Posted on 02/09/2010 5:56:50 PM PST by MountainLoop
I’m not saying it ever died. There was plenty of good metal thats been released since then.
I seem to recall a guy a bit east of Lynnwood - one of the small mountain towns (Concrete, Gold Bar, Etc.???) that had some local yokel inspector come onto his property to check for too much overgrowth (blackberries or something). The owner told the inspector to take a hike, and the inspector came back with the sherrif.
Somebody got shot (killed?) over it as I recall.
FOUND IT:
http://www.redcounty.com/was-daniel-wasilchen-murdered-snohomish-county
WAS DANIEL WASILCHEN MURDERED BY SNOHOMISH COUNTY?
By Bob Clark | 06/04/09
SCANDAL ERUPTS AFTER SHERIFF DEPUTIES SHOOT AND KILL PROPERTY OWNER OVER PROPERTY RIGHTS DISPUTE!
On Friday, May 29th Snohomish County Public Works Department bureaucrat H. F. “Sonny” Gohrman and a co-worker were doing what he has a reputation for doing and that is calling on property owners on the South Fork of the Stillaguamish River up near Verlot in North County.
Snohomish County Noxious Weed Control agent Sonny Gohrman and his co-worker were trying to obtain permission from property owners along the river to spray for the invasive Japanese Knotweed. Neighbors in the area say that Gohrman has a reputation for being confrontational and routinely threatens property owners with warrants, fines and other big government rhetoric if they don’t relent.
On this day Gohrman got into an argument with the wrong property owner, Boeing crane operator Daniel L. Wasilchen. Wasilchen was in no mood to deal with Gohrman’s officious demeanor and ordered him off the property. At that point this confrontation escalated into a full scale shouting match.
When Wasilchen threatened to get his gun unless Gohrman and his co-worker from the county left the property, Gohrman drove off to Granite Falls to find a cell phone reception area to call Snohomish County Sheriff Deputies.
Lynwood to me is one big shopping mall, but your quote make me think that it is filled with folks in Ed Hardy shirts with a secret (and in Washington State criminal) stash of hair spray.
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Well! That's reassuring!
To paraphrase Rush: Government is the power to arrest, the power to prosecute, the power to fine and the power to imprison.
Are you REALLY ready to have your neighbor arrested, prosecuted, fined and/or jailed because his YARD looks bad???
An elderly lady in Salt Lake City was arrested and JAILED for the similar "offense" of failing to water her grass in 2007. I don't think the voters had really contemplated the potential outcome of these sorts of laws.
"There oughta be a law!" ARE YOU SURE???
Whenever I have a discussion with someone about (IMHO) unconstitutional or bad laws. I sometimes use a rhetorical law about lawns.
I'd ask someone that if a law were passed making it a crime to allow ones lawn to grow over 6", would that be a constitutional or a good law? Of course not. Just because the government makes something a law doesn't make it right.
I can't believe it. What with gasoline being $2.75+ per gallon I usually cut it twice per month instead of once per week.
So according to this ignorant and totally ridiculous law I could be fined and or jailed?
I know I'm never going to move to Lynnwood Washinton. If a law like that ever gets proposed around here I'll challenge big time.
What's next, if you don't wash your car once a week you could be fined and or jailed?
The Edmonds city council better not try this on me!!!!
Pampas grass is a great place to set up an ambush.
“sometimes its dense impenetrable bushes provide habitat for rats and mice.”
So can other bushes, and tall flowers. And window wells can be an attraction for snakes, and other wildlife, but they don’t require them to be covered. Where I live, the city has decorative tall grass and thick bushes growing downtown on the corners. Why discriminate against regular grass?
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