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Location: Springfield, Illinois
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Re: I fought the law and the law won
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: over yonder
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Re: I fought the law and the law won
Illegal is illegal in the eyes of the court system. That is the only point I was trying to make.
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Wendell, Idaho
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Re: I fought the law and the law won
This is a tough subject. I agree Illegal is Illegal, but what sucks is when somebody moves into the neighborhood and gets the rules changed in their favor. Here in Southern Idaho, the ground is all rock, so we blast for basically everything. We have been plagued by problems like this. People move into these new highend subdivions that have just been built. We have been there for months blasting, and sawing in water and sewer lines. They want a huge house with a basement, so we blast one in for them. Another family buys a lot next door, also wanting a huge house with a basement. Well we have to do preblast inspections on house #1, sismographing, and everything else to cover our asses, but the people in the 1st house say hey wait a minute, we don't want any blasting around here, you can't do that, then they get the rules changed so that there will be no blasting assuring the 2nd people and others following basically no basements. This is crap. Its the same old thing "It's fine for me but not for you."
If something is being done that is illegal, it needs to be stopped, but if it is legal and still de-values someone elses property, that's life. We have turned into a country who worry too much about what our neighbors are doing. Busting the nighborhood Meth house or the 50 illegal's that live in the same house on the corner is one thing, but leave the guy alone who makes a couple extra bucks to feed his family by fixing cars in his driveway after work. Everybody needs to worry about themselves more and the neighbors less, and we would be a better place for it.
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Springfield, Illinois
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Re: I fought the law and the law won
Thats whats called a double standard. We can do it but your not going to do it. I had an ex that was like that...she could do what she wanted...but I couldnt. This is why she is an ex. She is now making someone else life miserable. I dont live in the nicest part of Springfield IL. This place has car sitting all over the place. The neighbor that is causing most of the problems here...has the whole neighborhood mad. The neighbor on the other side of this guy...told him to get off his property or he was going to drop his old ass. The neighbor on the other side of me...is a county cop. He got crappy with him...now the cop is waiting for his chance to nail him when he is driving. The neighbor down on the corner...has a International Scout. Restored. This guy calls on him once a week cause he doesnt drive it at all. So the guy moves it just enough so it cant be messed with. The only thing I dont understand there is... the guy has a garage. He wont put it in there.
Now this neighbor thats causing trouble for everyone has ticked off 4 guys that would love to catch him in a dark alley. People need to keep there noses in their own business. Just because I have a trailer and a truck....that is a DD in the drive....he thinks that has to go. Just because its old. Hes old too. Maybe he needs to go.
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Parkersburg WV
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Re: I fought the law and the law won
The yard police can be ridiculous and unfair sometimes. I live in the city and you cant offend the "neighbors" by having an (unregistered or untagged) vehicle in your yard or driveway. It can look like hell or not even run, but cant offend the "neighbors" by not having a current sticker on it. If the yard police spot it, you have 72 hours to get rid of it or comply. But, it is perfectly legal to have a couple of dogs in your yard yapping all night long. Several years back in Ohio, I had no choice but to send a very nice 68 442 to the crusher because of a complaint and lack of storage. Is it legal to put a privacy fence around your place and paint a nice junk yard scene on the outside?
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There are degrees of unacceptability ..crack dens, repeated late night partys, burnouts in the drive etc, etc, are for most of us unacceptable, but storing your old parts cars on your own land wouldn't get me running for the phone. And just quoting legalities doesn't make it right either...there are numerous laws out there that are as nonsensical as a drinking ban in a pub. get rid of ridiculous and restrictive laws and bring back comon sense.
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Re: I fought the law and the law won
Gotta agree with Shane on this one!
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: I fought the law and the law won
"Is it legal to put a privacy fence around your place and paint a nice junk yard scene on the outside?"
i like that idea.
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: OKC
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Re: I fought the law and the law won
Many members have made reference to intances like that and that it was considered art - so it was ok. I considered having a mural painted on my fence at my first property. I've considered just painting the backside (the complaining neighbor's side) a bright orange or green. Something extremely gaudy.
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Location: DFW
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Re: I fought the law and the law won
As bad as the above is, think of kids these days. They have it tough in some ways. Xero tolerance at school, etc. A friend was telling me tonight that her/their HOA has made a rule against kids playing by the creek catching crawdads and poking things with sticks. Her son is 10.
Apparently the HOA is concerned about the environmental damage from 10 year olds with sticks... Huh!? Sorry if its off topic! Last edited by 72lb4x4; 06-14-2008 at 01:08 AM. |
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Location: Murray, Kentucky
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Re: I fought the law and the law won
This got me to thinking about my neighborhood. I live out in the country with no quazi-nazi hoa's, but there is still a state law that you can have only one unregistered vehicle and it must be hidden from public view (car cover, garage, behind a fence, etc.)
This is obviously not strictly enforced in some areas. Where the problem comes in is when the farmers sellout to developers and they subdivide and sell to people who don't seem to realize they now live in the country. They aren't accustomed to my rooster crowing at 5:30 (I told him not to, but he's hard-headed...), people running coon-dogs over the weekend, tractors and combines having right-of way, people dove-deer-squirrel hunting, or me taking a leak off my back deck... I've had one "lady" mention my mini-junkyard (I have 4 acres and I have 3 trucks parked at the very back that aren't visable from the main road, but if you walk the trail back to the natural spring you can look over the hedgerow and see them) I told her that when she pays my property taxes, then I will consider moving them. But I realize that some day someone else's "rights" will determine what I can keep in my own back yard. On that day I will become the old man who chases kids out of my apple tree and calls the cops when the neighbors dog gets loose... Rg P.S. I remember when I was thinking of buying some property from my grandmother to build a house. It was 2 acres at the very back of her 150 acres, so she very seldom went out there. The property line was adjacent to a subdivision, so I parked at the end of the subdivision cul-de-sac (the division was platted out to my grandmothers line, but she wouldn't sell to the developer so he cul de-sac'd it) and walked out to the property and was looking it over. There were golf balls EVERYWHERE! I went back to my truck and grabbed an empty 5 gallon paint can and started gathering the golf balls up. Well, before you know it some guy came over and asked who I was and what was I doing. I told him my name and that I was picking up golf balls, then I asked his name and he told me and said those are my golf balls. I said are you sure, because I'm taking them to the sheriff's department and filing a complaint of trespassing and illegal dumping. That guy started backpeddling and saying he wasn't dumping that he picked them up on a regular basis, so I asked if he was a habitual trespasser. He said he wasn't hurting anything and I said that's not the point. I also told him I was thinking of putting in a chicken house on that property, you should have seen his face. Anyway I got a bunch of golfballs and had a good time watching him sweat.
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: I fought the law and the law won
Its like the old Hank Williams song "if you wind your business, then you'll be buzy all the time''
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Re: I fought the law and the law won
that is why i live in an apartment
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