In tough economic times, and limited government services, is this really the best use of taxpayer funds, law enforcement and government resources?
And just think of the tremendous carbon footprint of all that heavy equipment! /sarc
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I love Blondie - she lies on camera, and tells the man to go inside, as though he were a disobedient child being sent to his room!
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Yeah. That lady's a piece of work all right!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's a good use of taxpayer money. And a bunch of lies on top of it. What was the rationale for removing the poles?
ReplyDeleteI believe the rationale was that the poles were in the public "right of way". So, on a busy street, a driver who strays just a little bit off the pavement wouldn't run into one.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the one they showed was on a cul de sac. It would be very hard to argue that there was a threat to public safety to anyone who wasn't on a collision course with this guy's house!
Proof - I was an Instrumentman for a surveying company here in Jacksonville until I got laid off. Coincided with Barack's Ascension. I am very familiar with what 'right of way' is. What is yours is based on that. This is yours - this is the city's/county's/whoever's. It is amazing how few people know how little of what they think of as their property that they actually own. A basic guide is back of the sidewalk, or first expansion joint of your driveway. If you look down a line from your mailbox or telephone pole you will they it all line up. This is on purpose. They are in the 'right of way'. You don't own that piece of your yard. BUT - Heaven help the fool that says 'since I don't own it, I don't have to care for it'. Nice try. Even though the city or county owns all that is between your right of the way and the guy across the street's right of way (50' or 60' - whatever it may be) - YOU are responsible for it. Including cutting the grass on city property. You WILL mow your yard from the property line to the road. Or be fined. A cul de sac is different. It works on a radius from the center of the cul de sac instead of a distance from the center line of a road. But the same principle applies. OK - I have turned this comment into a book. Sorry. If the government owns it, they own it. 'Nuff said.
ReplyDeleteYeah. I never knew what an "easement" was until I lived out in the country. It may have been the neighbor's land, but I could cross it whenever I pleased.
ReplyDeleteIn Ohio, they call that parcel of land between the street and the sidewalk a "tree yard". I'd never heard that before. The city can plant trees there, but I still had to mow and water it.
Sorry to hear you were one of the early victims of the Obama economy. Hopefully you're doing okay.