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A Japanese man planted three banana trees in the median strip(中央隔离带) of a road in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture. The man watered them daily for two years before anyone noticed them. Recently, he was ordered to remove these banana trees. These banana trees finally got so big that they began to impinge on drivers’ field of view (视线). That may lead to traffic accidents. The Japanese man was ordered to remove the trees, or risk spending up to a year in jail or pay a fine of 500,000 yen ($3,350).

The Kurume banana trees had been getting nationwide attention for weeks, and on the day of their removal, many news reporters came. They interviewed the man who had planted them and filmed him trying to eat one of the bananas harvested from them. It was too green to be eaten, but the man ate it anyway. “It’s lonely… I feel lonely without my beautiful bananas,” the man told reporters after removing the three banana trees. 

Luckily, the banana trees have found new homes. Two of them were planted in the garden of an 80-year-old man. He promised to take good care of them. What about the third one? The “banana man” gave it to a friend as a birthday present.