Neighbors Find Obscenity Mowed Into Lawn

ClickonDetroit ^ | September 15, 2005

[null and void]

SURE! I've got 1000 sqft, on a big lot, located on a main drag into a major city, my front door is less than 30 feet from morning rush hour traffic, I'm close enough to the stadium that there is no available street parking any time there is any event at said stadium, I have a long very skinny lot, zoned R-2, but the city won't let me put in a granny unit in the back, despite the fact that 75% of my neighbors have one, oh, BTW, the city is building a low income apartment building in the block behind me, it's now tall enough that it towers over the intervening trees and houses (don't worry, though, it's reserved for teachers police and firefighters - or so they told us, and they wouldn't LIE to us would they???? - it's on a medium risk flood plain, in a high risk earthquake zone (thixotropic soil) OTOH, it survived the '06 'quake, it was a badly neglected rental for decades before my ex bought it (she got my old house, I got hers). OH! I almost forgot! It's on a Superfund site.

Contact me for escrow details...

[null and void]

Hahahaha, I've done that.

I've broken SIX shovels trying to get weeds out of mine! (Anise has really deep roots)...

[SengirV]

Normally I agree. But not cutting your lawn is just nasty. I have little sympathy for these types and those who are real garbage collectors and have parts of cars, appliances, scrap metal, etc... piled all over the place.

Those two types deserve ALL the bad that Gov't can do to them.

[dayglored]

> I was being both serious and tongue-in-cheek at the same time. If they don't like the "lawn language" or the high grass, the only alternative is complete regulation by some city or local authority. Here, in Ft. Walton Beach, we call them (among other things) Lawn Nazis...........

Okay, cool. "Lawn Nazis"... that fits.

Out here in the country, the only reason I keep my lawn cut is that if it gets over 8 inches, I run into nests of ground bees and/or rabbits, the next time I mow. The ground bees are nasty little b4574rds, and I feel real bad when I wing the bunnies with the mower blade.

Federalist that I am, I support anyone's right to set up their home and live how they like, as long as they follow the local (community, state) rules. If they don't like the rules, move to where they're more copasetic.

So the fact that this guy is in a regulated area means he's gonna get hassled about his lawn. I am kinda rooting for him, as long as he plays within the rules of the association; but so should everybody else, including respect for private property.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

What is a granny unit?

[wolficatZ]

The Culprit: Caught on Cam

[kjam22]

Federalist that I am, I support anyone's right to set up their home and live how they like, as long as they follow the local (community, state) rules. If they don't like the rules, move to where they're more copasetic.

And that's the bottom line. People who move into a neighborhood with covenants, lawn rules etc... and then think they have a right to just disregard them are akin to those who sue to have the pledge removed from public schools etc.

[TX Bluebonnet]

A Drive-By Round-Up

[ErnBatavia]

Live and let live.

Unless BTK is the local code enforcement dude...

[dayglored]

> For all you DU-dwellers and your circlejerk fantasies about messing up your neighbor's lawn:... "Warning - No Trespassing. Violators will be shot; Survivors will be shot again"

You got THAT right. ;-)

[kjam22]

Round up works good... but if you know anybody with a chemical license that can get full strength Paraquat.... well Paraquat makes Roundup look like candy.

[ShadowDancer]

What's really scary is I have even done the trimming with scissors thing. LOL. We have an electric edger, a gas powered weed whacker and a gas powered blower, all of which I refuse to use. I have no idea why, I just prefer to do things manually when I work outside. One time last year my grass clippers broke and I did the trimming, front and back, with house scissors. Jesus, I sound like a freak. Hahahaha

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Bet your yard isn't 175' x 175' like mine.

[Red Badger]

I think this guy's problem was with a city Lawn Nazi, not an ASSociation. Even here, they are a little more lenient. Grass is allowed to be 18 inches or less.........

[najida]

Hun,
I have a butcher knife that I use when I work outside. Best tool I have.

[anonymous_user]

Bad idea. Advising someone to use roundup on someone else's lawn is just a bad idea.

Alas, you're right. Salt is much cheaper.

[anonymous_user]

Here's how a neighborhood should work.

Exactly! We meet all the neighbors whenever it snows.

[TX Bluebonnet]

I have a friend who got some Velpar to remove invasive bamboo in his backyard. He didn't read the directions (of course) and applied it 2 or 3 times because it wasn't working. THEN he read the directions which said it was water activated. When it finally rained, it took out the bamboo, part of the neighbors yard and a neighbors tree. That ground was stile for about a year.

[null and void]

What is a granny unit?

Also known as a mother-in-law cottage, a small second house on the same lot as the 'big' house.

I had hoped to put in a 2 br cottage and rent it out, doing my bit to help relieve the city's chronic housing shortage, and make enough to cover the mortgages. (And cover more ground so there would be less to mow!)

[dayglored]

> I think this guy's problem was with a city Lawn Nazi, not an ASSociation. Even here, they are a little more lenient. Grass is allowed to be 18 inches or less.........

You're quite correct -- it's the city. My error.

Wow, 18 inches. If my grass got that long, I'd probably find more than just ground bees and rabbits next time out with the hand mower. Probably need to get the tractor and field mower for that...