Florida beekeeper loses livelihood after neighbor has 20 beehives removed from his property

https://www.tampabay28.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/florida-beekeeper-loses-livelihood-after-neighbor-has-20-beehives-removed-from-his-property

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MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 39 pts · 279d (5 replies)

“I encountered a contractor with a backhoe knocking down trees 50 feet inside my property line,” he said. “When I asked about the missing bees, the contractor said they had been moved by the landowner.”

Screw the bees. They’re fucking with his trees. Give me some tree law!

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 279d (2 replies)

Found the Lorax

Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 279d (1 reply)

Its no joke. The bee's might be a minor fine but tree law is real and its extremely costly.

BanMe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d

They're going after him for lost wages so it'll be $50-100k just for that. Hiring a lawyer was smart.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 279d

Screw the bees. They’re fucking with his trees.

Hear this man's pleas! Break the thief's knees!

Quexotic@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 278d

Treble damages!!!! I wanna see em!

ajmaxwell@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 279d (2 replies)

Theft. Property damage. Trespassing.

Why wasn't the neighbor arrested and charged for those crimes?

another_being@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 278d

Florida.

PapaSkwat@lemmings.world · -2 pts · 278d

That's a good question.

tate@lemmy.sdf.org · 26 pts · 279d (5 replies)

Come on people, fuck! I almost never complain about bad headline gramnar, though it is rampant. It seems to be just something you have to live with these days.

The sentence has two subject/predicate pairs: "beekeeper loses," and "neighbor has." So when it comes time for the possessive pronoun "his"... who the fuck is that?

Many would say you should avoid this pronoun altogether. But if you are determined to use it, please at least make it refer to the last mentioned subject!

This story would be very different (and not much of a story at all) if the neighbor had beehives removed from the neighbor's own property, which is what the headline literally says.

pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 279d

Thank you, I was sitting here wondering why this was a bad thing? I would do the same thing… “get your shit off of my property”.

Muffi@programming.dev · 6 pts · 278d (1 reply)

The irony of misspelling 'grammar' is pretty funny

tate@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 278d

Misspelling, especially when typing on a phone, is orders of magnitude less egregious than the gramner problem in the headline.

Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 278d (1 reply)

My gramnar has always been terrible. 🤪

tate@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 278d

Mine, on thd other hanf, is prefect, though my speling is not.

mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 279d

Don't fuck with a man's bees. Hope the hive owner's neighbor gets stung on his ass.

FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 278d (2 replies)

I can't beelieve it

PapaSkwat@lemmings.world · -1 pts · 278d (1 reply)

Dad!

FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 278d

Oh Honey! I'm finally back from getting milk

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 4 pts · 279d

“I encountered a contractor with a backhoe knocking down trees 50 feet inside my property line,” he said. “When I asked about the missing bees, the contractor said they had been moved by the landowner.”

Screw the bees. They’re fucking with his trees. Give me some tree law!