Okay, have you heard of putting Fruit Loops on people's lawns before rain?

[Hannathy]

I had never heard of the forking until I moved to the Midwest. I think everything but the salting is fun and part of being a kid! What a bunch of grumps IMO. We used to do a lot more- anyone remember soaping car windows ? It wasn't destructive it washed off. We also used to throw corn ( dried off the cob kernels) on peoples porches and sidewalks. The kids have lost so many of the fun adventures of childhood I am glad they still can do a few of the thrills. I actually saw my neighbors house getting TP'd last yr, thought it was funny and went back to watching TV. never told anyone.

 

[my3kids]

So are the prongs or the handle facing up? I've never heard of that, or salt. The salt just sounds malicious. Unless it was agricultural blocks of salt and the family woke up to a herd of deer in the yard. That might move from naughty to nice. The TP is likely to be done by friends though. I remember for sale signs....kind of like forking on a bigger scale though, I guess. 20,30, 100 for sale signs collected and placed in someone's yard on a Friday night. Egss, just like the salt. Not done by friends. The fruit loops...sounds like a mighty sticky mess to me.

 

[Cantw8]

I had never heard of the forking until I moved to the Midwest. I think everything but the salting is fun and part of being a kid! What a bunch of grumps IMO. We used to do a lot more- anyone remember soaping car windows ? It wasn't destructive it washed off. We also used to throw corn ( dried off the cob kernels) on peoples porches and sidewalks. The kids have lost so many of the fun adventures of childhood I am glad they still can do a few of the thrills. I actually saw my neighbors house getting TP'd last yr, thought it was funny and went back to watching TV. never told anyone.

Bunch of grumps????? Alrighty then...pm me your address and I will be right over to fork the crap out of you and if I really like you, I will puzzle piece your yard until your head falls off from laughing

 

[belle_of_the_ball]

try the fruit looping!!!


one of the sr. pranks this year was forking quay way (a huge courtyard in my school.) the sr. class has like 600 kids....so they all kept taking plastic forks from the different places. At like 9 in the morning i go out there to go to class and it was forked.....not to mention it was raining. I might have to tell all my sr. friends to try the FLing

 

[Hobbitmomma]

I'm sorry, maybe I'm a stick in the mud, but I was taught to respect other people's property by my parents and I am teaching my children the same thing. You shouldn't even be ON someone else's property, let alone trashing it! I would not have a sense of humor about this at all if I woke up and found my property covered in forks or whatever.

 

[Saffron]

Obviously the people who haven't been forked don't have kids that do forking or know about forking etc. No big deal. It's not a dasterdly deed done to strangers, not that I know of anyway. Like stated time and time again, it's friends doing it to friends. If you don't want it done to you make sure you make it clear to your children that they better not be involved in anything like that because you do not want it done to your yard because you don't like it and don't think it's fun or funny. That should stop things before they start.

You can call the police if it's done to you. I'm sure they have nothing better to do than investigate the forking of lawns. We all know it's better to have something like this on record, in case the teens get forking in their blood and eventually resort to ... plastic flowers! *GASP* You know, the whole, one innocent vice leads to a bigger and not so innocent vice thing.

crazyforgoofy! I love the Peeps thing! LOL!

 

[gina2000]

Doesn't bother me. Our senior high school football team member's homes get TPed at the start of the season. The cheerleaders do it. I consider it a rite of passage and a bit of honor for the Senior. The peeps on a fork sound hysterical.

Usually the kids clean it up around here.

 

[teacherforhi]

A few years ago the local class of seniors thought it would be cute to put 10,000 plastic forks in the lawn of the local high school. At least they thought it was cute until they were out there picking them up at the threat of cancelling graduation. The custodians put it in no uncertain terms that they were NOT pulling 10,000 forks out of the ground.

 

[SadieDog]

We 'forked' a friend's yard at Easter and added a special touch. We put a few hundred (yep, I said hundred) Peep rabbits and chicks on the handle end of the forks, then stuck the forked ends into the ground. It looked amazing and they loved it. The whole neighborhood loved it, in fact!

Another friend's yard was "flowered" with dozens of cheap plastic flowers stuck into the grass. It looked so funny.

But the topper was when my cousin's yard was made to look like a cheap version of a graveyard. Someone put 30 or 40 of the cheapest Memorial Day cemetery decorations like the tacky plastic 'lace' crosses all over her front lawn. Now that was a sight! I think it made the local paper.

Its just good fun and silliness.

That's great.

 

[nuke]

You can call the police if it's done to you. I'm sure they have nothing better to do than investigate the forking of lawns. We all know it's better to have something like this on record, in case the teens get forking in their blood and eventually resort to ... plastic flowers! *GASP* You know, the whole, one innocent vice leads to a bigger and not so innocent vice thing.

crazyforgoofy! I love the Peeps thing! LOL!

AFter flowers it could escalate to plastic flamingos. Oh the horror!

When I was in High School I worked at Walgreens and my friend and I had the greatest manager. She lived nearby and every Saturday night we would put a for sale sign in front of her house. She would come in Monday and laugh about how her husband has a fit every Sunday morning.

 

[GEM]

You can fork my lawn or TP my trees if you want - as long as you come back to clean it up. Otherwise, I'm gonna be WAY ticked off when I'm out there cleaning up the mess. How exactly is that supposed to be fun for me?

Around here, anyway, TPing is something that is done to the lawns of people you aren't particulary crazy about - a mean teacher, etc. It isn't a sign of popularity. Never heard of forking.

 

[HaleyB]

Around here TPing is a sign of affection.
We also have Pink Flamingo's that get passed around our neighborhood.
We have a neighbor who had a load of soil dumped on their lawn with a sign saying "XXXX is older than dirt!" (40th b-day).
Another one got a "show of support" (for 40th again)- huge bras in her tree.

 

[snowwite]

Around here TPing is a sign of affection.
We also have Pink Flamingo's that get passed around our neighborhood.
We have a neighbor who had a load of soil dumped on their lawn with a sign saying "XXXX is older than dirt!" (40th b-day).
Another one got a "show of support" (for 40th again)- huge bras in her tree.

The TP would piss me off but the other stuff you mentioned wouldnt because there is not a huge mess to clean up like the pranks the OP and others mentioned. I think the fork thing,the salt etc are just forms of vandalism being allowed and it seems encouraged by parents. I dont get it. My mother would have given me a sore bottom if I did tat kind of thing to someone else's yard. It is disrespectful IMHO. A pink flamingo on the other hand would make me laugh because it is done in fun and is not the same as destroying your lawn and trashing your yard.

 

[ilovepcot]

AFter flowers it could escalate to plastic flamingos. Oh the horror! QUOTE]

GUILTY!!! Guess DH and I are quite the little pranksters! We've had 4 sets of new neighbors directly across from us since we've lived in this house and every Christmas we "welcome" them with a large flock of Flamingos! They're tacky, traffic stopping and they've (neighbors) always loved them. They get their licks in, too. Should have seen the pig on our front porch!!!

 

[disneymom3]

It's good clean fun? For who? The person who has to pick up all the trash thrown on their property the following day? Wow. That sounds like fun.

If you get caught you are 100% going to clean it up?? So, do you tell your kids they shouldn't get caught?? Yeah, I could see myself telling my kids to throw a bunch of crap on someone else's property, but don't get caught or you'll have to clean it up.

I don't see the fun in anything that has to do with putting trash on someone else's property so they have to clean it up the next day.

Oh goodness. Weren't any of you folks teenagers? Yeah, I did all of this and more. But I never drank, partied or did drugs. Never got a speeding ticket, never had sex, never stole anything and the list goes on.

What our group did do--covering an entire lawn with fast food ketchup packages, soybeans in the grass(this was done to my house.) picking up Xmas trees left out for the garbage and delivering them to someone else, gathering up a bunch of model home signs and placing them all in one persons lawn, delivering two bathtubs to two separate people's houses complete with water and goldfish in them, dried split peas poured through the open sunroof on cars, packing peanuts in a car and on the lawn, a garbage can full of lemons and oranges leaning against the door so when you opened it they fell in, a whole barnyard scene including a scarecrow that held a sign saying "My name is Ted" (from the Wanna Be a Cowboy song) and throwing tortillas on someone's roof. (I didn't do that one and it was messy by morning.)

I am pretty sure there were more that I am forgetting. The thing here is none of the parents cared because they NEVER did any clean up. If your house got hit, it was probably revenge and YOU were the one out cleaning it up. You could usually talk a few friends in to cleaning up with you and while you did it you could plan what your revenge was going to be.

And btw, we did the Fruit Loops too and it is not nearly as cool as it sounds.

 

[RayaniFoxmur]

My neighbor's house was TP'd last year. I called her and said, "Awww, your daughter's popular!" She said she thought the same thing and was glad she didn't have to worry about her daughter having friends. BTW, the daughter and her friends cleaned up the mess that day. They had a ball! The mom baked them cookies. It CAN be an ok thing.

Popular?! I guess that's a foreign concept to me... when I got toilet papered my senior year in high school it's because the other cast members in the play I was in wanted me to drop out!

Different places different rules I guess... around here if you're TP'd... you're hated.

 

[GEM]

Popular?! I guess that's a foreign concept to me... when I got toilet papered my senior year in high school it's because the other cast members in the play I was in wanted me to drop out!

Different places different rules I guess... around here if you're TP'd... you're hated.

That's what I said. We lived next door to a teacher and her trees got TPd all the time. Sure wasn't out of love and popularity, I guarantee.

Where I grew up, TPing was along the same lines as "egging". Something you did to someone you didn't like or wanted to get back at.

 

[Blondie]

There'd be no way anyone would get away with forking or fruit looping our lawn, our dog would know you were out there before you even started!

There is a not so favorite teacher who lives in the neighborhood. His house was getting egg'd weekly. He finally had enough and called the cops, who then went door to door warning the kids in the neighborhood that charges would be forthcoming if it didn't stop. The policeman rattled off a list of things he could get the kids on; vandalism, destruction of property, etc.

His house hasn't been egg'd since!

So I'm curious, did the OP's son fruit loop anyone's lawn yet?

 

[Saffron]

Interesting. I wonder if there are regional differences when it comes to TPing and forking. That would be weird. If you were to move to a different region, and someone TP'd or forked you, you might think you were admired, when it meant just the opposite. LOL!

 

[Blondie]

AFter flowers it could escalate to plastic flamingos. Oh the horror!

When I was in High School I worked at Walgreens and my friend and I had the greatest manager. She lived nearby and every Saturday night we would put a for sale sign in front of her house. She would come in Monday and laugh about how her husband has a fit every Sunday morning.

That reminded me, my DH had a neighbor who woke up to 6 different For Sale signs in his front yard!