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The homeowner said he tried to tell people not to step on the grass on his yard but they won’t stop cutting the corners so he decided to install an automatic sprinkler and doused them with water. Image via The Daily Star.
– News from elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry with commentary added.
Taking aim on a corner cutter
A TikTok video still image via TikTok/tgunz81
Man divides opinion by setting off a sprinkler on people who step on his lawn.
From across the pond comes an article from a London tabloid about a suspected American who took action to stop people from cutting across his front lawn as it abuts a corner: he set up an automatic motion-detecting sprinkler to hose down and so deter corner cutters.
Turf blocking in Quincy Center?
A Quincy Quarry News file photo
For the most part, viewers of the lawn owner’s TikTok music video have generally sided with his creative response to dealing with corner cutters.
At the same time, Quincy Quarry News is in this rare instance questioning its decision to publish this news.
After all, it might motivate the Koch Maladminisatration to do similarly so as to upgrade its so far mostly failed strategies to preclude those who seek to enjoy walking on grass or are taking the shortest path between two points given the abject lack of properly considering foot traffic flow during the planning of Kim Jong Koch Plaza.
Source: Man divides opinion by setting off sprinkler on people who step on his lawn
“After all, it might motivate the Koch Maladminisatration to do similarly so as to upgrade its so far mostly failed strategies to preclude those who seek to enjoy walking on grass . . .”
Or he could always instruct the always-on-the-scene mini-Kubota operators to just run over anyone caught walking on the holy sod. It is the Q, after all.