GardenBanter.co.uk - View Single Post

02-06-2003, 05:08 PM

In article ,
unya (Purchgdss) wrote:

His junk heap and trailer and b-ball hoop that nobody ever
plays with are going to go. We have a lot of money invested in our homes and
his house is the first you see when you enter the gates.

No different than the "garden police".
sigh I'm so grateful I don't have a "neighborhood association"/home
nazi's in
my subdivision. I purposely bought where I did *because* there isn't one.

I agree the attitude is entirely "neighbhood association nazi," a very
fine turn of phrase, & going off-the-deep-end even trying to ban someone's
basketball hoop seems like a satire on what it means to BE a neighborhood
associaton nazi. It's too bad the empowering the powerless results in such
abuses, but abuse of small power seems more often the rule than the
exception.

I wouldn't believe anyone on earth could be that churlish & moronic & get
neighborhood enforcement for their demented perspective on how a neighbor
should live, except a friend of mine bought into one of those
association-controlled hideous housing projects, wherein no one of human
value will ever fit in. She learned the hard way that when you sign away
your property rights to a random bunch of "N.A.N.s," you're gonna get
screwed. The Associaton had even banned planting trees in any of the
homes' back yards (which were enormous back yards). That Association had
seriously banned fences, trees, or gardens, & were die-hards about
enforcing the laws, & during Association meetings two or three crazy-ass
diseased ****s who'd lived there longest ruled the roost. Every home had a
half-acre or more of land out back, but they were banned from using it any
way -- except as a lawn maintained by the Association. This was simply so
the company they hired to mow it wouldn't have to mow around anything or
have any fences in the way.

Still, I had to ask her, why'd you move in that development in the first
place? She DID sign the stupid agreement that attempted to control every
tiny aspect of one's personal property use from what was permitted under a
car port to how tall the front yards' permissible shrubbery could be. The
reason she bought into it, she said, was she got a half-acre of land with
the house & it didn't cost a dime more than a similar house on a lot. But
after a couple years of realizing she wasn't ever going to be allowed to
use the land for anything, she bailed out & got another place without
crazy-ass home association nazis to contend with.

While in the city, there's an Coop Apartment complex with the same kind of
"Association" ruling it, & because it is not the government, they were
legally permitted to ban black people, asians, & women of childbearing
age, cuz they hated kids. I don't exaggerate, they even banned the use of
typewriters after ten o'clock -- deaf old feebs who listened to radios &
televisions at 80 decibals afraid someone might be rattling their
typewriters at midnight. I had a musician friend who lived in that
building; he completely soundproofed his place so he could play his piano
when he liked -- plus so he wouldn't have to listen to their rackety
televisions -- & the deaf old feebs STILL kvetched at him because rules
are rules even if they couldn't hear him.

To some extent, I figure if someone signs on for one of those appalling
communities, they'll have to live by the appalling rules -- like if you
sign a contract to pay $50 a month for five years until you own a small
brown dog turd, sure it wasn't worth it, but that was no secret when you
agreed to buy the pricy turd. Of course, when the N.A.N.s are capable of
continuously adding new stupid regulations which you never signed on for
at the beginning, it's kind of an endless injustice.

It's worse though when those same types of crazed loons take over an
entire town by getting on a ruling city counsel & begin to work on
bringing about their vision of the ideal community by use of Ordinances
and Fines.Their ideal would be evenly spaced rows of identical ticky-tacky
houses with concrete pads painted green for a yard, & a row of rocks
painted white for a hedge. They begin first by redefining meadows as fire
hazards & ornamental grass as places for vermin to hide & start fining
people who have an acre of land suited for wild pheasants & native birds,
demanding every square inch of meadow inside the town limits be slathered
in herbicides & turned into a dusty hell hole -- completely phobic against
nature. These are often people who regard everyone but themselves as of
suspicious character, & one nearby town passed an ordinance against art
lofts because they were convinced all artists are faggots & don't need any
artists moving to town. I watched them discussing this on Public Access
Town Counsil, & couldn't decide if the ordinance against faggots or the
ordinance against pet snakes was stupidest. They got their anti-artloft
rule, but the anti-pets rule was squelched this time. They'll keep trying
though.

These people are welcome to their ugly lives, but give them an ounce of
power, they do all they can to impose their ugly standards on the private
lives of others.

-paghat the ratgirl

I have a basketball hoop for my son who doesn't play with it much anymore, as
do my neighbors. Also have a swing set at the rear that was smashed by tree
branches in the ice storm. Haven't figured out how to remove the concrete set
pieces yet and being I'm a single mom, I don't have anyone to help me.

I'm sure there are more than a few violations of the home nazi's at my house.

Just my 2 cents.........
Christine

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/