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YggdrasilsLeaf t1_j2fcgvb wrote

Y’all joke, but in the US, you will get shot trying to steal someone’s lawn gnome/jockey. I’ve been trying to liberate the one in my dads yard for years now, but it’s like he just knows someone is on the lawn and he just shoots indiscriminately.

Honestly I’m surprised I haven’t been hit yet. The man is basically blind and the lawn jockey is right next to the front door. He holds a little lantern to light the path. I don’t let my Dad know its me on his lawn. Because then I’d have to explain why I was sneaking around in the bushes near the front door next to said lawn jockey.

Easier to just run off. Pretend like I was never there when he calls me the next day to tell me about the punks constantly trying to vandalize his property……

Don’t judge me. He wasn’t perfect either.

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Koivosto OP t1_j2fcs2f wrote

Getting accidentally shot by your father who thought he was killing a stranger for stepping on his lawn - which he would have been morally fine with - is some seriously 'murica flavoured greek tragedy shit.

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BleydXVI t1_j2fd53h wrote

It does sound a lot like Oedipus. "I would've never killed that entire group of strangers if I knew my dad was one of them!"

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