to expect my mother to be able to sit in her back garden without being hit by a flying gala melon!!

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My 76 yo mother was gardening at the end of her garden when a melon came flying over her back hedge and smashed against her caravan

Why would you even do that???? Back neighbours have grown up children. My mother can be a bit feisty ( think Catherine tates nana but scarier)

Can only think they were wanting to thow it into the alley but thew it too hard.

My mum said she launched a barrel of expletives but heard nothing - no laughing no "oops sorry"

Why would anyone do that??

Now it occured to me Titscrossed that there was no melon. Just evidence of . But dp reminded me that she threw it back along with the expletives.

Rotten tomatoes! Or rotten eggs - they smell worse!

Seriously not, unless you really want to escalate the neighbourhood feud...

But

(I've nc'ed since being on one of your prev threads)

It doesn't sound to me like it's a feud type thing if there was silence afterwards. I'm trying to put myself in the melon throwers position, if it was intended for the alley then heard someone yelling at me think I'd keep quiet and pretend I wasn't there. However, if I was trying to start something/was pissed off with you then I'd follow it up with a 'take that you twats'.

But then, I would never chuck a melon so I might be wrong.

to expect my mother to be able to sit in her back garden without being hit by a flying gala melon!!

But It didnt hit her.

THIS TIME.

they've found a viable flight path now. It's crash helmet time.

(On a serious note your mams neighbours are humongous dicksplats)

Op I can offer you an out of date onion. It's not funny at all. Your poor mum almost taken out by a low flying melon. You don't think something will be looking for the melon. It might have made an bid to escape a fruit salad......

Well now I'm waiting for the next thread to turn up in weather....

Hi I'm in the NW, has anyone else had a brief spell of raining melon shards?

Is it not funny, you are right to be cross. However I am also laughing my head off at:

Apocalypse's post
"African or European?" (just popped into my brain), and
I don't think she likes melon either

She didn't hear anything because they were crapping themselves! Good! The shits! How bloody awful! I hope she's ok?

I suggest she obtains a large pumpkin come Autumn when things have settled down a bit and that she launches THAT over the hedge into THEIR garden.

Was it whole? If not maybe they'd been watching the slo mo guys on Youtube who cut a melon in half with rubber bands

Ow

Was it a melon from a gala/fete or was it a galia melon?

If the former maybe its some sort of alternative coconut shy?

Viva - I did ponder the spelling but not a school fete in sight. Galia melon :)

That, Viva, is pedantry up with which we should not put!

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

Not funny at all in my books. It could have really hurt if it had hit her. As it was, she was left with a mess to clear up - that's a pain in itself.

Let her see and be thankful this didn't happen but a bit

Yippie-Kai-ay, Melonfarmers....

"I would never chuck a melon so I might be wrong." has made me laugh a lot. Only confirmed melon-chuckers are really qualified to comment here.

I think someone was a furious rage at not getting the Cantaloupe they'd ordered from Ocado and hurled the Galia in a fit of pique.

More importantly it could have really damaged the caravan.