Farmers having to deal with idiotic TikTok’ers and their trucks.
I don’t get it - article didn’t seem to explain, um, WHY these fucking idiots would drive all over farmers’ crops.
What - just for clicks?
Huh?
Oh fuck-off you lying fucking goof - you don’t know what crushed crops look like?
In the springtime, many crops look like grass. Particularly bright and colorful green grass.
When I first moved to Kansas, out in farm country, I also wondered what all those beautiful fields of grass were. My girlfriend informed me that it was wheat.
For example:
Sometimes it looks more obvious like this:
But that’s also not as aesthetically pleasing. They were probably in one of the less obvious fields because it looked like just really nice grass, and that would make for a good photo.
It seems at least once a year this exact same thing happens, someone decides they get to go through a construction area instead of around it and immediately gets stuck in wet concrete.
IIRC, about ten years back someone did it on a motorcycle and ended up going over the handlebars and getting injured.
Wheat is grass as is barley, maize, rice, and sugar cane, true grasses at that. Oats are “grass-like” for some reason.
Yeah, I thought it was just regular grass inedible to people, not crops. Having grown up in suburbs, I had no idea that wheat looked like normal grass early in its lifecycle.
My wife went to college in eastern Washington, where there are vast crop fields, and she said that corn (maize) is the same way.
Regardless of whether it’s crops or “just grass” what makes these TikTokers think it’s okay to drive their trunks onto private property just to take pics/videos?
The issue is a culture that shows people that anyone can be a star if they film themselves. I don’t know if it’s possible for older folks like us to understand it. When both of my daughters were younger, they each went through a phase where they would pretend to be social media influencers doing videos in the bathroom mirror. Fortunately, it ended up just being a phase that they grew out of. But these kids grow up seeing this everywhere, and for many they get a skewed perspective where this kind of fame becomes extremely important.
Important to the extent that spending an hour on someone’s private property, especially some random field in the middle of nowhere that nobody is going to care about, that’s totally irrelevant if it can get them the perfect photo or an amazing backdrop for something. It’s extremely twisted.
It’s the presumtion that “nobody is going to care about” that gets me. Because WE are Main Characters.
This being 2026 America, that’s also a big gamble on that the person who DOES care will be sensible, composed and phone the Sheriff, not just go to the gun rack and give you a really exciting reel.
And just to nitpick, regular inedible grass is sometimes a crop. That’s what people grow so that other people can buy sod.
True! Whether something is a “crop” or not depends on how it is being used, not what it is. Some wild vegetables growing in the wilderness aren’t a “crop” either if they aren’t being cultivated as one.
As a suburbanite from arid paved Los Angeles I had the same embarrassing wake-up 
moment when I first moved to central Oklahoma after college.
Oooooh, so that’s what that stuff is. Who knew??!?
Urban / suburban people can be incredibly clueless about everyday rural whatever.
And as a separate matter, anyone trying to be an influencer or just trying to showcase their awesome life to their friends is in a narcissistic frame of mind as they’re pursuing their shot. Even if they’re normally a considerate person, they’re probably not while embedded in that situation.
Could still be a valuable crop being grown for pasture or hay, even if it is a grass inedible by humans. Both are also vulnerable to weird weather, and therefore these days often in short supply. Somebody’s prize herd built up over decades of work may be off to the slaughterhouse if the farmer can’t feed them.
There really is no such thing. By now it’s either growing crops or it’s essential habitat. And yes there’s going to be humans who care about it, even if g-you don’t give a shit about any other creature.
(I realize that it’s not the people in this thread who need convincing of that. At least, I hope not.)
Indeed. If you are city folk coming out to the country, or the wilderness for that matter, please don’t assume that you know what you’re doing. You or someone else may die of your assumptions. And I don’t mean of somebody’s shotgun. Lakes and rivers are not swimming pools, a barn or field or trail is not a petting zoo, weather can change abruptly and some of it can be deadly in various ways, cliff edges and river banks don’t stay put, and yes there are such things as poisonous plants. I could go on.
Getting stuck in concrete is such a worn-out comic cliché, and yet it seems too happen IRL all the time. I wonder if people slipping on a banana peel happens just as frequently.
I have yet to see someone crushed by a falling piano.
I’ve read that it’s actually harder now.
When the banana-peel trope was created, the dominant variety of cultivated bananas was the Gros Michel, which had a thicker, and relatively slippery skin. But, the Gros Michel was largely wiped out as a cultivated crop by a fungus in the 1950s and 1960s, and banana growers switched to a different cultivar, the Cavendish, which is what we see in stores today; Cavendish banana peels are not as slippery as Gros Michel ones were.
I’ve never seen anyone slip on a banana peel; though I’ve certainly seen people slip.
But then, I’ve never seen anyone stuck in concrete, either. I’ve seen evidence that somebody’s walked through it, whether intentionally I usually couldn’t tell; but no sign that anybody larger than an insect got stuck.
My favorite part of the Van Gogh museum was realizing that the “slipping on a banana peel” trope was so universal that the Dutch used a 3D banana sign as a Wet Floor warning.
(Sorry, couldn’t find an image in Dutch)
FWIW, I’ve done that. It was on a smooth/polished floor and was like stepping on wet ice. I can’t believe I didn’t actually fall. This was also a grade school cafeteria. Outside of that, it’s pretty rare to even see a banana peel on the floor, let along step on it.
Grapes are pretty nasty, too. At work, I’ll go out of my way to pick up a grape I see rolling across the floor. I’ve slipped on enough of them over the years. We actually had an employee break her ankle (knee?) when she slipped on a grape.
Grade school cafeteria, I get. That’s how kids learn.
But otherwise, do folks live/work where people just toss random food waste on the floor? Like this is a normal, everyday occurrence?
And just to make it clear, the Gros Michel banana wasn’t permanently wiped out. What happened was that the vast majority of it was wiped out from a fungus, and what was left was relatively small. Which meant both that there were less bananas available, and that they were vulnerable to Panama disease so could not be relied upon in the future. The Cavendish variety, on the other hand, is more resistant to that disease, and so cultivars switched to it. And now, if you get a banana at the grocery store (at least in the US) that is what you are going to get. The Gros Michel bananas are still being grown and presumably you could get your hands on them somehow. (They are reportedly much creamier than Cavendish.)
Not-so-fun fact… There is a new strain of Panama disease called Tropical Race 4 (TR4) which Cavendish bananas are also susceptible to. At the moment, there are no varieties of banana confirmed to be immune, so potentially all bananas are at risk. There is a banana called the Taiwanese Cavendish that was reported to be resistant to TR4, but that is not confirmed to be true, and some experts have concluded that it has no real resistance.
So, on top of everything else we have to worry about, we might have a future where bananas are gone or at least so rare that they are a prohibitively-expensive food item enjoyed only by the wealthy. Like Almas Caviar, Italian White Alba Truffle, or high-grade Saffron.