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Old 05-24-2012, 09:18 AM
 
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There are laws where you have your pool secure so neighborhood kids can't get in there. There are leash laws for dogs.
Im not talking about a loose dog. I mean a dog, behind a chain link fence in a backyard. Kids can walk up to that fence, put their hand in to pet the dog, and get bitten.

See, in your scenario, kids would have to come onto the private property (unsupervised by their parents, remember, its YOUR job to watch your kids, not mine). Kids unsupervised on that other person's property would "get hurt" by the scrap pieces of metal. The metal causes no safety hazard unless the kid, again, unsupervised by their parent, comes onto the private land of another. Just like they would by coming onto the land to pet the fenced dog and getting bitten.

SO........should the cops ban us from keeping a dog behind a fence in our yard since a kid could walk up to that fence and get bitten?

I suggest a law that bans you from putting your trash into those big plastic containers by the street. Yep. You must wait for the trash truck, then bring the trash yourself out of the home and give it to them.

See.......trash outside by the road (which is how Mt P does it) smells, and could attract spiders, snakes, rats. Oh gosh, it could even attract one of the tens of thousands of alligators in the Lowcountry, and all that is dangerous.

Yep. Mount Pleasant needs to ban dogs in the backyard, even if fenced in. And it needs to ban trash from being placed in those official containers by the road.

Oh, and we need to ban flowers on the property, since they attract bees. Bees could sting a kid, and some kids are allergic to bees, so we gotta ban those flowers also.

Robyn, you gonna support my proposed bans?
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Old 05-24-2012, 09:21 AM
 
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As someone else pointed out, most towns have these kinds of ordinances. Some enforce them and some don't. Keep the Charleston Area Beautiful.
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Old 05-24-2012, 09:22 AM
 
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So you are ok with the men with guns, the cops, coming to inspect your home and possibly jail you if you are not compliant?

Just to get it straight.......would you be ok with having your neighbor jailed if he refused to remove a few plastic pink flamingos from his yard? A simple yes or no...and why.
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Old 05-24-2012, 09:24 AM
 
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As someone else pointed out, most towns have these kinds of ordinances. Some enforce them and some don't. Keep the Charleston Area Beautiful.
Yep. And there are parts of North Korea where beautification is forced, by violence if necessary, so that those areas of town look pretty for the outside media who come in. Does that make it ok?

Our society, some towns more than others, have become WAY TO COMFORTABLE with resorting to the cops to hammer down on things that are mere annoyances than actual crimes. Mt P is among them.
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Old 05-24-2012, 09:31 AM
 
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3 years to clean up a hazardous junk pile and then being jailed for not showing up for court is not the same situation you are describing...
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Old 05-24-2012, 09:35 AM
 
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3 years to clean up a hazardous junk pile and then being jailed for not showing up for court is not the same situation you are describing...
How was it "hazardous"??????? It wasn't. In any reasonable way. The neighbors just didn't like how it looked. Dont believe me? Drive through Remley's Point, Snowden, the parts of the Old Village near Bank/Ferry Street, Greenhill.......all in Mt P.

Now...tell me, if her yard was "hazardous", then why has the Mt P govt not cracked down on all the incredibly messy yards on those neighborhoods?

So I ask again...would you support banning dogs from back yards, trash near the roadside, flowers outside? They are all just as "hazardous" as the shingles and scrap metal in the yard if using your standard of saying kid (whose mom isn't watching) wandering onto the property.
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Old 05-24-2012, 09:36 AM
 
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3 years to clean up a hazardous junk pile and then being jailed for not showing up for court is not the same situation you are describing...
Its ok to just admit your true feeling. You are 100% ok with using armed cops to enforce how a person's yard should look for beautification purposes. You would be ok with jailing a person for simply having a yard that neighbors find ugly.

Thats your true feeling. It's ok to just admit it.
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Old 05-24-2012, 09:38 AM
 
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Be careful GCreek putting words in people's mouths... and have a great day
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Old 05-24-2012, 09:41 AM
 
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Be careful GCreek putting words in people's mouths... and have a great day

I'm so thankful I'm not your neighbor, you'd spend half your day trying to watch what I do with my yard. You do the same.
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Old 05-24-2012, 10:08 AM
 
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There are laws where you have your pool secure so neighborhood kids can't get in there. There are leash laws for dogs.
But what if the kids comes into my yard and sticks his hand through my fence and gets bit then what?
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