More bureaucrats with zero common sense.

Quirky garden artist Henry Docter has been surreptitiously planting flowers in public places on four continents since 1979. His unauthorized beautification efforts have frequently aroused surprise and delight — but never a problem until this month, when he ran afoul of Washington’s Metro transit system.

Metro threatened Docter with “arrest, fines and imprisonment” if he dared to weed, water or otherwise tend to more than 1,000 morning glories and other flowers whose seeds he planted in 176 barren flower boxes alongside the top stretch of the north escalators at the Dupont Circle station.

Rather than talk to this man and work out a quick and easy accommodation — he’s willing to work for $1 and/or sign a waiver releasing government from liability should be hurt himself — they threaten him with vast power of government.

These folks have a future at the IRS.