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Speaker 1: I tried to prank my girlfriend. But now I'm wonder

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Speaker 1: for murder by plants rights activists.

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Speaker 2: You know that whole thing. It's just a prank, bro.

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Speaker 2: I heard that actually is legal defense in the case

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Speaker 2: of murders.

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Speaker 3: Stop, no, it's not.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you got me, dude. I literally thought

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Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, there's this case, and like they said,

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Speaker 1: like it's it's a.

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Speaker 3: Then they just got off the hook and they just wow.

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Speaker 1: Man, It's like it's like a pleading insanity or something,

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Speaker 1: pleating a prank.

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Speaker 3: Pleating the prank.

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Speaker 2: If the judge finds it's fun If the judge finds

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Speaker 2: it funny enough, then then it's okay.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. So I posted this image of a

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Speaker 1: well established cactus on a Facebook group dedicated to house plants.

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Speaker 3: Well, is it just like a cactus that looks like

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Speaker 3: a ding dung?

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Speaker 1: It's oh, I didn't even gather that. Let's see. Oh

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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, that guys.

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Speaker 3: That is well established.

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Speaker 1: That is sure, you know, putting some thorns in your

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Speaker 1: throat if you catch my drift.

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Speaker 3: Graphic. So what graphic graphic?

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Speaker 1: Yes, the poster The post read any idea how to

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Speaker 1: kill this cactus? And make it look like an accident.

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Speaker 1: My girlfriend is going to be out of town for

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Speaker 1: the weekend, and I want it to be dead before

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Speaker 1: she gets back.

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Speaker 3: Damn. That's uh mean, yeah, kind.

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Speaker 1: Of kind of mean. The original intention was for the

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Speaker 1: post to be seen by my thirty two male girlfriend

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Speaker 1: twenty eight female, who maintains an impressive collection of exotic

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Speaker 1: houseplants and frequently participated in this group. The idea that anyone,

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Speaker 1: or at least more than a few people would take

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Speaker 1: this post is anything more than a joke honestly didn't

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Speaker 1: occur to me.

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Speaker 3: I think, Op, he's bad at doing jokes, Like its

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Speaker 3: a good joke.

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Speaker 1: He's not good. It's just like like he just walks

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Speaker 1: up to his friend just like punches him in the

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Speaker 1: face and like a tooth falls out and he's like huh.

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Speaker 1: He's like, you just punch me. He's like, not truth out,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a prank. It's like, I don't go

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Speaker 1: to the tooth. I have to go to the orthodontis. Now.

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Speaker 1: Throughout the following several days, I received hundreds of comments

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Speaker 1: and numerous direct messages telling me that I was a

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Speaker 1: monster and that killing this cactus was evil et cetera,

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Speaker 1: et cetera.

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Speaker 2: I've heard of like animal rights activists, but I've never

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Speaker 2: really heard of cactus rights.

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Speaker 1: He murdered the he murdered the cactus. Cactus pleased to someone,

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Speaker 1: the pleasing, the pleasing potential that we've lost face right now.

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Speaker 3: I'm just it just sounds like it hurts, bro.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Note though there were also several actual

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Speaker 1: suggestions about how to murder the cactus had a people.

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Speaker 1: The next day, my girlfriend, who had not seen the post,

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Speaker 1: appeared confused. Asked me why several different women had reached

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Speaker 1: out to her through DM to warn her that I

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Speaker 1: was indeed a psychopath and to tell her to leave me.

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Speaker 1: These messages continued for over ten days.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: Also, the cactus is still thriving, dude, all because he

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Speaker 2: threatened a cactus.

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Speaker 1: He threate he threatened a cactus to You know.

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Speaker 2: Bro, if you threaten a cactus to the wrong community,

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Speaker 2: they're coming after you. They're docting you. They're telling you

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Speaker 2: to break up with your girlfriend. Like like, imagine if

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Speaker 2: his girlfriend actually listened and then his whole relationship ended

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Speaker 2: because he threatened a cactus.

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Speaker 3: That'd be hilarious. That would have been the greatest read,

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Speaker 3: A story of all amazing