Painted Rocks

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AIBU to hate the painted rocks people are leaving all around the place. Yes it might be a fun activity but if your kids want to paint rocks then do it at home and keep them there. When I walk through woods, or by fields then I want to enjoy the natural scenery not gaudily painted rocks very few yards. It is little better than littering the countryside.

Op i think you have uncovered the people responsible for the monstrosities yanbu i hate them too. Let nature be nature stop with the gaudy shitty painting every fucking rock. I hate seeing them and im someone who loves art and actually used to go to graffiti workshops. Lol each to their own but i also hate seeing that shite.

Nearly all of you are being unreasonable - these are not painted rocks, they are painted stones. Americans have rocks, we have stones. (As in stone, paper, scissors.) Unless they are huge great boulders, in which case they are allowed to be rocks. Grrrr.

Call the police and report those little shits. How dare they! Seriously get a life.

Seriously get a life.

Lol pot, kettle?

Lots of people on this thread seem weirdly over invested and upset that people dont like their shitty rock "art". People are entitled to think its shit and ruining natural beauty spots.

I'm sort of with you BUT it's because the perfect pushy mums who have to paint them for the kids so they look great and not let the kids do them. If it's been painted by a kid I think they are great and mine love looking for them

The rock people are way over invested. Someone posted some photos of some rocks they’d found but horror of horrors they’d taken them home with them

Main rock organiser persons comes along

“Did you take those rocks? DID YOU TAKE THOSE ROCKS????” You must put them back it’s in the rulezzzzzzzzz, you’re ruining the FUN

Mate you left your rocks in a PUBLIC woodland, not sure you can control what happens to them after that

Thanks LadyAddle I just came on to say the same thing. They are painted STONES!

Or pebbles on some cases.

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They make people smile or is that forbidden?
You want to be careful OP someone might chuck one through your window. Soon you'll say kids need to stop chalking the pavements because it's graffiti

Ok so there are rock wankers. ..fair enough. But there'are wankers everywhere.

You aren't supposed to take them home?

Rock wankers 😂

Yes!

The ones near me take monthly trips to the coast to get buckets of pebbles. We live almost 2 hours from the nearest beach.

Nobody objects to a couple stones painted by kids. Anybody with any sense would object to the rock wankers round my way.

We took the rocks we found and put them on the hamster's grave.

We hardly find any rocks where we are, so I can’t imagine finding hundreds of the things. Fairy doors shouldn’t damage the trees, that’s not ok. At least the rocks get moved around.

I don’t mind the odd one but this will get out of hand and they will be everywhere before long.
The meaning will soon be lost.

I do agree. please keep them in your garden.
especially if you use toxic paints. Somebody scattered some in the woods around us. it has rained since, and there is a brown area around each, just like somebody had sprayed weed killer....

So, please don’t touch the ones you find. you don’t know what they have been painted with!

Where are these stones coming from? If people are taking them from beaches, that is illegal under the Coastal Protection Act. The fine is up to £1,000.

I completely agree, I hate the painted rocks. Most of them look crap, I think the well painted pebbles (sensibly hidden) actually can look quite nice and can see the appeal.
In a local woods near us there a tree covered in all sorts of tat, and loads of horribly painted rocks. I’ve also seen rocks on tree branches where they look like they’ll fall off and whack someone hard on the head and I’ve also seen them in the middle of the pathway?! Trip hazard!!
Why can’t parents teach their children to enjoy nature without littering.

My stones are collected on my walks, painted with acrylic by me and the kid and deposited back on later walks. They are definitely not “art” and I’d highly disapprove of plastic tat being left about. I do find your objection to paint as damaging to the environment rather amusing though. My shed, house, fence, gate etc. Is painted. The park bench is painted. The telegraph posts are treated with something nasty.. there are car fumes and litter and all sorts of man made shit in our natural environment (plenty of which we pick up for disposal on our walks). A few painted rocks is not going to cause a pollution issue. You don’t have to like looking at them but do get a grip! If you are worried about pollution take a bag on your walks and fill it with litter to dispose of.

Bloody Stonehenge - who left that there? Bastards.

My stiff-upper-lip husband found a rainbow one while walking the dog in the woods around our home. The day before his 90 year old mother had fallen and broken her hip and had to go to hospital alone. He texted me a picture with the words "sometimes the littlest thing can make you feel better".

Both of us like the woods as natural as possible but this is a tiny thing; it's not as thought there are whole rockeries of them, and if it cheers someone up then that's fine with me.

So yes, you are being unreasonable. I'm sure you can find other, more important, things to froth with rage about. How about the increase in dog pooh that we come across since more people are using the woodland?

I dont think this is a thing round here - central Scotland. I walk regularly in the woods and havent seen any there, thankfully.

OP if it's littering then you are allowed to gather them up and dispose of them.

That would make you an actual Scrooge of course but you can do it since they're annoying you so much.

Or, as a happy middle ground, you could redistribute them into urban areas since their woodland location seems to be the main issue you have with them.

Litter up the streets instead, more kids will see them there anyway.

Then you're not Scrooge, you're an eco warrior who cares about the planet and also the people on it..?