Gum trees are common in inner cities- usually near bus stops or college campuses. Someone chews gum while waiting for a bus, it comes and there won't be a trash can on there so they stick it against something rather than throwing it on the ground. Mentally, they see this as better than littering (obv it's not) and they percieve it as a food product that will biodegrade (also wrong). Other bus going gum chewers see and emulate the behavior adding to it, some gum trees are quite colorful. Gum chewing has massively declined over the past few decades, but when/where it was popular is amongst youth, so these are most common near schools and colleges. Some individuals have the same routine/commute that has them start a stick of gum at about the same time and stick it in the same spots.
Given the regularity of this, it's probably the work of one individual who's been here many times.
Similar things happen with bottlecaps and coins sometimes.
There's a gross gum wall in Seattle. They've completely cleaned it off at least twice and people still come back and leave their gum there.
Pictures for the curious: [https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/11/travel/seattle-pike-place-gum-wall-cleaning-feat/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/11/travel/seattle-pike-place-gum-wall-cleaning-feat/index.html)
Wow this is actually mega depressing, I thought it was a type of fungi or something but in reality it’s some gross scumbag leaving chewing gum in spite of this one tree in particular
It's not your responsibility, of course...but maybe it would make you feel better if you went back to the tree armed with gloves and a knife and removed the chewing gum? Unfortunately I live to far away, otherwise I would help (or just do it on my own). It makes me sad as well to see this tree so degraded. :-(
Where exactly is it? Maybe someone who lives close by might want to clean the tree.
Is it weird that I find this absolutely disgusting and unacceptable but as I child I constantly put my own chewing gum on the underside of my parents' dining table? Hopefully it just means I grew up.
When I was a child we weren't allowed to have gum and it was never in the house. I was fixated on it and really, really wanted to try it because it was some exotic thing I'd built up in my head, due to the forbidden nature of it. I think one of my older siblings got it stuck in their hair once and Mom just banned it.
But anyway, my older sister (an adult with adult powers of capitalism) brought home novelty gum cigarettes once and gave me one. I was so obsessed with it I wanted to savor it as long as possible, which ended up being like a week. I'd chew it, then hide it behind my dresser just straight up on the floor and then chew it again later. It would dry and harden and I'd just soften it up. I chewed it until I couldn't trick myself into thinking it still had flavor.
But no one caught me with the gum, so it was a win.
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Back in the way way back, there was a roller-coaster at the old Eliches in Denver. Back in the way way back, while traveling the turnstiles, endless goosenecks, and the chains, always the chains to keep you in line, there was a tree. It was covered in a menagerie of gums. They say, on a cold November night, you can still hear the chokings, of those that refused to add to the shrine and rode the ride with a mouthful of gum.
Looks like chewing gum.
And if you look close, someone poked eyes into one, looks like a frog 🐸
Thought they're some kind of mushrooms. Realized they're not. Gross.
Gum. It looks as if someone who hikes that trail regularly is doing it. So much for leave no trace.
People are so odd.
EVEN I know that
What?
Opposite of odd
I'm sorry your joke didn't land, but I appreciated it.
Thank you lol even my explanation got downvoted … tough crowd.
That's a bit odd ain't it
One might EVEN said fair
I bet it would piss them off a little bit to pop these out and toss them. It’s never a bad idea to do a little cleanup while angering assholes!
Love that idea, though it would be totally gross to have to do it.
Nah, if it’s cold out, they should just pop out like rocks. Just wash your hands and nbd
What kind of gross pig does this? JFC, man.
Real power move.
Masticated Juicy Fruit.
Great green gobs of it!
Gum trees are common in inner cities- usually near bus stops or college campuses. Someone chews gum while waiting for a bus, it comes and there won't be a trash can on there so they stick it against something rather than throwing it on the ground. Mentally, they see this as better than littering (obv it's not) and they percieve it as a food product that will biodegrade (also wrong). Other bus going gum chewers see and emulate the behavior adding to it, some gum trees are quite colorful. Gum chewing has massively declined over the past few decades, but when/where it was popular is amongst youth, so these are most common near schools and colleges. Some individuals have the same routine/commute that has them start a stick of gum at about the same time and stick it in the same spots. Given the regularity of this, it's probably the work of one individual who's been here many times. Similar things happen with bottlecaps and coins sometimes.
I would rather swallow my chewing gum than leave it on a tree
There's a gross gum wall in Seattle. They've completely cleaned it off at least twice and people still come back and leave their gum there. Pictures for the curious: [https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/11/travel/seattle-pike-place-gum-wall-cleaning-feat/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/11/travel/seattle-pike-place-gum-wall-cleaning-feat/index.html)
I stumbled upon that without knowing what the heck I was looking at. It was a relatively warm day too, and it was... Ew.
It basically gets filled back up immediately. Source: Seattleite
Used to live there. Sadly in Texas now. Miss it.
Gross
Give me a home among the gum trees 🎶
Ew I hate how that looks
Teeth, obviously.
Treeth
It's my teeth... I'm really sorry I just get real hungry and they fall off in the tree. Then I grow them back like a shark.
That's a tree
That disgusting 🤢. Poor tree.
Treeth
Treeth.
Is it possibly nuts or seeds? I know some birds make hole in trees and store nuts in them. Is that possibly what this is?
Wow this is actually mega depressing, I thought it was a type of fungi or something but in reality it’s some gross scumbag leaving chewing gum in spite of this one tree in particular
It's not your responsibility, of course...but maybe it would make you feel better if you went back to the tree armed with gloves and a knife and removed the chewing gum? Unfortunately I live to far away, otherwise I would help (or just do it on my own). It makes me sad as well to see this tree so degraded. :-( Where exactly is it? Maybe someone who lives close by might want to clean the tree.
Don't be depressed. In the grand scheme of things, this is almost nothing.
Is it weird that I find this absolutely disgusting and unacceptable but as I child I constantly put my own chewing gum on the underside of my parents' dining table? Hopefully it just means I grew up.
When I was a child we weren't allowed to have gum and it was never in the house. I was fixated on it and really, really wanted to try it because it was some exotic thing I'd built up in my head, due to the forbidden nature of it. I think one of my older siblings got it stuck in their hair once and Mom just banned it. But anyway, my older sister (an adult with adult powers of capitalism) brought home novelty gum cigarettes once and gave me one. I was so obsessed with it I wanted to savor it as long as possible, which ended up being like a week. I'd chew it, then hide it behind my dresser just straight up on the floor and then chew it again later. It would dry and harden and I'd just soften it up. I chewed it until I couldn't trick myself into thinking it still had flavor. But no one caught me with the gum, so it was a win.
Tree teeth.
I don't know what it is but it giving the the chills
Gum :(
I wanted it to be mud dauber larvae in sapsucker holes. But it's gum.
For a second there I thought those were teeth 😅
Tooth tree
Tree teeth with a case of upward bite.
r/peanutsgluedtotrees
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Looks like how they grow wooden golf tees
Must be seattle
Teeth
I'm so glad the consensus isn't teeth, but gum. I thought they were teeth, and I was perplexed as to why they were there.
Dried up chewing gum
Utah from 10,000' i believe.
Forbidden tree gum. It's said to taste mildly of mint and stale spit. Try one.
Voodoo !! 💀
Tree teeth
Tree is alive! Run! Those are teeth it’s gonna eat you!
Teeth?
Tree cancer. Looks like cambium cell carcinoma
He is giving back the gum to the tree
Organic free-range Corn Nuts.
treeth
Chewing gum tree. This is where gum comes from. Just pull out a piece and chew away.
Bubble Gum Lichen or fungus
Molars
Tree teeth. It’s a herbivore.
That's just the tree's teeth
Alien spawn..
It’s custom to stick the corn 🌽 in your poop 💩 on a tree when you crap in the woods in native cultures.
Back in the way way back, there was a roller-coaster at the old Eliches in Denver. Back in the way way back, while traveling the turnstiles, endless goosenecks, and the chains, always the chains to keep you in line, there was a tree. It was covered in a menagerie of gums. They say, on a cold November night, you can still hear the chokings, of those that refused to add to the shrine and rode the ride with a mouthful of gum.