[sicophiliac]

Apparently a vegetable garden is an eye sore in some communities and now this lady is possibly facing jail time for not paying the fines for her selfish, dangerous and utterly comtemptful use of her own property.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/0 ... 93516.html

[Pretorian]

One old lady already did time for not watering her lawn in Arizona or some other US desert. Why not this one?

[mattduke]

Now she's done it. She's questioned their authoritah. There is no aspect of your life not subjected to government restrictions.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'N')ow she's done it. She's questioned their authoritah. There is no aspect of your life not subjected to government restrictions.

[AgentR11]

If you buy a house in a city with a specific code, you are basically agreeing to abide by that code.

Don't want someone telling you what your front lawn should look like, don't live there.

I suspect also, that she's being a pain and refusing to pay the fine for the code violation, thus the jail threat.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'I')f you buy a house in a city with a specific code, you are basically agreeing to abide by that code.

Don't want someone telling you what your front lawn should look like, don't live there.

I suspect also, that she's being a pain and refusing to pay the fine for the code violation, thus the jail threat.

[Expatriot]

Read the code.

It says "all unpaved portions of the site shall be planted with grass or ground cover or shrubbery or other suitable live plant material."

So the code uses a bulls***, vague word like "suitable," and then the moronic government piglets come running in to apply their interpretation of the word "suitable."

I'd love to be this lady's lawyer. I'd rip the town a new one. She's facing "jail" in the sense that, if found guilty, a judge could sentence her to prison within the state law parameters. And judge that did that should be disbarred.

This is just a small example of what happens when people vote to give their own government too much power - you have overpaid, underworked morons attempting to say that "suitable" means "common," and my G-d tomatoes are not common.

[PrestonSturges]

Our town will pay you to take up the fescue and plant tropical grasses or just mulch. I'm not sure about a garden, but I have apple, figs, persimmons, pears, jujubes, and blackberries out front. The apple tree is right behind the mailbox, and it has about 50 apples this year.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Expatriot', 'R')ead the code.

It says "all unpaved portions of the site shall be planted with grass or ground cover or shrubbery or other suitable live plant material."

So the code uses a bullshit, vague word like "suitable," and then the moronic government piglets come running in to apply their interpretation of the word "suitable."

I'd love to be this lady's lawyer. I'd rip the town a new one.

She's facing "jail" in the sense that, if found guilty, a judge could sentence her to prison within the state law parameters. And judge that did that should be disbarred.

This is just a small example of what happens when people vote to give their own government too much power - you have overpaid, underworked morons attempting to say that "suitable" means "common," and my G-d tomatoes are not common.

[dolanbaker]

Depends on what she's growing!

[mattduke]

She is not facing jail. She is facing death. That is what they'll threaten next if she refuses (rightly) to go to their cage.

[Expatriot]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'S')he is not facing jail. She is facing death. That is what they'll threaten next if she refuses (rightly) to go to their cage.

[Cog]

pstarr never met a government bureaucratic process he didn't like or a tax increase he didn't embrace. Too bad for him the voters didn't see it that way in 2010.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'Y')ou people are nuts looking for gubmint boogyman under every flower bed. We're talking about a little minor petty bureacrat here. In some tiny town. And you paranoids have turned this into the freakin ILLUMINATI. Jeezusssss. Calm down.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'S')he is not facing jail. She is facing death. That is what they'll threaten next if she refuses (rightly) to go to their cage.

[Sixstrings]

Here's a pic of the garden:

http://assets.theagitator.com/wp-content/uploads/CM-Capture-21.png

It looks nice, better than grass assuming things are maintained. The city people are idiots, listen to how they define "suitable:"

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')owever, Oak Park’s Planning and Technology Director Kevin Rulkowski says the city disagrees. He says, “If you look at the dictionary, suitable means common. You can look all throughout the city and you’ll never find another vegetable garden that consumes the entire front yard.”
http://www.theagitator.com/2011/07/07/does-michelle-obama-know-about-this/

[RedStateGreen]

Should send that official to Camazotz.

[TreeFarmer]

That is a nice looking garden, especially for her first year.

It is time to become a libertarian if you value any freedom at all. Why do I say that, because it is equally likely that it is a democratic or a republican administration in the town that is responsible for the charges. You just can't trust either party.

Peace