Forking is a thing around here, too, usually as a mischief night prank. It happened to us once, along with a couple of other houses nearby, and I thought it was funny.
One of D’s friends woke up to a fork display spelling out PROM? on her front lawn, which I thought was pretty cute (and I am not a fan of prom-posals). Problem was, the girl did not know (initially) who it was from!
It’s a wasteful use of plastic, making garbage for the landfills. Not to mention that the homeowner has to clean it all up. Inexcusable and not funny at all.
@TatinG --my first thought was, what a wasteful proliferation of plastic crap. Like we don’t use it for real purposes too much already.
Environmental concerns aside I would much rather take a forking over TP. Our community requires the homeowner have the TP cleaned up by 10am or they are subject to fines. Attempting to clean TP out of the top of a 25+ foot tree is near impossible, without specialized equipment, which you generally do not have around the house. Forks on the other hand would be a relatively quick stroll around the yard, exercise I could use, and something easily accomplished by 10am.
Our high school sports teams do TP the varsity homes the night before big events which makes 10am even harder to have clean up done. The kid that is targeted is typically on a bus well before 10 and parents leave shortly after so very little time to avoid a fine. I don’t think forks are part of the code giving both more time before to clean up and a quicker, easier clean up as well.
Never heard of forking- seems very time intensive for the pranksters. Agree that I would rather clean up forks than TP.
“Our community requires the homeowner have the TP cleaned up by 10am or they are subject to fines.”
That’s stupid.
Stupid I agree, but the law nonetheless. Goes along with no overnight street parking, no overnight pick up parking in your driveway, no boats or campers parked in sight of the street, etc. It is all about the visual and overall is a small price to pay for a top 3 public school district in the state.
People are lining up to get in and I just saw that we have been identified as having a terrible affordable housing index (no surprise) that the state is requiring a plan to fix be filed by 2020.
Forking or sporking (that spoon fork you get at some fast food places) has been around for awhile. My kids high school sporked the lawn of their sister high school. They also sign yards, popular after elections are over and pink flamingo yards. The pink flamingo’s are used as a fund raiser. You wake up to find your yard full of flamingo’s with a note hanging off of one. Call this number and for x dollars donated to x club or organization we will remove the flamingo’s an relocate them to a friend of your choice yard.
Good grief. Seems like extortion to get rid of the pink flamingo blight. It’s like the guys who paint your house number on the curb and then want money, when you didn’t ask to have your house number painted on the curb.
Forking is a thing here as well, along with TP and “fruit looping,” which is scattering boxes of the cereal in a yard. The cereal is the worst because it is d*** near impossible to clean up.
I’d not heard of forking, but we got pancaked several months ago. Pancakes all over the yard. At least 75. Many had faces. The perpetrators had to do a lot of prep work. We were kind of impressed. We did make son clean it up, and told him to be completely silent about it on social media and otherwise. It’s not fun if no one reacts. We were also glad to catch the prank within a few minutes of the deed. By the time son was done picking up the last of the pancakes, there were bugs crawling on them. Gross.
Here, it would be crows and other critters scattering those cakes around! What a mess.
Great tip re: no social media posting. 
And here the bunnies and birds would have had a nice pancake breakfast, probably joined by the dogs on their walks.
“The cereal is the worst because it is d*** near impossible to clean up.”
But it is bio-degradable as are pancakes at least unlike forks! Hate to see food waste, though.
" They also sign yards, popular after elections are over"
Are they doing it with election signs? That’s illegal in more ways than just messing with someone’s yard.
Forking can be fine but I wouldn’t like it for the sole reason that if one fork gets broken off from the tines, that the hard plastic could cut a bare foot. That is my only complaint off the top of my head. We have never been forked. Rolled plenty. But the most clever, was wrapping our cars in Saran Plastic Wrap, fender to fender and probably a whole roll per car.
We have caught people rolling our house before and later, deep in the night, took our kids/friends and showed them how a real rolling job was done on the offender’s home. Only a time or two. We don’t spray it down with water. That is taking it past fun, in my book.
When my eldest (son) was in 6th grade, the cheerleader sponsor for the pee wee club took the girls house rolling. She had her daughter leave her bra on our front door handle with TO: Our Son’s Name. Thankfully, I walked out early to get the paper and found it and was madder than a wet hen and dumb founded for words. I contacted a cheer mom I knew very well and she said all the girls had spent the night at the Cheer Sponsor’s house (she had a 6th grade daughter). I told the cheer mom what happened and by the end of the day, when I went to pick up my son, ever cheer mom and their daughter, except for the Sponsor and her Daughter, were there to apologize and were appalled by the sponsor’s behavior. She thought it was funny. My son never did know or if he found out, I never told him.
“But the most clever, was wrapping our cars in Saran Plastic Wrap, fender to fender and probably a whole roll per car.”
My husband would NOT be pleased with anyone getting near the paint job of his newish, expensive car.
“When my eldest (son) was in 6th grade, the cheerleader sponsor for the pee wee club took the girls house rolling. She had her daughter leave her bra on our front door handle with TO: Our Son’s Name.”
That’s really creepy that an adult would do that especially with kids as young as 6th grade.
Makes me feel fortunate that none of these things, absent some very rare TPing around Halloween, happen in my community.
Agreed, @doschicos --I’ve never seen or heard of any of this, and glad. Not a pranking fan in general, so glad that’s not a thing around here.
We were once the recipient of the most elaborate TP’g I’ve ever seen. I’m still impressed. We had more than an acre of front lawn, on a small hill, fronting a state highway. They wrote s’s name and made very fancy artwork, including the entire front wrap-around porch. Cleaning up TP on grass wet with dew is a PITA…it takes a long time to clean up that much TP and bagging it with the lawn mower didn’t work too well either
I rented office space from a long-time public defender. She was adamant parents who let their kids TP were stupid, as the repercussions could be much more serious than envisioned.
We’ve been forked and TP’d simultaneously. Of course the perpetrators were spending the night at a nearby house and let it slip, so we returned the favor one night! It was all in good fun and no harm done.
Wow—never heard of these stunts or seen it done in our area. Have heard if TPing but don’t know anyone who did it but my friend in San Marino’s house was TP’ed (D was cheerleader and later sorority).
I would not be pleased with these stunts. My car was hit with raw egg by some homeless folks once—fortunately H noticed it and removed it before it permanently harmed the car paint. 