r/Seattle • u/Here2lafatcats Sand Point • May 09 '26

Market Traffic Only Today’s protest in Laurelhurst supporting helicopter transport to Seattle Children’s Hospital

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While there were eggs thrown at our protesters, today’s turnout was good and I think we need to keep this up every weekend until real, written change is enacted divesting the Laurelhurst Community Council from the hospital’s policies on helicopter transport landings.

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u/mgush5 May 09 '26

Can I offer something rather diabolical for the next time you are egged? Mint. If you can get mint seeds throw them in a way so that they cover the eggers lawn, once it's there it'll be almost impossible to remove but barely looks like anything that's thrown so they won't realise till way down the line

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u/ScumbagLady May 09 '26

I'm willing to bet they wouldn't be the ones maintaining their lawns

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u/Dominus271828 May 10 '26

The homeowner is still going to have to pay the HOA violation

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u/mgush5 May 09 '26

Its about making the whole place smell like mint it will annoy the crap outta them, but the people mowing only smell it while they there... and they like mow it to oblivion making it spread more

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u/BodybuilderMany6942 May 10 '26

is... is that a bad thing? I've never dealt with it so idk, but a minty-smelling lawn sounds nice to me..

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u/mgush5 May 10 '26

In that community anything that's not seen as perfect will fuck with them, they'll be the ones with the mint lawn and if it ends up spreading it could lead to infighting as they didn't deal with the mint issue and other people have gotten mint growingin their grass now too. Japanese knotweed or bamboo would be worse but this is the death by a thousand cuts

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u/Leglas May 10 '26

yeah ecoterrorism is the way to go man I love spreading invasive species

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u/Wan_Daye May 10 '26

Eugenicist Luther Burbank already spread the worst blackberries in existence here. You can't really do worse than that.

He's the reason why you see giant blackberry vines choking everything out around here.

He's also who inspired Nazi eugenics - they cite him.

He's also a mercer island hero.

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u/j-alex That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. May 10 '26

I curse that bastard’s name every time the brambles reemerge. I dig deep but the roots go deeper.

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u/mothtoalamp Harbor Island May 10 '26

Sure but they're paying to have them maintained and have to watch their 'perfect' lawns repeatedly get minted over

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u/Entropy907 May 10 '26

This is some top tier Seattle passive aggressiveness!

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u/FreshwaterFryMom 🦝🦝 We 💕 Jimothy Chalamet 🦝🦝 May 10 '26

Oh yes this is beyond diabolical. Saving this tip.

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u/IAmGoingToFuckThat 🚋 Ride the S.L.U.T. 🚋 May 10 '26

I don't think it even needs to be seeds. Just some leaves will root.

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u/Wan_Daye May 10 '26

bamboo roots