This Dad’s Awesome Cardboard Fort For His Kids Violates City Code

Buzzfeed ^ | 4-6-2015 | Salvador Hernandez

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[aragorn]

I so wanted one of those, but could never get my mom to agree to order it. First time I've ever seen a picture of what it really looked like!

[Grams A]

Yeah for this dad and for building something with his children. This family would be right at home in our neighborhood where kids are always building something and mostly out of odds and ends. These children’s memories of their dad doing something constructive with them will last a whole lot longer than any cardboard fort.

Perhaps if other neighborhoods had activities like this going on with fathers we’d have less Ferguson’s.

[dayglored]

> One has reached out to the rest of Ogden, and asked residents to build their own forts in their front yards.

That'll be interesting. I tend to agree with those commenting that it should have been in the back yard, but hey, what's a little civil disobedience between neighbors?

[Paladin2]

Get the alcohol out of gasoline first. Its an 0bamanation.

[immadashell]

What would the Ogden gestapo have done with Occupy Wall Street?

[joshua c]

Mrs. Kravitz probably called the county. I have one in my neighborhood.

[kvanbrunt2]

he needs a high fence. good fences make good neighbors. kids should be able to play in their yard. front and back anywhere there is grass. city should go take a hike.

[Exton1]

Welcome to obama’s Fascist America where fun is outlawed and a tyrannical government is everywhere.

[GILTN1stborn]

It reminds me of the book I loved reading to my kids and grandson more than any other, Cristina Katerina and the Box.

http://www.amazon.com/Christina-Katerina-Box-Patricia-Gauch/dp/1590789156/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428373299&sr=1-1&keywords=katrina+and+the+box

[MHGinTN]

If allowed, here's a pic of the fort:

[skr]

He should’ve put it in the backyard, especially since his children are only 2 and 3 years of age and shouldn’t be playing by the road. However, this didn’t rate anything but a warning.

[Daffynition]

Is it a ghey box or a Muslim box? We need to know.

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[Pelham]

“Five will get you ten it was a neighbor who ratted him out behind his back.”

That’s my guess as well.

[dayglored]

That is an awesome fort!! And indoors, so it will last a while. Very cool.

[T-Bird45]

Thanks for posting the fort picture. It shows this isn’t exactly a McMansion neighborhood so it’s even more of a travesty that Mrs. Kravitz is getting in the way of kids using their hands and minds while working with their father. That whole scenario is rare enough these days while the code violations in “those” neighborhoods can’t even be numbered.

[kjam22]

That fort was not as “awesome” as I was expecting..... Tearing it down isn’t much of a loss.

[Daffynition]

Reminds me of when my boys were young....maybe 3,5 & 7-ish. I had spent hundreds on their Christmas gifts. Really.

Got hubbie a BBQ grill, it came in a huge box. He opened in on Christmas morning and the kids were so distracted by it.....playing in and out of it...that they forgot all about their presents under the tree.

I coulda saved a ton of money by going to the local appliance store and getting a few refrigerator boxes. Heh.

[Rastus]

He cries, “Oh, girl, you must be mad! What happened to the sweet fort you and me had?”