Upgraded Warning

[R. Richard]

You will be happy to know that I sent the city a message, suggesting an upgraded warning:
"Mow yo' grass
Or we jails yo' ass!"

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/10/16/woman-sent-to-jail-for-overgrown-yard/

 

[Handley_Page]

Ye gods!

 

[JKendallDane]

We have here in our county what's officially called "Environmental Control Officers" but are better known as "the lawn police."

They honestly pay guys $40k a year to drive around in $35,000 Prius's and do nothing more than get out of their car and use a ruler on your grass. More than six inches and you get written up with a warning to have it cut within ten days or face a $1,000 fine.

It's government at its finest!

 

[Handley_Page]

We have here in our county what's officially called "Environmental Control Officers" but are better known as "the lawn police."

They honestly pay guys $40k a year to drive around in $35,000 Prius's and do nothing more than get out of their car and use a ruler on your grass. More than six inches and you get written up with a warning to have it cut within ten days or face a $1,000 fine.

It's government at its finest!

And local Government at that.

 

[StrangeLife]

The judge responsible is kinda shifty too.

If you get five days in in jail for not mowing the lawn, how long should you get for cheating your creditors out of two mills?

 

[49greg]

Lawn police would love me. I hate mowing and am lazy to boot. I'm not saying it's a jungle but it's one of the least kept up lawns on the block.

But it's a small rural town, no lawn police here. There's probably an ordinance about appearance, but it would be hard to enforce. The courthouse has one of the many walnut trees in town and in season it mucks up the sidewalk and drops walnuts (they don't come off the tree as a nut, but as a nut wrapped in a green ball of protective material that turns brown and gooey and stains everything. The squirrels can't keep up.

It's interesting hearing a car go past as it runs over and pops them.

 

[sr71plt]

Lawn police wouldn't get much mileage off me. My lot is wooded and what free ground I haven't covered with stone, I've let go to moss.

 

[lovecraft68]

The house I was in for years had a small front lawn and the back was half parking and the rest a long patio with a small pool so never much in the way of mowing.

When we sold it and bought my wife's "dream house" the damn thing site right in the middle of a large lot and there is a lot of lawn all the way around. The first time we looked at it, I told her "Add a landscaper into the budget because you're nuts if you think I'm mowing this."

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I ripped the stuff up and poured concrete in it's place. I did, however, dye the concrete green. Then I covered it with the cheapest AstroTurf I could find. Problem solved.

 

[lovecraft68]

I ripped the stuff up and poured concrete in it's place. I did, however, dye the concrete green. Then I covered it with the cheapest AstroTurf I could find. Problem solved.

That's damn funny. I couldn't get away with it because my wife planted tons of flowers everywhere.....then again they sell fake flowers hmm.....