So my city decided to pass an ordinance to punish the people who keep junk cars in their yards. OK, I'm all for that, but they have decided the fashion in which they are going to do this may include jail time of 60 days. Yes, these hardened criminals may have to go do time in the big house for violation of this ordinance. We won't have room for the drug dealers and the meth heads, but by God, those evil junky car owners will not be free to roam the streets of our fair city anymore! We are putting our foot down and showing them we will no longer tolerate this insanity and this scourge which is sweeping through the streets of our little burg, ruining it, I tell you!
The supporters claim that it will keep small children from playing in these junk cars and dying when they get locked inside. Apparently that happens a lot. Never mind the drug dealers that are selling meth to our junior high kids. That's minor, really, in the grand scheme of all the junk car deaths I guess. They claim it's making our city look bad. Really? I thought it was all the empty businesses and the trashy houses and yards that were doing that. I guess this junk car thing fits in with the trashy yard thing.
If you really just have some shithole of a car sitting on blocks in your front yard with grass and trees growing through it - yes, make them get rid of that. But they are also talking about cars in peoples' back yards. Where other people can't even see.
Why am I up in arms about this? Because I have a car that sits in my back yard. It's a 1965 VW bug that I am working on restoring and I love it. It is one of my most prized possessions. I own it and I own the property on which it sits and I will be damned if some jackass will make me move it. I can't even get city water - they sure as hell aren't going to tell me what I can have on my property, especially when you can't even see it from the street.
It's also a sore subject with me because we recently had a bridge collapse because a fire truck that was too heavy drove over it. They kept driving - didn't even go back - and they saw it happen. Besides the questions that in itself raises, the city says it will take 6 months to fix. Bullshit. Thousands of people a day drive that street - me included because it's on my corner - it is necessary that it be fixed immediately, it's a major thoroughfare in this town. They don't have the money to fix a bridge, they don't have money to get stray dogs off the street, but they can afford to tow all these junk cars and then throw people in jail.
OH - and businesses are exempt from this junk car thing apparently. Hmmm... makes you wonder who the city is really working for - the citizens or the business owners. Methinks it ain't so much the citizens....
Whatever. This is the stupidest thing the city has done in a while.
Don't get me wrong, I want to see Enid beautiful, too. I just think there are other ways to go about it. They have been a bit Nazi-ish lately and it's getting old quick. I think I already told the story about them saying they were going to demolish a house because it needed new siding - yeah, they really did. There's a difference between trying to enforce codes and keep your city clean and infringing on peoples' rights and property. There just is, and the city hasn't figured that one out yet.
The supporters claim that it will keep small children from playing in these junk cars and dying when they get locked inside. Apparently that happens a lot. Never mind the drug dealers that are selling meth to our junior high kids. That's minor, really, in the grand scheme of all the junk car deaths I guess. They claim it's making our city look bad. Really? I thought it was all the empty businesses and the trashy houses and yards that were doing that. I guess this junk car thing fits in with the trashy yard thing.
If you really just have some shithole of a car sitting on blocks in your front yard with grass and trees growing through it - yes, make them get rid of that. But they are also talking about cars in peoples' back yards. Where other people can't even see.
Why am I up in arms about this? Because I have a car that sits in my back yard. It's a 1965 VW bug that I am working on restoring and I love it. It is one of my most prized possessions. I own it and I own the property on which it sits and I will be damned if some jackass will make me move it. I can't even get city water - they sure as hell aren't going to tell me what I can have on my property, especially when you can't even see it from the street.
It's also a sore subject with me because we recently had a bridge collapse because a fire truck that was too heavy drove over it. They kept driving - didn't even go back - and they saw it happen. Besides the questions that in itself raises, the city says it will take 6 months to fix. Bullshit. Thousands of people a day drive that street - me included because it's on my corner - it is necessary that it be fixed immediately, it's a major thoroughfare in this town. They don't have the money to fix a bridge, they don't have money to get stray dogs off the street, but they can afford to tow all these junk cars and then throw people in jail.
OH - and businesses are exempt from this junk car thing apparently. Hmmm... makes you wonder who the city is really working for - the citizens or the business owners. Methinks it ain't so much the citizens....
Whatever. This is the stupidest thing the city has done in a while.
Don't get me wrong, I want to see Enid beautiful, too. I just think there are other ways to go about it. They have been a bit Nazi-ish lately and it's getting old quick. I think I already told the story about them saying they were going to demolish a house because it needed new siding - yeah, they really did. There's a difference between trying to enforce codes and keep your city clean and infringing on peoples' rights and property. There just is, and the city hasn't figured that one out yet.
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wow... I am glad to not live were you do. Good god man... horribleness comes in all shapes and sizes... and governments.
So far, this being the first official week of this stupidity, my neighbor and my aunt have been contacted by the police and told to move vehicles or they would be fined. They get 10 days to do it or they get fined and then at some point can be subject to 60 days in jail. There's a big debate on our local news message board about the whole thing. What people are failing to see is that this is not about cars - it's about freedom and it's scary to me that our local government can dictate what we do with our personal property. This is just the beginning, I am curious how far it will go before people realize what's happening. First the houses, now the cars, what's next?
Anything. Government decides. You accept. I mean that it is fair and not the least bit scary and or controlling... I mean it is not like they are telling us what we can put in our bodies... because that would just be silly.
Drinking = good "legal"
smoking pot = bad "illegal"
drinking = 50,000 dead per year
smoking pot = 0 dead per year
(throw in 2,500 a year and still does not dent the legal drug)
wait... oh shit.
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