"tell me your favorite coyote stories" coming from a wildlife ecologist is *not* an invitation for me to talk about that time I forgot I could speak English
or the time I got a chunk of Brookhaven National Laboratory on lockdown
or the time I threw lawn mowers off a roof
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My ex-girlfriend got offered her grandfather's house while she went back to school, from her family.
This rapidly changed from "so you can clean up all his stuff by yourself" to "and we're charging you rent" to "and we're increasing your rent," so she had a series of housemates to help cover aforementioned jacked-up rent. The biggest push to clear up the place left a huge pile of junk on the lawn and the city scooping it up left a batch of divots and exposed rocks which *destroyed* lawn mowers. Some of the housemates dealt with not one but five destroyed lawn mowers by dumping them on the roof of all places, theoretically so they could repair them later which uh, no.
This is one of those pretty flat roofs you get in Santa Clara/San Jose - you know the type.
Several years later I'd moved in and we were cleaning the roof more thoroughly than just getting the gutters. There was no way I was gonna carry a lawn mower back down a ladder, and I had a pretty good view of the yard, so I flung it to a good spot for pick up and thankfully it was too rusted to break up much on impact. So I threw the rest off, and was able to pretty much hit the same spot. Lawn mowers make a really satisfying noise when you throw them off a roof, by the way.
There was this huge biker type tooling up and down the street and he flashed the thumbs-up at me for doing it, too.
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@Leucrotta sounds satisfying as hell. What on earth were they thinking choosing that of all places as a storage space for such things though? Lol
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@Earthshine I honestly have no clue. Wouldn’t most people on getting a new lawn mower think “I’m never going to repair this old one, let’s get rid of it”? There was a kinda gunky garage and a beat up shed, why not ditch them there? And even if it WAS a good idea to store crapped out mowers on the roof how did they even get them up there?
@Leucrotta After some consideration, I can't stop wondering how you got a national lab to even partially lockdown.
@LexYeen okay, exaggeration. I did manage to get a chunk of buildings on alert from "a suspicious person sneaking around" apparently, by which time I'd gotten really bored and biked off to the oceanography library. I only found out there'd been some sort of deal after I'd been blissfully in the library reading for a few hours.
@LexYeen There were some dudes in a clean room doing *something* with *some* sort of device, and you could watch it through a window, so I did, but I had exactly no idea what they were doing and still don't so after a while I got bored and went off to read magazines.
@Leucrotta Gotta love being the false positive for institutional paranoia, huh?
@Leucrotta I wanna hear the lawnmower one