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.