Pluggers by Rick McKee for October 20, 2024

I run the lawnmower over them so they can decompose and feed the trees like they are supposed to.

All I do is use a leaf blower to keep the sidewalks and driveway clear ;-)

or the neighbor’s yard

I have no trees, I have no leaves, Mother nature just leafs me alone.

Try that in MY state. Once.

My neighbor is out every evening with his leaf blower, it’s very annoying

We have three elms. I have to rake at least three times, though now I rake into small piles, and vacuum. A neighbor rakes his into the street, and they blow into others yards. I get to rake four times.

Fly my pretties, fly!!!

for those of us old enough—remember years ago how the leaves smelled when we burned them in the street?long, long ago.{and don’t even start about pollution)just “leaf” our memories alone

Pluggers don’t go out of their way to make extra work for others.

That’s illegal in many places, because wet leaves become a slippery road hazard when it rains.

Sorry, I’m usually against making comments about “comics physics”, but this just doesn’t seem like a great idea to me, and might in fact encourage a bad practice. Unless the city is coming to pick them up, won’t they clog up the storm drains, especially if everyone does that?

Gee, I hope they don’t distract someone while they’re driving.

I notice the attribution is from a resident of Cheyenne Wyoming. Cheyenne residents don’t need to wait for wind. It’s omnipresent and sweeping away all leaves while bringing in those from the neighbors’ yards.

— a Cheyenne native.

If you had to wait for a windy day, there probably wouldn’t be enough leaves falling to rake up. :)

In our city, we are supposed to move the leaves to the space between the sidewalk and the curb. Since that space is only about 1 meter wide, and the city has lots of deciduous trees, there is an inevitable overflow into the street. My wife is always afraid that the loose leaves from neighbors’ yards are blowing into ours.

They always end up in a deep pile in the corner where two neighbor’s fences join to create a leaf trap….

Just helping nature along. But the up-wind neighbors are heathen.

looks like Crankshaft is a PLUGGER.

That is littering in Oklahoma. Not to mention clogging sewer drains. Either get a mulching mower or bag your leaves! Bagging takes up much less time than raking or blowing leaves!

I do that with the tumble weeds.

Well, I must be a ‘real’ plugger. We used to rake them all into our driveway and then burn them. BURN THEM? Yes! And everyone else in town did it, too. We would have marshmallows and just play in the fire with sticks, etc. The smell of those burning leaves in the Fall… ah yes – a wonderful smell. But we also got liquids in glass containers. Plastic hadn’t been invented yet, apparently. Oh, and we could open our pill bottles without them being locked up – child safe AND elderly impossible. Yassir, those were the days. Environmentalists weren’t invented yet, either. P.S. Yes, we had a garden hose ready to put out the fire ‘just in case.’

We got too old to deal with mowing and raking so we have a fellow and his crew who deal with it all for us.

Burning leaves is illegal here. They have to be bagged and left with garbage if one deals with them on their own – gardening companies have to remove and deal with what they collect.

Are they still allowed to do that?