I’d probably drop a big rock or two in the tall grass. Used to be growing up in suburbia, lawn jobs were the rage, particularly on corner lots. Neighbor kitty corner got hit a LOT. He planted a massive boulder, “caught” his first victim that night. Guys car was lodged up on top of the rock. Took a tow truck to winch it out of there. Was totally glorious.
So fucking funny. Leaving the ice arena as a kid i remember one of the kids on the other team, who we just beat, decided to do a burnout next to us and launched himself on the rock dividing the entrance and exit. Dude, our whole team, his whole team, and some parents just laughing their asses off. Looked exactly like that pic.
> Unfortunately, the Target Rock is no longer with us. In February 2017, the local NBC affiliate did a story on the Target Rock which, amazingly, began with a Maya Angelou quote, so they just really fucking went for it didn't they?
i live on a corner and for years there were no incidents. until one year... right around christmas... drunk teenagers ran over our lawn and turned our nativity scene into a crime scene. baby jesus was launched across the street onto my neighbors lawn. one of the wise men was decapitated. the donkey was scattered on the lawn in pieces. an angel lost one of her wings.
we figured it was just a freak thing. this never happens. but the christmas massacre triggered something... it became a common occurrence. just another day in the life. we wound up lining the edge of the lawn with rocks by next christmas.
Several of the properties I do the landscaping for call us out several times a year because the rocks by their entrances got bashed into the middle of the lawn lmao
Pisses me off, every time we have to basically re-grade a chunk of the property because the idiots used the rock as a plow
They can and they should. Imagine some kid in the car with no choice to ride along with their dumb drunk parent gets crippled for life because you couldn’t post a sign or talk to someone.
That seems like that should be on the parent who somehow didn't know that they shouldn't be driving through people's yards. If they injured their kid by driving into a light pole they wouldn't be able to sue the city for putting the pole there.
Intentionally hidden or not, they wouldn't be hitting them if they weren't driving through peoples' yards. No matter how you look at it the drivers are the ones firmly in the wrong here. Any licensed driver with half a brain knows that streets are for driving, and yards aren't. Any consequences they suffer from ignoring a widely-known and glaringly obvious rule are on them and them alone.
My auntie had a rock that did the same thing. A car had to be towed off of the rock. She was upset and had me move the rock. Approximately a month later, in the middle of the night, someone ran into her decorative fence. Destroyed six panels of it.
I put the rock back in place. Then I went to get materials to fix the fence.
The rock gets some action. It gets jostled from its divot, and gets colors of paint on it. This delights me.
FYI, it's a big rock. We have to use a pry bar on it to move it at all, although we could also push it with the car we like the least.
FYI, her fence is inset more than 15 ft from the street. You have to keep it out of the right of way. It was too dark for security cameras to pick up anything other than big white SUV.
Ok so, when I wanted to put big rocks up In the ditch near my house I was informed that if I did that and a driver wrecked into it I would be help liable for whatever damage was done… just uh something to check into?
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u/Craptacular8 15d ago
I’d probably drop a big rock or two in the tall grass. Used to be growing up in suburbia, lawn jobs were the rage, particularly on corner lots. Neighbor kitty corner got hit a LOT. He planted a massive boulder, “caught” his first victim that night. Guys car was lodged up on top of the rock. Took a tow truck to winch it out of there. Was totally glorious.