I think huge hefty bags covered with leaves would be good for several reasons.
If you are homeless, you could put them over you for a great nights sleep. The coppers would think you were merely a pile of fall folaige.
The kids could make leaf tents to hide in, or sit on them while having a picnic lunch. Heck they could even stack them up and then jump on em.
When done you could just invert them, stuff em with *your* dead leaves, and then use them to hold them till the truck comes to get them.
Hefty Leaves.-- blissmiss, Oct 12 2008 ghilli suit, OK it's not just a bag! http://rustybayonet.com/pro905416.html [xandram, Oct 13 2008] why hefty?
just thinking of you - a programme with Stephen Fry in your part of the world on TV at present.-- po, Oct 12 2008 she said hefty bags.-- po, Oct 12 2008 she also said "gargabe"-- FlyingToaster, Oct 12 2008 //she also said "gargabe//and "folaige"-- coprocephalous, Oct 13 2008 Who scrambled my brain on the 12th and then hung me out to dry with this dribble? (God, the things you do while on library time!!!)-- blissmiss, Oct 28 2008 You could put them over trees in the fall and confuse the hell out of people.-- theGem, Oct 29 2008 // why hefty? // If they weren't hefty, then the wind might blow them off you while you slept ... because you wouldn't want to sleep *inside* them, because, being plastic, they'd not be breathable.
Also, if they weren't hefty, then you'd miss the spectacle of someone kicking through piles of fallen leaves and stubbing a toe.
For these two functions, you could just use normal leaves, but weigh down the bag's corners with concealed bricks.
However, I also like the idea of expecting a leaf to tumble delicately from a branch, and then seeing it drop straight down like a hefty thing. For this, you would need to mould the leaf from, say, copper.
I see this as a 'defeating expectations' aesthetic idea, a bit like some of [xenzag]'s... but I may be talking gargabe.-- pertinax, Oct 30 2008 Why invert them to put the leaves in? It would be more attractive than a bunch of plastic bags at curbside to leave them leafy side out.-- nomocrow, Oct 30 2008 Agreed, and also the gargabe collector could easily tell the leaves from the regular gargabe.-- phundug, Oct 30 2008 Gargabe, I thought that was an aborigine that lived in the outback and ate dingos or was that a dingo that ate aborigine. It's been a long time since I Googled it.-- theGem, Oct 30 2008 random, halfbakery