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I do not know in what country you live, but in the countries I lived in if you chop somebody's property you will go to jail.

• taneq 9mo ago
  But the guy did it himself. Must have gone insane.
  • irishcoffee 9mo ago
    Ignoring the entirety of the rest of this story, I desperately want to know why: "Fortunately it landed in the garden on the other side." was so notable.
    • laggyluke 9mo ago
      Because it didn't land on someone's head?
      • taneq 9mo ago
        Yeah, I read this as "fortunately it didn't land on anyone and didn't damage any valuable property." (Value judgements about gardens aside...)
  • close04 9mo ago
    "The victim did it to themselves" is a famously bulletproof defense. I don't know why people don't try it more often. This is the typical tall tale that used to travel in every neighborhood as a warning, especially to scare kids from doing some things. Kids eat up these stories. Probably doesn't work that much in the age of phones and "pics (shorts?) or it never happened".
    • latexr 9mo ago
      Unfortunately, we’ve reached the era where pics and shorts are very much no longer proof. In a few minutes you could generate video of that exact scenario.