Posted on 05/14/2012 3:47:48 PM PDT by Elle Bee
This is in a town overrun with wild chickens. I’ve been past that housing project many a time and the last thing they need to worry about there is a few banana trees.
What is the past tense of “banana?”
BENINHER
I think the state of his hands are to give him the right to do as he pleases. You have a right to a risk free life, with 100% self esteem, and to do whatever makes you feel good. If not, call a lawyer and sue.
I know I won’t feel safe here in Virginia until those banana trees are gone.
You should sue someone for sure.
So I guess he has to tell them...'Yes, we have no bananaaaas...'
*chortle* *snort*
Housing Authority Director Manuel Castillo .....
Govt Thug.
Vote this used plastic trash bag out of office.
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Yep. I do. The clear message is that one neighbor is afraid of the dark, and one tree obscured a security camera, or at least those were the big excuses.
Can't grow food on public dirt, unless you are an approved person who is a member of an approved group in an approved inner city or something, and someone is milking the grant money.
If the guy had been selling the bananas....but no, he gave them away.
That affects international commerce and probably violated a treaty somewhere.
He's lucky they cut down the trees before the State Department nailed him.
(Sweet Jesus, when will the stupidity end?)
The man lives in a taxpayer funded public housing apartment.
He does not get to “live free” and also make his own rules on his own property, when he is “living” on other peoples taxes, and does not own, nor can he even be said to be renting, the property in question.
Sweet Jesus does indeed weep, but perhaps not for the reasons you “feel” he should.
Now, I understand that rules are rules and if there is to be any foliage around such publicly funded warehouses of not yet dead humanity, it must be of the useless ornamental variety, barren and devoid of any nutritional value, eye candy for the lords of those fiefs, if not the sterility of parched earth and pavement.
After all, taxpayers are paying for it!
Now, I'm going to ask you: What is the harm in allowing this man to grow bananas? He isn't doing so for profit, it lets him feel he is doing something useful. He gives them away.
Establish limits, OK. All or nothing? Scorched earth? Every day there are thousands of pages of new rules, rules devoid of any compassion or common sense, but in the name of law and order, this man's banana trees must be cut down
While those in Washington D.C. steal trillions of dollars, and our nations' future.
But hey, everyone has their part to play!
Walk a mile in his shoes and imagine your life with thumbs and stubs. Have something you CAN do. And then watch it cut away for 'the rules'.
I guess it isn't enough that the government wants to slaughter babies in the womb with our tax dollars, they want to slaughter the human spirit, too.
I refer you back to the article.
“They” tried to work with him.
It seems he was the one guilty of demanding the “all or nothing” approach.
Banana trees in a crowded complex would more correctly be called nuisance plants, rather than desirable or beneficial.
Aside from the problem of large fronds breaking off and being blown around, I wonder what kind of insects and pesky critters are attracted to banana trees. I imagine spiders, roaches, and rats are a given...can you see the harm yet?
Some rules are stupid. Some are very sensible.
So lets just make it harder than it has to be for the mans neighbors and the maintenance men, so this one man can plant a non-native mini jungle outside of his window in a public housing unit!
It has to be banana trees, right?
Can't expect the man to plant herbs or peppers in pots or anything, can we?
What's done is done. We disagree about it.
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