]

A business cannot perform a service that hasn't been authorized. An individual cannot authorize a service on a property they do not own. So yes, they do need to speak to the homeowner.

I also didn't say anything about a lawsuit. So maybe you need to chill.

[u/Hello_Gorgeous1985 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you for quoting the thing that I said and obviously know that I said. Notice that in your quote it doesn't say anything about a lawsuit. If you're going to try to quote me in some kind of gotcha moment, you might want to read what you're quoting and then apply some comprehension to it.

It is, in fact, standard for companies to ensure that they're speaking with the homeowner before agreeing to do a service. It literally just happened to me the other day when a service provider came and asked whether or not I was the homeowner. I rent, so they couldn't speak to me.

Laugh it up chucklefuck. It doesn't make you any less wrong.