[trd2343]

I found this happened to my lawn this morning. It happened over night. Does it look like it was done by a person or possibly an animal?

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/634/img2209h.jpg

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4685/img2210e.jpg

[Klutch]

it was those fucken birds i bet.....i shoot them with my bb gun when they try to fuck around with my lawn :gun:

[spoon.ek9]

that looks like someone (probably teenagers) is fucking with your lawn.

[cunninglinguist]

It's probably the crows. I can't see a bunch of kids actually getting down and dirty to do that.

[JHatta]

birds cannot do that much damage...

it looks like it was done with a grub hoe


for those less educated, or have never done work
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__aMF2pW0XLc/SbmiRLRHm4I/AAAAAAAAAqQ/xjitvM4N3Yg/s400/119923_lg.jpg

[spyker]

It's the work of those fucking crows!

I have seen hundreds of them on lawns in my neighbourhood ripping up peoples yard looking for food.

[blacK20]

I don't see how crows can tear up a lawn like that.

[wacko604]

i've seen the crows do that much damage before

[silk]

animals !

[stotch]

I'm pretty sure it was crows.

I asked somebody about this a while ago and they told me it was the crows looking for a certain worm thats only on some lawns. I have seen a bigass army of crows working over a few lawns around langara, some guy even put down mesh and weighed it down with cinderblocks so the crows cant wreck it any further.

[fliptuner]

MY gf's mom's house looked similar, shortly after they laid their sod down a few years ago. It got even worse when they tried to re-seed the damaged area - the crows would come down and eat the seed, thus fucking it up even more.

[doveshack]

same thing happened to my parents place. Its a mixture of birds and skunk's around the area....The skunk appears late at night. If you have a gate, close it.

[triplexcel]

no way crows can rip up THAT big of grass.. yeah, maybe if it was small bits but looks like a bigger animal did it or some dude that hates you haha

[wnderinguy]

Raccoons come to mind.with the ground being that muddy there has to be footprints,even a crow would leave them.

[xXDragonXx]

I've seen crows that have done damage that large, however it looks as though it's a human act. If any animal did it, the damage would be more scattered... From the picture, it looks like HUGE chunks are flipped over, tossed and/or lifted from it's surface (possibly with a grub hoe). And if an animal did it, there would be some footprints.. I don't see any animal living in an urban setting covering footprints..

[StylinRed]

why would a person turn over a few pieces of grass mat? in the backyard at that....


grow some grass normally

[lilkulit]

I'd go with raccoons, i've seen them doing it at my friend's neighbours front lawn. I've seen skunk doing it to on the same neighbourhood.

[racerman88]

not the crows b/c they pull out little holes all over your lawn. We have a few houses in our area that have had their lawns destroyed by crows.

[azzurro32]

Kinda looks like a middle finger from birds eye view
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[sexyaccord]

probably some animal,
dont think anyone would spend that much time doing hard labour to rip out your lawn

[MG1]

Looks like you pissed off someone. I can't think of any animal that would dig up large chunks of grass like that. Not crows, that's for sure. Any foot prints or dirt on driveway?

How well lit is your backyard at night?

[seakrait]

reminds me of that crappy movie with jim carrey: fun with dick and jane. he's rich, then he's poor. so he resorts to stealing sod from his neighbour's yard to fix his own.

not sure why humans wouldn't do more than dig up your yard. see any paw prints or shoe prints in the dirt?

[winson604]

The bug crows are looking for is the European Chafer Beetle. This is a problem on Vancouver East Side right now and my front lawn has been destroyed by crows constantly coming to try and find this bug. However, by the looks of your lawn I'm fairly confident it wasn't the work by Crows. If it was there would be many little patches of grass being dug up and not huge patches like yours. Could possibly be another animal or just some stupid teens.

[trd2343]

If it's done by humans, I doubt it's intentional. If they were trying to get back at me, I think there are a lot more easier ways to cause damage ie., spraying my house/car with paint. In addition, I walked around the whole backyard and found that everything was alright except that patch of lawn, which is pretty random.

My sister just told me the gardeners came by yesterday, so maybe they put something in the grass that attracted the animals? But odd thing is, this is the first time I had this happened.

I'm pretty sure it happened at night because the lawn was fine during day time. My backyard isn't very well lit.

[nabs]

crows are pretty freaking strong man. they scare me lol.

[nsmb]

did you look for animal foot prints?

[AzNightmare]

That's how my lawn looks like now!
It's the damn crows... isn't it?

[TRD Rs200]

looks like animals, i just cant see a bunch of kids putting that kind of effort these days just to fuck up ur lawn

[SpartanAir]

I just watched the movie The Soloist with Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx, Robert's character has an issue with raccoons tearing up his lawn looking for worms to eat. his lawn looks like that.

The solution he tries in the movie is buying coyote urine, which is supposed to scare them off.

Although in the movie he spills the bag of urine all over him.

[Hondaracer]

thats fucked.. that looks like fairly established grass, its not newly laid sod

but i wouldnt think it would be a person because unless you were being carefull with a shovel it would be a fairly delicate process to rip just the top layer of grass out like that

[hal0g0dv2]

prob a start of a crop circle

[BNR32_Coupe]

there's a million better ways to vandalize your property than tearing up your lawn. who the hell says "hehehe, im going to tear his lawn up! that'll show him.."

[spyker]

there's a million better ways to vandalize your property than tearing up your lawn. who the hell says "hehehe, im going to tear his lawn up! that'll show him.."

Yup so true!

My favorite way is,go to the house in the middle of the night while everyone is sleeping,take the persons waterhose,shove it in the mailslot and turn the water on.

Nothing like waking up in the morning to a indoor swimming pool.

[rsx]

Your last name is Backyard? That's awesome.

[Gnomes]

I think it might be animal (raccoons) since the piece of lawn pulled out is large. If it's crows, it'll be small scattered bits of grass (unless crows have figured out a way to work as a team)

When I image googled "RACOON lawn" I found this:
http://www.rhen.org/images/Raccoon%20Damage.jpg

[124Y]

There's no way that's done by crows!! :eek:
Either by people or by larger animals.

[KingDeeCee]

You guys have to be kidding me? You are blaming birds for this?

Birds will leave small clumps of grass and dirt and there will be a ton of holes around it.

The dirt is clean, looks ripped right off by a garden tool. I've recently pulled out all my grass in my backyard and that's pretty much what it looked like.

Either jokesters were screwing your lawn up, or a fairly large animal was clawing at the grass. Most likely the jokesters since no animal that size would look for anything underground.

[you!]

just scatter a bunch of rat poison on ur lawn for the animals

[PiuYi]

its a UFO landing


.....or a black/brown bear... thats the only animal i can think of that could claw up your lawn like that

[JHatta]

why do people think that an ANIMAL can tear up the sod/lawn in a STRAIGHT line, throw everything to the side, and pull it all off UNIFORMLY as a net shape?

are you all fucking morons?

show me an animal(s) that does this:
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4685/img2210e.jpg

not only that, but all the gouges are of uniform depth.

[Hondaracer]

^ show me a human who is going to bend over and physically pull up a layer of grass like that or use a shovel and carefully peel back grass like that just to fuck with somone?

those skunk pictures look similar

[JHatta]

i don't care about your fails, i failed myself. don't think that bothers me.

obviously the person didn't pick up each piece, dickweed.

look at my first post.

[shawn79]

its the RACOONS
i went out few nights ago around 5am nothing happened yet but when i came home at 8am it was fucked up... 4th time happen to me :(

[SkinnyPupp]

Maybe it's raccoons with gardening tools?

[Delish]

My front yard looks like that too!!! The houses on either side of us also have it too, but it seems like we got it the worst. At first we thought it was just a big dog in the neighborhood but now we're starting to think it was a racoon or something. It's weird though because it's the first time it's ever happened to our yard and I've seen tons of raccoons and even skunks hanging around the streets in our area late at night and we never had problems before.

[hal0g0dv2]

Maybe it's raccoons with gardening tools?

now we are getting somewhere

[JHatta]

Maybe it's raccoons with gardening tools?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Yk727zSs6dI/SGFv9KGnKZI/AAAAAAAAAdY/9gi-fwqbBqs/s320/raccoon3.jpg

you win

[cunninglinguist]

My front yard looks like that too!!! The houses on either side of us also have it too, but it seems like we got it the worst. At first we thought it was just a big dog in the neighborhood but now we're starting to think it was a racoon or something. It's weird though because it's the first time it's ever happened to our yard and I've seen tons of raccoons and even skunks hanging around the streets in our area late at night and we never had problems before.

can you get pic so we can compare

[TheKingdom2000]

I used to be a stupid ass retard teenager.
I have done some stupid things, but I don't think I would ever do this.
And like posters above, you would get dirty and crap. Not worth the thrill if you ask me.

must be a combo of some nasty crows/night dwellers.

[RenoMan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezfe1uRlzcI


he did it ^

[oldsnail]

you should have a poll

[LemonT]

it's done by raccoon's, I caught some on my lawn digging up the grass around 10-11pm, i believe their looking for food most likely worms or something, there were two of them

[Deezle]

you should have a poll

hahaha true that, so many possibilities

[nismosx]

fuck the lawn atleast you didnt get a flower pot thru the rear window of your car

[gs430]

"crows, raccoons and skunks tear up turf in an excited search for tasty chafer grubs."



http://www.squamishgardeners.com/chafer.htm

[monkeywrench]

did you piss off the crows?

[vash13]

did you piss off the crows?

It's raccoons. My neighbor has the same problem as you do. If the lawn is not taken care of properly, it's more common to have more bugs such as worms living in it thus the raccoons wanting to dig it up your lawn.

[JSilver]

Its raccoons.

I had the same problem.

[hotjoint]

damn raccoons huh?

[RRxtar]

i own a landscaping business and frequently tear up lawns and if that was done by an animal please catch it, box it up, and send it to me. it looks like it works harder than some of my employees.

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

im telling u dude, ALIEN is on to u! u better watch ur back yo



must be The FOURTH kind

[you!]

dont fuck with the racoons

[MR_BIGGS]

I just watched the movie The Soloist with Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx, Robert's character has an issue with raccoons tearing up his lawn looking for worms to eat. his lawn looks like that.

The solution he tries in the movie is buying coyote urine, which is supposed to scare them off.

Although in the movie he spills the bag of urine all over him.

+1

[corollagtSr5]

Someone stole your lawn and is in someone elses back yard now

[Heroo]

"AHHH DANG IT PEGGY!!!!..."

[m4k4v4li]

it was probably someone you pissed off

i know personally, when people piss me off... I go to their house when they're sleeping and go ape shit on their lawn

shows them who's boss and makes me feel better....

[oinkoinkpig]

I'm guessing unicorn

[boogabooga]

LOL owned