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a Los Angeles-based organization that maps the city's fruit trees. Food-bearing trees that grow on or over public property get marked on a map, and city residents can use them to seek out fruit for free

So, big brother is mapping trees on private property who's limbs grow outside the property line. Strangers coming along picking from your fruit trees won't stop at the property line.

Wanna bet someone injects a poisonous substance into these public fruits (the plant as opposed to the human-kind). You're right, lawyers will get rich. Reminds me of the old story about a farmer getting mad over his watermelons getting stolen so he posted a sign that one of the melons was poisoned.

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“Reminds me of the old story about a farmer getting mad over his watermelons getting stolen so he posted a sign that one of the melons was poisoned.”

You left out the rest of the story:

The would be thief added his own sign. “I poisoned one too, so now there are two”.