Rant: A neighbor said 'just sink the posts, the ground will hold them' and I cringed

I was grabbing a coffee yesterday and overheard a guy telling his buddy he was going to build his own privacy fence. He said he didn't need concrete for the posts because the dirt in our area is 'good enough'. We get serious freeze-thaw cycles here in Springfield, and I've seen so many fences lean or fail from that. It takes one bad winter to push those posts right out of the ground. I wanted to say something, but it wasn't my place. How do you guys handle situations where you see a DIY project about to go really wrong? Do you ever step in?

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angelab6213d ago

So you just let him walk away?

henrybaker13d ago

Had to, he wasn't worth the fight.