I once lived next door to a black family, in a middle class neighborhood. They had a late model BMW with a sun roof. I sometimes saw them throw trash out their sun roof onto my yard. They wonder why white people are willing to pay a premium to live away from them.

Yeah, it's an asshole thing. They come in every color. The whole "Don't mess with Texas" anti-littering campaign was created because young white men had no qualms about throwing their garbage out of their pickups 25 years ago. (You know, because as long as YOUR truck is clean, it's good...)

We were eating at a restaurant that has a fountain in the courtyard the other day, and I saw a little boy (under 3) pick a water lily. To their credit, the parents were horrified.

And don't bouganvillea have prickles? I can never remember, but I can't keep them alive, anyway.

I saw white couple In a BMW trash my parents front yard with their Taco Bell garbage.

I saw Hispanic teens pee in my parents yard.

I saw an Asian couple not pick up their dog poo several times in my parents yard.

I never saw any black people do anything because black people are pretty much non-existent in Orange County.

That's not a coupe. A coupe would only have two doors. Although I am assuming that the two doors seen in the picture are not the only two doors on the car.

I used to live across from an elementary school in Oakland CA. Parents would park all over the street to pick up their kids, often ignoring the generous curbside space. It got so sometimes you couldn't get through all the double-parked cars. I watched one parent looking for a place to park, and -horrors!- there was only one car next to the curb. The driver proceeded to pull up alongside that one car and double-park.
My friends love to visit me where I am now... we're mainly white and well educated. It's CLEAN. Some towns just have more class than others.

We need an image-processing genius to go after the license plate. See this thread.

We used to live on a rail trail in Maryland. People thought nothing of also picking our flowers, having a picnic in our yard, letting their dogs run throughout our yard or parking on our front lawn or in the driveway - effectively blocking us in.

Steve: Horribly, car marketers - all German, I think - are trying to sell four-door cars as "coupes" these days - including Volkwagen with that CC that they insist stands for "comfort coupe".

On the other topic, I quote "because young white men had no qualms about throwing their garbage out of their pickups 25 years ago"

This is ironic, in a way, because anyone who drives a pickup with no canopy learns rapidly that bystanders sometimes consider an open pickup bed to be their personal trash bin, too.

Yet another example of how life in SoCal is so much better than other places?

You're paying a premium to have your fence peed on, flowers stolen, parking blocked, ears offended by the stereos and yelling of nearby bar patrons...

It's a SoCal thing, I guess.

My previous house had a lovely (unfenced) backyard where I planted lots of colorful flowers. When I was sitting on the patio one afternoon, a teenage twerp and his equally twerpy girlfriend walked by. He yanked one of my Japanese irises out of the ground, roots and all, to give to her. I stood up and simply told him I would have cut some flowers for him if he has simply asked. Of course, I got a "duh" look and the requisite "whatever, bitch" response.

> It's a SoCal thing, I guess

Yes... As are the starlets, the misty ocean breezes, the wafting mountain sagebrush, and the 350 cloudless days each year. It's a little cooler by the beach, so I like to wear a good wool, silk or camelhair sports coat.

A day spent enjoying California is like sexual intercourse. Only it's better, because you don't have to talk afterwards. If you don't want.

Don't be bitter, Raddy.

Horribly, car marketers - all German, I think - are trying to sell four-door cars as "coupes" these days - including Volkwagen with that CC that they insist stands for "comfort coupe".

I think they're trying to avoid the dreaded "sedan" word.

It's a bit deceptive, like calling a GT convertible a "roadster."

The neighborhood we lived in before here was a bubble project that went bust, it was supposed to be a resort community. The lots are bigger than usual, and half remain unsold 20 years later (it was poorly conceived...if you're going to buy 5,000 sq. ft. of land in Japan, you're not going to just use it on the weekends!)

We voted to use community money to buy loads of mixed flower seeds that were sown all over the empty lots, the place looked great! Unfortunately the neighborhood is up the side of a mountain and can be seen from the surrounding neighborhoods and the local shopping center. People started to show up and fill the trunks of their cars with flowers. Sigh. Many people in Japan seem to have a concept of 'anything in the wild is up for grabs' and it took signs all over the place saying that we planted the damned things to make them stop. Once it was clear that the flowers were 'owned' and didn't just sprout there they stopped, which is to their credit I guess. I'd think they'd get a clue from the same flowers blooming on every empty lot...

Kima, that's awful!

I once lived next door to a black family, ... They wonder why white people are willing to pay a premium to live away from them.

Classy.

I used to put flower pots - just some geraniums - out on our shared front porch at my apartment.

But, I stopped after getting tired of my neighbors using them as ashtrays.

Almost wish they would have stolen them instead.

Anything growing over the fence is public property, as this rhubarb picking lady argues convincingly:

http://youtu.be/SDKuWphUaWI

/sarc

"Don't be bitter, Raddy."

Not. Spent time in San Diego, I get it.

I'm seeing more negatives than positives lately, so thanks!

I hope you got a plate. Call the cops. When people do what she did it's not an incident, it's an example of a lifestyle.

Reckon she's got a rap sheet long as your arm.

Crid tells Radwaste: "Don't be bitter..."

Madonna tells Lady Gaga: "Don't be slutty..."

Well, if the woman had taken cuttings instead of plucking flowers, she might have been able to grow her own. But the flowers themselves will be wilted by the time she gets home.

Oh, I understand perfectly that the woman was stealing from you. I was just pointing out that taking cuttings would have given her plants of her own to enjoy, instead of getting wilted flowers by the time she reaches her home. But even taking cuttings without permission is still stealing.

And while asking permission is a good way to take cuttings, the best way is to ask the owner to take cuttings for you. It allows the owner to decide which areas she wants those cuttings taken from.

Wow I remember doing that when I was 6 yrs old and getting a severe spanking for it. The car she is driving has no bearing on her status or if she can or can't afford to buy flowers, the car could be borrowed, her significant other could be a car salesman or drug dealer, the simple fact remains somewhere along the way..this individual should have been spanked like I was for taking something without asking.