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garden police gone wild?
In article , Aaron Baugher
wrote: animaux writes: Not only did he threaten people, his 11 year old daughter said something which put red flags up on the whole block. She asked another little girl if she ever had sex, or wanted to have sex. These are 11 year old girls. You realize, of course, that some schools start sex education in kindergarten nowadays. That may not be the case in your area, but it's drastically jumping to conclusions to think an 11-year-old got such curiosity at home, no matter how weird her family is otherwise. They're getting bombarded with it from all sides. If you hate someone because you're the sort of person who is all-round filled with hate, tacking on "PLUS he rapes his children" is an easy slander. It's only interesting that "he has a basketball hoop" was the more important "crime" until people didn't agree, then "he rapes his kids" was tacked on as secondary to having an unacceptable basketball hoop. As in "it takes two to tango" it might or might not be true that the given neighbor is a horrible crazy person; we certainly have no credible testimony to it being so, but it is at least as likely that HE has crazy neighbors! -paggers Come to think of it, when I was 11 years old, a school friend used to pass around his mom's trashy romance novels -- the kind with fully descriptive sex, not the tamer ones that stop at the bedroom door. Luckily for their morals, most of the kids probably couldn't read yet. -- "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/ |
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I would call Child Protective Services, and you can be anonymous, regarding
concerns that sexual abuse is occurring in that house. Otherwise, the little girl continues to be a victim and will grow up to be .... God knows what. Roz azusa |
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paghat,
I believe the concern about the basketball hoop was that he used it to sordidly display his he-man hunting prowess. Roz az usa |
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K. Reece wrote: "Bill Oliver" wrote in message ... In article FztCa.45945$hd6.9249@fed1read05, wrote: Why on earth does he hang dead deer from the basketball hoop? And why does he get away with it? Roz Probably to age it. You do know, don't you, that the steaks you buy in the supermarket have been hanging for around 21 days? While commercial meat houses hang beef in cool temperatures for long periods, the tradition for game is to hang it at ambient temperature for shorter periods. The "gamey" taste of meat harvested by hunting rather than packaged at the supermarket is in large part due to insufficient ageing. billo They might have been in the past but beef is not aged by commercial processors anymore. It costs too much money in shrinkage. The beef hangs in the "hot box" for all of 48 hours max before it's cut, packaged and shipped. After it's package it doesn't hang around all that long before it's shipped either. There's a lot of it that goes "direct ship" too. There's a lot of it that is cut and packaged and on a truck in less than 48 hours from the time it walks in the door. My DH works in a beef packing plant. Kathy No kidding. I always heard that beef was aged for 21 days. billo |
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paghat wrote:
If you hate someone because you're the sort of person who is all-round filled with hate, tacking on "PLUS he rapes his children" is an easy slander. It's only interesting that "he has a basketball hoop" was the more important "crime" until people didn't agree, then "he rapes his kids" was tacked on as secondary to having an unacceptable basketball hoop. I'd have to agree. Hanging game from a basketball hoop is an annoyance. It's not even in the same league as raping his kids. "He rapes his kids" is not something incidental to hanging game, or any other annoying habit or even all the annoying habits you can come up with. If there is *any* credible reason to believe that he may be molesting his daughter, the right thing to do is not wait until you have "proof". The right thing to do is report him to the proper authorities immediately. If he is molesting his children, every day you wait is another day of hell for them. If your suspicions are so baseless that you feel reporting it is wrong, then bringing it up in any forum says more about you than him. Especially if you're bringing it up only to bolster your arguments that his annoying habits are worth taking him to court. For God's sake. Dead game hanging from a basketball hoop is nothing compared to raping his children, and your primary concern has been your declining property values. If you think he's raping his kids, REPORT IT. Don't use it as an "...oh, and I think he also..." to justify your anger at him for being an annoying neighbor. -- Warren H. ========== Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my employer, my friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife. Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is coincidental. No animals were hurt in the writing of this response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants to go outside now. |
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"Bill Oliver" wrote in message ... In article , K. Reece wrote: "Bill Oliver" wrote in message ... In article FztCa.45945$hd6.9249@fed1read05, wrote: They might have been in the past but beef is not aged by commercial processors anymore. It costs too much money in shrinkage. The beef hangs in the "hot box" for all of 48 hours max before it's cut, packaged and shipped. After it's package it doesn't hang around all that long before it's shipped either. There's a lot of it that goes "direct ship" too. There's a lot of it that is cut and packaged and on a truck in less than 48 hours from the time it walks in the door. My DH works in a beef packing plant. Kathy No kidding. I always heard that beef was aged for 21 days. billo If you've ever wondered why beef isn't as good as it used to be that's why. Shrinkage costs money on something that's sold by weight and when beef is hung to age it loses moisture and weighs less. If you want good aged beef go find a place that processes deer for hunters. They'll also sell beef and pork. Kathy |
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On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 23:23:59 GMT, "Warren" wrote:
paghat wrote: If you hate someone because you're the sort of person who is all-round filled with hate, tacking on "PLUS he rapes his children" is an easy slander. It's only interesting that "he has a basketball hoop" was the more important "crime" until people didn't agree, then "he rapes his kids" was tacked on as secondary to having an unacceptable basketball hoop. I'd have to agree. Hanging game from a basketball hoop is an annoyance. It's not even in the same league as raping his kids. "He rapes his kids" is not something incidental to hanging game, or any other annoying habit or even all the annoying habits you can come up with. If there is *any* credible reason to believe that he may be molesting his daughter, the right thing to do is not wait until you have "proof". The right thing to do is report him to the proper authorities immediately. If he is molesting his children, every day you wait is another day of hell for them. If your suspicions are so baseless that you feel reporting it is wrong, then bringing it up in any forum says more about you than him. Especially if you're bringing it up only to bolster your arguments that his annoying habits are worth taking him to court. For God's sake. Dead game hanging from a basketball hoop is nothing compared to raping his children, and your primary concern has been your declining property values. If you think he's raping his kids, REPORT IT. Don't use it as an "...oh, and I think he also..." to justify your anger at him for being an annoying neighbor. First of all, nobody disagreed with me, then forced me to make any statement about raping his kid. He has been reported to proper authorities for about 5 months. Three sets of parents on our block got together and made the report. So far, nothing has proven conclusive that he is molesting her. So far. The basketball hoop was not the thing. The dead animal was the inappropriate use for it. I'm sorry to anyone who was offended thinking I was ever comparing molestation to something so mundane. I was not. Someone else eluded that I was. |
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"animaux" wrote in message ... We have the same ordinance as you. Trailers, boats, cars on blocks, etc. are not tolerated unless inside the fence and not seen from the street or anyone else's backyard. It's a civil matter. I've asked him for three years to move it. I'm giving him till August. I think I've been fair. It has been recorded for three years that I've wanted it out of sight, as well as have signatures of 27 families who also want it out. You're so pathetic! How is having a trailer outside someones house a problem? Maybe in the UK we have different trailers to you, or maybe it's because I grew up in the country where farmyard trailers were pretty normal sights around peoples homes. Whichever, it's up yo him how he lives his life! Why don't you take photo's and put them on a webpage so we can all see when a terrible crime he's commiting. You'd have a field day here - we have a meadow part of the garden, the planting is all skewiff and a car on the driveway that's never moved - but I LOVE it here! I'm definatly glad people don't force colours upon us - our old window trims are the same untercoated grey that they have been for years where we never got round to finishing painting them. I've never heard of restrictions on this sort of thing. America really puzzles me sometimes. Charlie. |
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What is you problem, Charlie?
How does her jurisdiction having the ordinance make HER pathetic? She isn't the one that made the law, you nimrod. Posting pictures of her neighbors transgressions on the Internet might be interpreted as harassment by some slick lawyer. You limies have a lot of room to be poopooing crazy laws. Your country have far more crazy laws and hundreds of years head start making them over us poor Yankees. For example, your country's draconian Cities restrictions have made importing and exporting plants from your country impossible and has seriously hurt your country's nursery trade. If that isn't crazy, what is? Look in your own back yard before criticizing the country that saved your up-tight asses in two world wars. Charlie wrote in message ... "animaux" wrote in message ... We have the same ordinance as you. Trailers, boats, cars on blocks, etc. are not tolerated unless inside the fence and not seen from the street or anyone else's backyard. It's a civil matter. I've asked him for three years to move it. I'm giving him till August. I think I've been fair. It has been recorded for three years that I've wanted it out of sight, as well as have signatures of 27 families who also want it out. You're so pathetic! How is having a trailer outside someones house a problem? Maybe in the UK we have different trailers to you, or maybe it's because I grew up in the country where farmyard trailers were pretty normal sights around peoples homes. Whichever, it's up yo him how he lives his life! Why don't you take photo's and put them on a webpage so we can all see when a terrible crime he's commiting. You'd have a field day here - we have a meadow part of the garden, the planting is all skewiff and a car on the driveway that's never moved - but I LOVE it here! I'm definatly glad people don't force colours upon us - our old window trims are the same untercoated grey that they have been for years where we never got round to finishing painting them. I've never heard of restrictions on this sort of thing. America really puzzles me sometimes. Charlie. |
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I think it's pathetic that she's bothered about a trailer being left on a
front driveway! I also think it's pathetic that there are people who make up stupid rules to say what colour you can or can't have your house painted, that you can't have more than a certian amount of cars on your driveway or that your grass can't be more than 2" long! It's ridiculous. And yes, we had a "head start" over making laws, but at least our country actually has history more than 200 years old. And don't bring the World Wars into it, this is niether the time or the place. At least we don't start them. Charlie. "Cereoid-UR12yo" wrote in message m... What is you problem, Charlie? How does her jurisdiction having the ordinance make HER pathetic? She isn't the one that made the law, you nimrod. Posting pictures of her neighbors transgressions on the Internet might be interpreted as harassment by some slick lawyer. You limies have a lot of room to be poopooing crazy laws. Your country have far more crazy laws and hundreds of years head start making them over us poor Yankees. For example, your country's draconian Cities restrictions have made importing and exporting plants from your country impossible and has seriously hurt your country's nursery trade. If that isn't crazy, what is? Look in your own back yard before criticizing the country that saved your up-tight asses in two world wars. Charlie wrote in message ... "animaux" wrote in message ... We have the same ordinance as you. Trailers, boats, cars on blocks, etc. are not tolerated unless inside the fence and not seen from the street or anyone else's backyard. It's a civil matter. I've asked him for three years to move it. I'm giving him till August. I think I've been fair. It has been recorded for three years that I've wanted it out of sight, as well as have signatures of 27 families who also want it out. You're so pathetic! How is having a trailer outside someones house a problem? Maybe in the UK we have different trailers to you, or maybe it's because I grew up in the country where farmyard trailers were pretty normal sights around peoples homes. Whichever, it's up yo him how he lives his life! Why don't you take photo's and put them on a webpage so we can all see when a terrible crime he's commiting. You'd have a field day here - we have a meadow part of the garden, the planting is all skewiff and a car on the driveway that's never moved - but I LOVE it here! I'm definatly glad people don't force colours upon us - our old window trims are the same untercoated grey that they have been for years where we never got round to finishing painting them. I've never heard of restrictions on this sort of thing. America really puzzles me sometimes. Charlie. |
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"Charlie" wrote:
I've never heard of restrictions on this sort of thing. America really puzzles me sometimes. I'm sure other countries have some communities like this. A variety of planned communities have sprung up over the last 20-30. This is where a small twon is virtually planned. Everything matches, there are color schemes. More afluent commuities try to do similar things. Trust me this only happens in well-to-do areas, often within sometimes gated communities with clearly defined property limits. People pay to live in these manicured suburbias. They have commitees that run them. Older natural neighborhoods don't have such extremes. While town/city ordances might adopt certain limitations on grass height to avoid fires it would never apply to city-owned properties especially those in poorer parts of town since they are the ones the city will allow to be regularly overgrown with 5 foot high wild grasses and weeds. DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) |
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In article , "Charlie"
wrote: You're so pathetic! How is having a trailer outside someones house a problem? Maybe in the UK we have different trailers to you, or maybe it's because I grew up in the country where farmyard trailers were pretty normal sights around peoples homes. Whichever, it's up yo him how he lives his life! Why don't you take photo's and put them on a webpage so we can all see when a terrible crime he's commiting. You'd have a field day here - we have a meadow part of the garden, the planting is all skewiff and a car on the driveway that's never moved - but I LOVE it here! I'm definatly glad people don't force colours upon us - our old window trims are the same untercoated grey that they have been for years where we never got round to finishing painting them. I've never heard of restrictions on this sort of thing. America really puzzles me sometimes. Charlie. I don't like trailer houses myself. I seriously believe even "po' folk" could be more aesthetic than that & an old wooden shed, a lean-to, or a teepee could be beautiful in a way a trailer house never can be -- so being poor isn't excuse enough to trucking in a square tin house & plopping it down on a fourth of a lot right next door to another quarter-lot just like it. There are exceptions. I've seen some vintage trailers that have none of the horror-associations of doublewides & mobile homes; people make fun of silverstreams that look like toasters, but I think those are beautiful. You don't see that many. What you see is rectangle tin boxes & doublewides that just reek of ugly. Another exception: In Eugene there's a community of people who live in cedar-shingled trucks & buses that people live in full-time, teency little homes on wheels cute as the devil, an enclave mainly of old-time hippies. Beautiful homes those are! And because very small, they live minimal-consumer lives without nearly the number of harmful impacts against nature. But there's just no excuse for one of those rectangle tin boxes or a double-wide. A metal doublewide that goes BANG CLACK! every time the sun bakes the metal roof is built ugly & stays ugly, & being poor is no excuse unless someone is saying poverty makes people inherently tasteless & ugly. To live inside such ugliness makes way too many of the people therein ugly. But it isn't livin' poor makes people white trash, it's livin' ugly. I've been in some back-wood areas of the Olympic Penninsula & even in the woodland areas not far from Portland Oregon, & people are living in hand-built shacks & cabins & log homes of the most extraodinary beauty & charm, & I'm sure some people think of them as gobber-toothed hilljacks & hilljanes going "hyuk hyuk," but I think they've selected a gorgeous way of living without needing much money &without using up many of the earth's resources. So when I find myself thinking of terms of "Trailer Trash" I don't mean the working poor or the rural minimalists or the shack-dwelling Snuffy Smiths of the wilderness -- I mean ugly people in ugly tin houses living ugly drunken lives, with a growing pile of beer bottles & tin cans just off the porch where some alcholic Klan member tosses his empties & the bean cans from the cold dinners his bruised-eyed cousin-wife opens for him as dinner. Rural farm life, though, with meadows instead of creepy lawns, THAT's an aesthetic ideal to strive for, & the shocking thing is how many of the ordinance-passing-small-town-politicians & home-association-nazis are horrified by what in essence is an IMPROVEMENT over the life they'd rather impose on everyone in the name of Property Values. More & more people DO realize that Rustic is Better, but unfortunately it is also not aesthetic to spend a lot of time arguing politics with morons, so the morons end up passing the ordinances, & rusticity gets defined as "run down" so that that wonderfully funky wooden garage by law has to be torn down, though an ugly tin garage with a tin door is perfectly all right. All the green margin trees get zoned as too close to a sidewalk or not permitted overhang the road, so are all cut down, but paving over the green margin to park on it is all right. Every meadow gets legally defined as a hiding place for vermin & gets herbicided into dust, but turning your property into a gravel pit is okay. Appling high-maintenance chemical-devouring lawns are REQUIRED, when it's the noisy air-polluting lawnmowers rather than the meadows that SHOULD be outlawed. So when people start talking about the evil neighbors lawns being unmowed, or a basketball hoop nailed over the garage door that has GOT to go, or a Model T used as a giant planter, or whose window trim is painted an unacceptable color -- you just know that these whiners' have sterile imaginations & meaningless lives & will not be happy unless they can impose their way on everyone until, as Malvina Reynolds put it, "they're all made out of ticky-tacky & they all look just the same." -paghat the ratgirl -- "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/ |
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Thankfully there are many MANY areas in the USA where those HOA's are NOT
welcome nor even wanted. Most of the time it's a new track of homes that sets up hoa's. And being a RENTER, I would not join one anyway, but if I ever did own a home, (be it a house of trailer), I'd never live anyplace where a hoa could hog tie you to their way of thinking. This trailer park is at lest 50 years old, in the last 5 years, two old trailers where replaced with newer ones (under 10 years old). And as I said, I can still do all the gardening I want, what with some 300 Iris and other plants growing, I'm always got something to do and with my astronomy actives, they see my big dobsonian telescope in operation a lot too. I once knew a guy who bought a home and set up his HAM Radio ant's up for his radios, the HOA, which had no rules about those things, made up and passed a rule saying he couldn't have them and when he wouldn't take them down the sued and LOST, because the rules from the FCC superseaded any and all local rules. Last time I was by his home he not only had those up but had a big dish up too. -- In This Universe The Night was Falling,The Shadows were lenghtening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the Stars were still young and the light of morning lingered: and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again. Arthur C. Clarke "The City & The Stars" SIAR www.starlords.org Telescope Buyers FAQ http://home.inreach.com/starlord Bishop's Car Fund http://www.bishopcarfund.Netfirms.com/ Starlord's Personal Page http://starlord-personal.netfirms.com Freelance Writers Shop http://www.freelancewrittersshop.netfirms.com "Charlie" wrote in message ... --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.478 / Virus Database: 275 - Release Date: 5/6/03 |
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