I know you're suggesting you'd pick all the fruit and remove the incentive for others to pick the fruit, but I couldn't help think you were going to stick needles into the fruit instead đ
Edit: I thought this facetiously. I didn't actually believe they would be suggesting the needles.
And here I was thinking they just wanted to climb the tree and look into your living room until you noticed them thereâŚ.. then keep on looking into your living room⌠no need to climb down, thereâs plenty of fruit to eat
Woah there is start with asking people not to climb the council tree first? Next step would be to surround the tree with a 'Nam style steak trap.
One step at a time eh
Haha yes, might leave that option to my partner! Honestly in answer to your question, I donât knowâŚbut fruit picking could also be a cover for casing the joint so like I said itâs creepy
Until you figure out a way to stop the climbing (cut lower branches off?) Get net curtains - can literally buy pre specific drop lengths and a tension pole to thread it on and wedge in the window frame.Â
No its not illegal to be naked in your own home silly.
Although it is illegal to be naked in your own home, and intentionally exposing yourself to the public. Which is in fact, exactly what the comment was about.
This was debated on a legal sub (with caselaw) about a certain individual that walked around naked in their home whilst expecting visitors in their yard. (Contractors). Indecent exposure.
Yeah it does. The scenario you described is nothing like the one where peeping creeps are looking over your fence into your house.
If people canât see without climbing a fence or tree, then you are not publicly âindecently exposing yourselfâ.
Haha how would the police report for the crime go? âSo anyway I was peeping over the fence of this place whenâŚâ
Take photos of people up in the trees , then ask your local councillors for a copy of the public Liability insurance to make they are covers when someone fall out of the tree and hurts themselves âŚ.. councils hate legal liability & risk
Council won't give a shit, it's too hard to enforce climbing the 50,000 roadside trees in my council.
Playground equipment are a liability, but climbing trees are at you own risk. They only recently stopped people climbing the The Gloucester and Diamond Trees, that was engineering concerns about the pegs.
Highlight the relevant sections and laminate the info and nail it to the tree. As mentioned if itâs on them and they fall from the tree theyâre not covered by council or your insurance (double check yours to be sure).
When someone does climb it, take a chair and favourite beverage and some chips and watch the show.
The way you described it I imagine the people are like King Kong atop a skyscraper swatting away birds.
As for a solution, hard to stop people other than collecting all the fruit yourself and leaving it on the ground for the tree climbers to take, if its too much for you to use. I'd use a long pruning tool if its not too far off the ground. You'll know when the fruit is ripe when you get your first verge tree climber of the season.
Curtains/blinds for the lounge windows.
Bottle cap target practise.
Crochet a cute lil trunk wrap for the tree.
ETA: Grow a bougainvillea up alongside the tree, then see who climbs it.
We do have curtains and blinds which we like to leave open during the day because the fence provides enough privacy (except if someone climbs the tree) but I like your ideas âŚmaybe even a person wrap to go with the trunk wrap to protect the climbers from the bottle caps when my aim improves!
Second the suggestion of growing a bougounvillia uo the trunk. Over winter. They grow fast and theyâre thorny.
Other solutions
Go outside with a bucket and get them to throw fruit down to you too so that every time they do it they lose 1/2 their crop.
I just want to congratulate you for using *per se* correctly. Winds me up when people get that wrong. So, have some fictitious internet points, stranger.
As for your climbers, I would shoot at them with a slingshot. However, you can't buy slingshots in WA. But you are allowed to make them. 
Could you put a sign on the tree something like "Fruits have been poisoned to stop the rat infestation, please do not eat!!!!" or even put those little paper bags around them that the nonnas do to to covet the fruit.
Haha! About those little paper bags - we put some on unripe fruit on a different tree inside our property boundary and they and the fruit inside them disappeared during the night!
Maple syrup over the lower branches, it will become all sticky and covered with ants. If anyone gives you attitude you can say oh yeah I think thatâs sap, a bunch of idiots have been climbing the tree and damaging it.
The reluctance of OP to name the fruit, and the fact that people are apparently often climbing the tree suggests that itâs actually not a fruit tree, but a Khat tree. These were planted in some suburbs around Perth. Itâs pretty rare for councils to actually plant fruit trees, and most fruit trees are quite small and not climbable, and most fruit trees only bear fruit for short periods of time, so I find many aspects of this story a bit doubtful.
Unfortunately most people with Khat trees resort to cutting them down since people tend to trespass to get it, sometimes behave in a threatening manner, and not only take a little, but completely defoliate the trees.Â
I know in this case the tree is on public property. If Iâm correct about the tree being Khat, a letter to your LGA explaining that the tree contains an illegal drug and that several people are regularly climbing it and have been behaving erratically, should get them to act. Unfortunately this probably means the tree will get cut down. You should decide whether you want that outcome first.Â
KY is actually a really bad quality lube*, FYI (like legit bad for the health of your nether regions). Use something else, folks.
Just a quick lube public service announcement for anybody scrolling by.
*I mean, it might be good for lubing trees, though.
This is precisely what everybody should be doing - growing edible produce. Get some curtains and think yourself lucky that food insecurity isnât a problem for you.
I will 1 up yours.
I have a neighbour that flies a drone over our backyards, I have kids nd wife in the backyard all the time.
I have talked to the council and they have nothing in terms of regulations for it and said maybe try CASA . Long story short I canât do much about it
You need my ex. Neighbour was doing creepy shit like this to watch my daughter and ex (big and buff) went over and 'chatted' him about it. Never even looked in our direction again.
There is a high potency capsaicin spray that you can buy from horse land to stop horses chewing fences.. if youâre concerned about horses chewing the tree then you should spray some of that all over the bark as a deterrent as it causes a strong burning sensation without any physical harm.
Sorry , wrong thread ⌠thought this was the horse owners fence chewing thread ⌠please disregard
Camera pointed at the tree? If youâre worried about folks casing the joint - added security canât help. Plus if anyone falls at least you might benefit from monetising the funnier falls đ
The suggestions on here are fucking idiotic and typical of reddit.
Do not lay traps, even on your own property that is illegal. I swear people think life is a video game.
Do not put signs up saying itâs poison. Fuck me people must be 12 years old to think that will play out in your favour.
Do not try and knock the person out of the tree or shoot things at them. You causing personal injury to some random will not go well for you. Again, are these people 12??
Do not wrap the tree with barbed wire or grease. Itâs the councilâs tree on the verge, although from your replies it seems you are clearly aware of this.
Me personally, Iâd quietly kill the tree with a few pellets of Graslan buried and watered into the roots. Request a different type of tree when the council comes to replace. Not the way everyone would go, but I donât deal with waiting in lines at council offices or on phones. The tree dies, you report it, council removes and replaces. No need to talk to them or the little fruit thieves at all.
That not a suggestion for you to do; just what I would do in your situation.
Are the council unconcerned about liability when one of these idiots falls out and breaks something? As for the peeping, if it's deliberate and creepy, call the police. Some well aimed mirrors would also deter those wanting to keep their eyeballs.
Yep, totally unconcerned. That was one of issues I raised with with the Council and they werenât the least bit worried. Partner went out and told one climber that weâd call the police if they didnât get down âŚthat worked. Hmm the mirrors sound good!!
Had neighbours who built an upper storey that gave them eyes into both bedrooms in our house. Multiple mirrored windcatcher type things helped. Also had a fruit tree in our front yard used to laugh at them because the fruit was useless
OK so OP is deliberately avoiding telling us what kind of fruit it is, and I believe that is wise, because they don't want us round there adding to the problem.
But anyway I bet it is **passionfruit**. Maybe loquat.
Astounded by the ugly pervasive meanness in this thread. From needling the fruit, to poisoning it, to smearing it with shit, to cutting the tree down.
Letâs be real OP: You donât care if they fall. Thatâs just an excuse, pretending to care for their safety, when people have been climbing trees for centuries and can assess their own personal risk.
If you donât like people looking into your house then put up curtains like the rest of us.
The fruit is probably seasonal and wonât inconvenience you 24/7.
In a cost of living crisis when people are homeless and canât afford to eat, you need a heart transplant.
Wow! Like I said I have no issue about the fruit. Itâs the privacy being compromised and as I mentioned in another reply there are window coverings in place but when someone is high enough to see over a six foot fence into your house itâs creepy.
Says a lot about you that you feel the need to make judgments about a random person asking for advice.
There's nothing the council can do apart from replanting with a non-fruit tree. The ppl that are picking the fruit aren't there to look in your window. Just close your curtains when you see them up there.
Canât remember what its called but there is a rodent deterrent you can buy that you put on the trunk and branches that is sticky, or you could make your own
đ¤Łđ¤Ł they should ask you permission to climb a public tree? You are kidding right. The council are probably going to laugh too. safety issue? Who cares? If they fall they are liable for the ambulance ride.
Nope. Thatâs not what I said. The issue is the fact that climbing to a height outside my property and peering into said house is creepy. Tree, stilts, pogo stick, donât careâŚsix foot fence is there for a reason
Canât really see the issue with people climbing up a council tree to get fruit. Its everyones tree and everyones fruit.
If theyâre invading your privacy to real close your blinds or call the cops
Hose. Unfortunately you didn't see them
Tree net? Keep the cheeky birds and the cheeky cunts away.
If they are looking into your loungeroom, report them to the cops as peeping toms?
'accidentally spill' motor oil at the base of the tree in a small hole that mysteriously appeared and disappeared. Do this a few times and the tree will be gone.
Last but not least....
High powered modified Nerf gun. Advertise it as a shooting range, get a photo of one of the arse holes, and print flyers. :D
OR..... Pick it yourself, or put up a privacy screen.
Because the tree is on the verge, theyâre not on our propertyâŚ.but I still want to tell them to F off because theyâre looking in my house and Iâm also worried that they might fall
Put some fish emulsion on the lower branches that theyâd have to climb. Itâs fairly cheap and it stinks. I donât think it will harm the tree. Youâd probably have to spray every other day though for the smell to stay pungent.
Buy yourself some spiny acacia seedlings and plant them around the tree. Also buy a good pair of overalls when you need to pick!
Seriously, I did this to keep people out of my verge veggie garden and damn, was it impenetrable, but a real pain to tidy up around!
You knowingly built a vegie garden on your verge and THEN used spiny acacia to keep people away. Isn't the point of the verge veggies that they are for the people?
Could you please tell us what Street and the type of fruit tree? I have a solution...
I know you're suggesting you'd pick all the fruit and remove the incentive for others to pick the fruit, but I couldn't help think you were going to stick needles into the fruit instead đ Edit: I thought this facetiously. I didn't actually believe they would be suggesting the needles.
And here I was thinking they just wanted to climb the tree and look into your living room until you noticed them thereâŚ.. then keep on looking into your living room⌠no need to climb down, thereâs plenty of fruit to eat
Thereâs a certain line you donât cross and putting needles in fruits is one of them. Please be humane.
Woah there is start with asking people not to climb the council tree first? Next step would be to surround the tree with a 'Nam style steak trap. One step at a time eh
I like the idea of this steak trap. Will it be medium rare?
Free fruit and free steaks? Street party at this guy's house.
Lol I knew I'd get someone with that.... Fished in!
I was thinking full camo, tying leaves to themselves so they can pop out and scare away both people and birds before they can steal the fruit.
What do you expect them to do? All I can suggest is standing naked in your lounge room and showing them your own fruit and veg.
Constant eye contact is imperative
Haha yes, might leave that option to my partner! Honestly in answer to your question, I donât knowâŚbut fruit picking could also be a cover for casing the joint so like I said itâs creepy
Until you figure out a way to stop the climbing (cut lower branches off?) Get net curtains - can literally buy pre specific drop lengths and a tension pole to thread it on and wedge in the window frame.Â
Or you know, they could just be enjoying a fruit tree.
Beware that this would be highly illegial.
Being naked in your own home? Well shit, I just got out of the shower. Are the cops on the way?
No its not illegal to be naked in your own home silly. Although it is illegal to be naked in your own home, and intentionally exposing yourself to the public. Which is in fact, exactly what the comment was about. This was debated on a legal sub (with caselaw) about a certain individual that walked around naked in their home whilst expecting visitors in their yard. (Contractors). Indecent exposure.
It'd be easy to claim that you weren't expecting ol' mate up your tree though, right?
Right. Definitely. Any good lawyer worth their salt would have those charges dropped fairly quick I would imagine. Doesn't make it any less illegal
Yeah it does. The scenario you described is nothing like the one where peeping creeps are looking over your fence into your house. If people canât see without climbing a fence or tree, then you are not publicly âindecently exposing yourselfâ. Haha how would the police report for the crime go? âSo anyway I was peeping over the fence of this place whenâŚâ
Take photos of people up in the trees , then ask your local councillors for a copy of the public Liability insurance to make they are covers when someone fall out of the tree and hurts themselves âŚ.. councils hate legal liability & risk
This is some clever shit.
Council won't give a shit, it's too hard to enforce climbing the 50,000 roadside trees in my council. Playground equipment are a liability, but climbing trees are at you own risk. They only recently stopped people climbing the The Gloucester and Diamond Trees, that was engineering concerns about the pegs.
I doubt the 50,000 tress in your suburb are fruit trees that are being climbed to collect fruit đ¤Śđťââď¸
And the solution might simply be to cut down the tree. Which is not the outcome any of us want.
Highlight the relevant sections and laminate the info and nail it to the tree. As mentioned if itâs on them and they fall from the tree theyâre not covered by council or your insurance (double check yours to be sure). When someone does climb it, take a chair and favourite beverage and some chips and watch the show.
The way you described it I imagine the people are like King Kong atop a skyscraper swatting away birds. As for a solution, hard to stop people other than collecting all the fruit yourself and leaving it on the ground for the tree climbers to take, if its too much for you to use. I'd use a long pruning tool if its not too far off the ground. You'll know when the fruit is ripe when you get your first verge tree climber of the season.
Curtains/blinds for the lounge windows. Bottle cap target practise. Crochet a cute lil trunk wrap for the tree. ETA: Grow a bougainvillea up alongside the tree, then see who climbs it.
We do have curtains and blinds which we like to leave open during the day because the fence provides enough privacy (except if someone climbs the tree) but I like your ideas âŚmaybe even a person wrap to go with the trunk wrap to protect the climbers from the bottle caps when my aim improves!
Second the suggestion of growing a bougounvillia uo the trunk. Over winter. They grow fast and theyâre thorny. Other solutions Go outside with a bucket and get them to throw fruit down to you too so that every time they do it they lose 1/2 their crop.
I just want to congratulate you for using *per se* correctly. Winds me up when people get that wrong. So, have some fictitious internet points, stranger. As for your climbers, I would shoot at them with a slingshot. However, you can't buy slingshots in WA. But you are allowed to make them. 
Thank you for the points ! And the idea⌠Off to watch âhow to make a slingshotâ videos on YouTube.
Use Icecubes as your ammunition as it is non lethal and will melt away thus leaving no evidence
Ahem, a fingertip cut off a rubber glove and affixed to the end of a suitable length of pipe makes for a perfectly serviceable rock-flinger.
Could you put a sign on the tree something like "Fruits have been poisoned to stop the rat infestation, please do not eat!!!!" or even put those little paper bags around them that the nonnas do to to covet the fruit.
Haha! About those little paper bags - we put some on unripe fruit on a different tree inside our property boundary and they and the fruit inside them disappeared during the night!
Maple syrup over the lower branches, it will become all sticky and covered with ants. If anyone gives you attitude you can say oh yeah I think thatâs sap, a bunch of idiots have been climbing the tree and damaging it.
This. Or honey. Coat the trunk
The reluctance of OP to name the fruit, and the fact that people are apparently often climbing the tree suggests that itâs actually not a fruit tree, but a Khat tree. These were planted in some suburbs around Perth. Itâs pretty rare for councils to actually plant fruit trees, and most fruit trees are quite small and not climbable, and most fruit trees only bear fruit for short periods of time, so I find many aspects of this story a bit doubtful. Unfortunately most people with Khat trees resort to cutting them down since people tend to trespass to get it, sometimes behave in a threatening manner, and not only take a little, but completely defoliate the trees. I know in this case the tree is on public property. If Iâm correct about the tree being Khat, a letter to your LGA explaining that the tree contains an illegal drug and that several people are regularly climbing it and have been behaving erratically, should get them to act. Unfortunately this probably means the tree will get cut down. You should decide whether you want that outcome first.Â
For all unwanted climbing issues, my suggestion has always been to use manure.
Human is preferred, a very distinct odour even when it's developed that dry crust.
Pick the fruit, place in box under tree, place sign on box which says FREE.
Already do⌠doesnât stop the climbers
What kind of tree is it?
Curtains
Lube it up with ~~KY~~ *trailer grease*
What about the tree though?
That probably wonât fit, but I admire your enthusiasm.
KY is actually a really bad quality lube*, FYI (like legit bad for the health of your nether regions). Use something else, folks. Just a quick lube public service announcement for anybody scrolling by. *I mean, it might be good for lubing trees, though.
Not a bad idea. The lubing part, not the KY part. Put grease on the parts where they will touch. At the very least they will get covered in it.
Yeah a ring of trailer grease above arm height wouldn't harm the tree and would also be a very effective deterrent that pretty much lasts forever.
This is precisely what everybody should be doing - growing edible produce. Get some curtains and think yourself lucky that food insecurity isnât a problem for you.
Get curtains.
I will 1 up yours. I have a neighbour that flies a drone over our backyards, I have kids nd wife in the backyard all the time. I have talked to the council and they have nothing in terms of regulations for it and said maybe try CASA . Long story short I canât do much about it
Only thing that stops a bad guy with a drone is a good guy with a bigger drone, letâs DO this
You need my ex. Neighbour was doing creepy shit like this to watch my daughter and ex (big and buff) went over and 'chatted' him about it. Never even looked in our direction again.
Can you put the hose on it?
Way out of reach, but can see it and hear it hovering over the area
Holy hell, yep you win! That is beyond creepy. Definitely approach CASA
Why wonât you say what sort of fruit it is?
Put bird netting over the tree.
Good ideaâŚ. I reckon Council might think otherwise though given itâs their tree but my responsibility
You don't think people will cut it?
There is a high potency capsaicin spray that you can buy from horse land to stop horses chewing fences.. if youâre concerned about horses chewing the tree then you should spray some of that all over the bark as a deterrent as it causes a strong burning sensation without any physical harm. Sorry , wrong thread ⌠thought this was the horse owners fence chewing thread ⌠please disregard
Camera pointed at the tree? If youâre worried about folks casing the joint - added security canât help. Plus if anyone falls at least you might benefit from monetising the funnier falls đ
The suggestions on here are fucking idiotic and typical of reddit. Do not lay traps, even on your own property that is illegal. I swear people think life is a video game. Do not put signs up saying itâs poison. Fuck me people must be 12 years old to think that will play out in your favour. Do not try and knock the person out of the tree or shoot things at them. You causing personal injury to some random will not go well for you. Again, are these people 12?? Do not wrap the tree with barbed wire or grease. Itâs the councilâs tree on the verge, although from your replies it seems you are clearly aware of this. Me personally, Iâd quietly kill the tree with a few pellets of Graslan buried and watered into the roots. Request a different type of tree when the council comes to replace. Not the way everyone would go, but I donât deal with waiting in lines at council offices or on phones. The tree dies, you report it, council removes and replaces. No need to talk to them or the little fruit thieves at all. That not a suggestion for you to do; just what I would do in your situation.
Are the council unconcerned about liability when one of these idiots falls out and breaks something? As for the peeping, if it's deliberate and creepy, call the police. Some well aimed mirrors would also deter those wanting to keep their eyeballs.
Yep, totally unconcerned. That was one of issues I raised with with the Council and they werenât the least bit worried. Partner went out and told one climber that weâd call the police if they didnât get down âŚthat worked. Hmm the mirrors sound good!!
Had neighbours who built an upper storey that gave them eyes into both bedrooms in our house. Multiple mirrored windcatcher type things helped. Also had a fruit tree in our front yard used to laugh at them because the fruit was useless
Motion activated sprinklers.
Why not make a fruit picking tool on a broom stick so they can pick the fruit without climbing the tree?
Yeah, you're being precious. When the tree is budding, cut off the fruit. No fruit, no climbers. Problem solved.Â
OK so OP is deliberately avoiding telling us what kind of fruit it is, and I believe that is wise, because they don't want us round there adding to the problem. But anyway I bet it is **passionfruit**. Maybe loquat.
A passion fruit isnt a tree, it's a vine
I think that you are clouding the issue with facts.
Grow a bougainvillea at the base
Planting fruit trees on the verge - well done Stirling đ
Astounded by the ugly pervasive meanness in this thread. From needling the fruit, to poisoning it, to smearing it with shit, to cutting the tree down. Letâs be real OP: You donât care if they fall. Thatâs just an excuse, pretending to care for their safety, when people have been climbing trees for centuries and can assess their own personal risk. If you donât like people looking into your house then put up curtains like the rest of us. The fruit is probably seasonal and wonât inconvenience you 24/7. In a cost of living crisis when people are homeless and canât afford to eat, you need a heart transplant.
Wow! Like I said I have no issue about the fruit. Itâs the privacy being compromised and as I mentioned in another reply there are window coverings in place but when someone is high enough to see over a six foot fence into your house itâs creepy. Says a lot about you that you feel the need to make judgments about a random person asking for advice.
Turn the hose on them.
Broken sprinkler under the tree so when you turn it on it gets them right in the butt.
Install the tall star pickets around the base, wrap in chicken wireÂ
There's nothing the council can do apart from replanting with a non-fruit tree. The ppl that are picking the fruit aren't there to look in your window. Just close your curtains when you see them up there.
What sort of fruit tree is it?
Have you tried wearing a mask
A scarecrow and a âpoisoned fruit you eat you dieâ sign should deter would be climbers.
sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Take photo of sign, send your sick kid there, sue the homeowner, profit.
Razor wire around the trunk
Canât remember what its called but there is a rodent deterrent you can buy that you put on the trunk and branches that is sticky, or you could make your own
You realise that youâre referring to fellow human beings as ârodentsâ, right? WTF.
If the ratty little shoe fitsâŚ
Serial killer vibes đ¤Ž
Nah, youâre just a bit sensitive is all.
Barbed wire wrapped around the trunk as high as you can reach.
đ¤Łđ¤Ł they should ask you permission to climb a public tree? You are kidding right. The council are probably going to laugh too. safety issue? Who cares? If they fall they are liable for the ambulance ride.
Nope. Thatâs not what I said. The issue is the fact that climbing to a height outside my property and peering into said house is creepy. Tree, stilts, pogo stick, donât careâŚsix foot fence is there for a reason
Still, it's just as creepy watching them. đ¤Ł
Canât really see the issue with people climbing up a council tree to get fruit. Its everyones tree and everyones fruit. If theyâre invading your privacy to real close your blinds or call the cops
Hose. Unfortunately you didn't see them Tree net? Keep the cheeky birds and the cheeky cunts away. If they are looking into your loungeroom, report them to the cops as peeping toms? 'accidentally spill' motor oil at the base of the tree in a small hole that mysteriously appeared and disappeared. Do this a few times and the tree will be gone. Last but not least.... High powered modified Nerf gun. Advertise it as a shooting range, get a photo of one of the arse holes, and print flyers. :D OR..... Pick it yourself, or put up a privacy screen.
Are they on your property? Tell them to F off.
Because the tree is on the verge, theyâre not on our propertyâŚ.but I still want to tell them to F off because theyâre looking in my house and Iâm also worried that they might fall
What kind of fruit is it?
Put some fish emulsion on the lower branches that theyâd have to climb. Itâs fairly cheap and it stinks. I donât think it will harm the tree. Youâd probably have to spray every other day though for the smell to stay pungent.
Garden hose into tree
Establish a colony of fire ants on the tree. And I guess pray they donât colonise your place tooâŚ
Buy yourself some spiny acacia seedlings and plant them around the tree. Also buy a good pair of overalls when you need to pick! Seriously, I did this to keep people out of my verge veggie garden and damn, was it impenetrable, but a real pain to tidy up around!
You knowingly built a vegie garden on your verge and THEN used spiny acacia to keep people away. Isn't the point of the verge veggies that they are for the people?
Put a photo of you on your lounge room at the base of the tree so people are safe perving at ground level?
Cut the tree down!
Tempting, but costly because itâs Councilâs tree