Clip it, clueless
   Hedges beside sidewalks are fine; hedges hanging over them aren't. If you've got one of these, keep it trimmed, not sticking out so far that people have to step off the pavement to get around it or else risk their clothes being marked or mutilated.
  The example here is bad enough; at least the day is fine and both the overgrown greenery and the boulevard are dry. But it could just as easily be raining, the hedge dripping wet and the boulevard a quagmire. And of course the obstruction will still be there in the winter, each branch loaded with snow or sheathed in ice and the boulevard barred by the piled-up frozen wake of the sidewalk plow.
   Have you noticed, too, how often property-owners who let their shaggy shrubbery grow this intrusive seem to prefer the kind with thorns?  Not only inconsiderate but passive-agressive. Walk with a machete.