Americans: My right to private property is guaranteed by constitution! Unlike those communist countries, I can do with my land as I please!
America: Has lawn inspectors. Also enforces having a lawn in front of your house.
Yeah, getting fined or ticketed for having your grass “too long” is ridiculous. I had to deal with this while pet sitting for some people who were just moving in to a house that had been unnoccupied. There was no one there to even cut the grass because they were packing up their old house in a different state.
I dont think a “too long grass” fine is unreasonable. I think if you can completely obscure a 5’ tall figure standing upright in your grass alone, maybe a 30 minute fine is reasonable.
… it’s how much? For being how long?
a 30 minute fine is reasonable
You mean like a timeout? Go stand in the corner?
More like 30 minutes of whatever you get paid, as all fiscal punishments should be measured
That’s interesting. I would have figured sending a tank would de-escalate the situation.
Mental health issues and guns, a match made in heav… USA!
Guns. It’s just guns. Having them around seems to trigger people into doing silly things
Bigger stick make monkey brain fearless…
Fuck a duck. I live in Oklahoma and haven’t mow my front yard in a month. To goddamn hot to be outside doing manual labor. No ones said shit. Plus I try avoid mowing altogether. We began see fireflies at night, and rather have wild flowers then a well maintained lawn. ACAB. Killed a man over not .mowing his grass. What bullshit. And you know it was some nosey neighbor probably sames ones quoted that called code enforcement on him.
Hey gotta justify their existence amirite
Why are people complaining about grass heights, and why is there a person whose job it is to care? And why is this a violation of anything?(I know the answers, please don’t respond pedantically)
My neighbors lawn is knee high.
Apache gunship is enroute
“911, what’s your emergency?”
I was annoying some guy about how he mowed his own property and he pointed a gun at me.
I don’t understand HOAs having so much control over people’s property.
Where I live if you live somewhere that has rules about how the exterior of a place looks, it’s part of a strata and you pay monthly fees and the strata pays for landscapers to come in and mow everyone’s lawns, repaint people’s houses, repair the roof, clean the eaves trough, etc.
Seems so backwards that you just own your home outright but if you don’t maintain it properly someone can just fine you. Take care of it yourselves then and leave me out of it.
Depends on your HOA. Some maintain pools and parks in the area. Some exist solely to ‘keep property values up.’
Which is also funny to me because I would be willing to pay less if a house was In an HOA not more.
we had an oppressive hoa, but did a hostile takeover with the chill neighbors next door. first order of business, no more citations for unkempt lawns, no more loud noise citations, you get to treat your home like your property so long as you weren’t piling up trash in the front yard. the old hoa board had a “legal” service run by an “attorney” downtown they contracted with to fine people for menial bullshit and we fired them. guess what? people started taking better care of their yards. kids are actually playing in the street (we have enough for a baseball team now). the neighborhood has never looked better.
Somehow I doubt the grass is gonna get cut now
This sums up in two sentences why I never really fancied visiting the US
in free democracies you get a tank sent to kill you for having an unkept lawn
His yard don’t even look bad
Here’s hoping that all the people involved in this death have a hard time sleeping for the rest of their miserable lives.
From the person that complained in the first place, the inspector, that whole office, and all the cunting officers that attended. Bunch of fucking arseholes.
Apart from that, peace and love from Australia.
While I’m usually the first to say “Fuck the Police”, this one looks like just a sad situation all around, but was probably ultimately justified.
Code enforcement guy came to the house to ask about the lawn, and resident pointed gun at code enforcement guy and told him he couldn’t leave. Code dude calls the police because he has a gun pointed at him and can’t flee. Police show up in armored vehicle because someone is threatening to shoot a government employee, get shot at, and return fire.
Did the guy deserve to die because he was having a mental health breakdown? No. But sometimes it isn’t about what is deserved. Guy was threatening someone with a gun, wouldn’t let them leave, then started shooting at people. Police can’t let that continue.
Yeah “mental health crisis” is doing a whole lot of work here and basically sounds like cop-speak checking boxes to justify killing a guy. But personally, it might just be my prejudice, but this guy comes off as a suburb brained chud. A guy took a picture of his house which activated his constitutional sheriff castle doctrine so he had to kidnap him at gunpoint.
And the rest of this thread are lower level libertarian brains acting like he got shot for his lawn. So the cycle continues.
I blame the city. They should have just mailed the long grass notice.
I work in a development/code enforcement department. We generally mail a notice, then we knock on the door if things don’t improve for a courtesy check before issuing a citation.
We don’t want to send someone to court because they didn’t mow their lawn.
And if there’s a reason they cant mow their lawn or it tuelrns out the house is unoccupied, we want to know about it so we can plan to have a crew take care of it for fire safety.
How does the city know the grass is too long without sending someone? They can’t just believe every jerk that hates their neighbor.
How is Falling Down guy not the problem here?
You can inspect it without stopping the car. The problem is the confrontation the city sent the inspector into.
City mails a fine. Guy gets mad and doesn’t pay it. Nanny State mails you demanding money for grass, government overreach, etc.
City goes to the man’s door and says “we got a complaint, mow the grass so I don’t have to fine you.” Man is treated like an adult who is given the opportunity for grace. Man mows the lawn and goes on living his life.
Would you prefer drive-by citations for everything without having an opportunity to correct issues?
Would you prefer drive-by citations for everything without having an opportunity to correct issues?
I’d prefer they mind their own fucking business about how someone keeps their property. Long grass isn’t hurting anyone
When you sign the agreement that you allow the neighborhood to care about the length of your grass, you agree to make it their business. Don’t live places that care about grass length if you don’t want people to care about your grass.
If you’ve got the money to be buying guns to threaten people with, you’ve got the money to afford a uHaul.
That’s a false comparison. Mailing a note that says “we got a complaint, mow the grass so I don’t have to fine you” gives the same opportunity for grace and treats people like adults while also removing the face to face confrontation.
