I think that 'street fruit' is a great resource. There are many fruit trees in neighborhoods that are under harvested, with piles of 'ground fruit.' I've always played by the rule that if I could reach it from the sidewalk, and it was overflowing, I would take some. For sure though, don't harm the fruit-producing plant, or any property surrounding it, because that's not considerate.
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#92Interesting but (at least in my area) I wouldn't eat anything growing in bushes (like berries). The amount of leashed dogs I see peeing all over them makes me gag just thinking about it.
Low fruit does carry that risk.
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#93Food is always free. We pay for human labor not food itself.
Tell that to every grocery store.
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#94Ironic that you have to pay $3.99 for the iOS app.
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#95I'm going to be the cynic here and assign a high probability that eventually the insiders running the site will keep the really good spots to themselves, e.g., make it so that information about the really good spots is visible to the user id or IP address that uploaded the information and to the insiders, but not to the general public. In the 1994, the last time I had information about them, the employees of the San…
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds less about your fruit trees or your truck, and more about your trashy neighbors looking at you as lower status, perhaps because you were a renter, or childless, or the way you look.
I don't think it was that, to me, it sounds like much the same entitlement thinking that is sweeping most of the developed world these days. "Aren't I entitled to your stuff? Aren't I entitled to have everything done my way? How dare you try to do things your way with your stuff?"
I saw a post on NextDoor where a woman was complaining that a retired couple had asked her not to let her dog poop on their yard. She expected them to put up a fence to keep her dog out. Apparently being asked was not only not enough but also an affront. She called them “entitled” because they drove a Mercedes and had a house.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just guessing the talk with the kids might have gone a little different than what was recounted. Sounds all rational and even-tempered. Perhaps some scolding or yelling was involved. We always remember ourselves as being perfectly polite in recounting stories.
Some parents are ready to fight you if you merely talk to their kids. Even more if you touch them -- like when you take away the chef's knife from the unattended five year old waving it around in the store. Also, if a story was miscommunicated I imagine it was the kids talking to their parents: "Everything was normal until this old guy flipped out." They probably never mentioned the dented hood and by the time the pa…
As a strategy against these kind of kids and people, I recommend bypassing. Do not talk to the kids. Take pictures, go to the parents directly.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm so lost; what is your point?
I'm not the OP or at all involved in this thread until now, but fruit trees will yield fruit again and again, a car will not. Now, if you owned the means of production for a Model T and I took a Model T, how upset would you be? That's more like "taking an apple" since you own the "tree"
Also not in this thread until now, but two thoughts:
First: A car can be "the means of production", if you're a driver for Uber/Lyft.
Second: the issue I understand is that this website isn't letting one person take fruit from a tree, but treating all such things as open invitations for all persons to take from the tree. To your analogy, that isn't taking a single Model T car, but seizing the factory and stating you're making cars for the entire city with it.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not the OP or at all involved in this thread until now, but fruit trees will yield fruit again and again, a car will not. Now, if you owned the means of production for a Model T and I took a Model T, how upset would you be? That's more like "taking an apple" since you own the "tree"
Also not in this thread until now, but two thoughts: First: A car can be "the means of production", if you're a driver for Uber/Lyft. Second: the issue I understand is that this website isn't letting one person take fruit from a tree, but treating all such things as open invitations for all persons to take from the tree. To your analogy, that isn't taking a single Model T car, but seizing the factory and stating you'…
One could argue that if the City needs Model Ts and you're not doing anything useful with the factory, one should reprimand it to benefit society