People need to show a little common sense where they plant these things and cacti.

One nearby apartment complex has a row of those or similar plants right along the public sidewalk that runs from my complex to the local grocer, and they take no trouble to trim the plants out of the sidewalk. When pedestrians pass going opposite directions, one of them gets scraped. The street is a major thoroughfare; stepping out in the street is not an option. I keep hoping an easily annoyed attorney will walk there and take offense.