Meanwhile, at the border...
Posted on 01/13/2022 11:58:55 AM PST by nickcarraway
A hardline judge has fined and ridiculed a 72-year-old Michigan man with lymphoma, ruling that he “should be ashamed” of being too weak to mow his overgrown lawn.
Burhan Chowdhury of Hamtramck, a community about six miles north of Detroit, admittedly fell behind in yard maintenance after he was diagnosed with cancer of the lymph nodes in 2019. His overgrown property prompted local officials to subpoena Chowdhury.
In now-viral footage of the Zoom court hearing on Jan. 10, Chowdhury’s breathing appeared labored as Judge Alexis G. Krot of the 31st District Court berated him. “You should be ashamed of yourself,” says Krot, in a video shared Jan. 12 on social media, and viewed more than 37,500 times as of Thursday morning. “If I could give you jail time on this, I would.”
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“… Don’t berate the son for not flying home on weekends from several continents away to do lawn work.”
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LOL - I was berating him for not helping out AFTER he returned home.
I would hope that someone would lend a hand. Where I grew up, my neighbors wouldn’t even need to be asked...they would just take care of the property without virtue signaling...and probably bring food by every day to be able to check to make sure that he’s okay.
If I were that guy..as soon as I am able.
I’d seriously consider moving out of that town.
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sounds like he is going out of town one way or another....
Neighbors would mow his lawn for him where I live. Judge has revealed himself to be a dangerous Jurist.
I will be flamed.. don’t care.
Look at the state of decay on the garage and grounds. That does not happen in 6 months or even a year.
This guy’s property was a pigsty way before he got cancer.
He is Bangladeshi. Probably Moslem. Should be high on the “patronizing” list.
But, “She has a history of being bigoted to immigrants” someone claims. Using the race card. I doubt that’s true,
As it is, the “shameful” is her beating this guy over this minor stuff when he’s majorly sick.
Yes, maybe early on he could’ve arranged for a) lawn service; b) neighbors to help.
c) Why don’t neighbors help? Inquire? Pitch in?
I sorta agree, too. I mow my own lawn, but as I am in my mid-60's, with back problems, the time will someday come in which I can no longer do it. At that time, it will be incumbent upon me to hire Mexicans to do it like most of the people in the neighborhood. Through the years I have had a few periods in which I was too busy with other projects (or ill once) and I had to hire someone to do it for me. My yard may get a little long if we get into a rain cycle which prevents mowing; but I would never let it become an overgrown forest as the guy in this story did.
Meanwhile, at the border...
“Wouldn’t a neighbor mow his lawn for him, if he was sick?”
That’s one good question. Another is:
Does having cancer mean you don’t have to follow laws/ordinances/etc.?
Starting at about 12 or so, I mowed neighbors lawns and did yard work. There are no teenagers in your neighborhood?
You would think. Or maybe a boy scout troop. One call to a local tv news station will solve this.
I hope the judge drops dead. She is evil.
As for the neighbors, they’re likely all mohommaden. We think the Golden Rule is universal to the hearts of men. It is not.
I remember when I was young, our next-door neighbor fell ill and could no longer do his yard work. My father sent me over to mow the grass and do basic weeding, etc. The neighbor was taken aback, and asked to pay me, unbidden. I gratefully accepted, and I mowed his lawn for quite a while under this arrangement.
As the neighbor declined further, my father would go over to help his poor wife care for the neighbor, up to and including “bedpan duties.”
But my father was raised a Catholic and was devout to the day he died. He loved Our Lord.
Did I mention, he was, and is, my hero. I try to be half as good as he was. It is a struggle.
Test this Judges mettle. Force him to do the yard work.
No kidding-what a bunch of ass**** neighbors-out here in BFE there are no lawns as such, and plenty of livestock-so no Nazilike HOA or restrictions-but we neighbors will even offer to take out someone’s trash out to the road if they are down with an injury, or lend their goats to “mow” their property- (these are acreage lots so the driveways are really long). This must be another example of the joys of city living...
This kind of idiocy is one of the big reasons why I bought land out in the middle of nowhere, dumped my house in town cheap, and got the heck out.
I live in Central NH, a young lady was in the 12 or less at the Local Market Basket. She had just a one item, so we all passed her through a rather long line to check out.
I have also seen people help people who were a couple of bucks short make their payment. As an EX Idaho guy it ain’t only there.
if not, he could hire someone to do it.
There used to be. When I said I had my yard done by someone years ago it was a pair of teen brothers. They are probably in their 30's and married now. Here in Texas it's done by Mexican "landscape crews". When I am working in my yard, I'll see a crew show up across the street or a few houses down. They'll jump out and do those yards before I am halfway done with mine. The main reason I do mine is that it keeps me from turning a couch potato. I would rather work than exercise because by working I can sweat off a few pounds while accomplishing something.
But the point is that if I were not able to do the work any longer, I'd make other arrangements.
I was a couple bucks short at a market recently and the lady behind me kindly offered to pay for me. I declined her sweet offer and charged it on my card instead. The kindness of strangers in our places warms the heart.
Judge Alexis
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