Blow The Whistle People

Nile · Blow The Whistle People

What do you think of this? We have a very kind neighbor who volunteers to watch a neighbor's children as they wait on the bus and to take them indoors if it is raining. Then, we have some snoopy trouble maker who tell's the authorities because she does not have a Day-Care license.

http://abcnews.go.com/m/screen?id=8704363&pid=4380645

I have been in a similar situation as far as snoopy trouble kind of people. I was replacing my railing around my porch. There were spindles that needed cutting, so I had a table saw on the porch which I covered up with a tarp at night. Somebody called the city on me because nothing is to be "stored" on the exterior of my home. I was in construction for Pete's sake. Then you have the person who calls the city because 1" of your car sticks out past the driveway into the confines of the sidewalk which is a hinderance to pedestrians. This occurred because I had a visitor to my home. Normally I kept them in the garage. That city also had an ordinance about the height of your grass. It cannot exceed a certain height. If it does exceed that height you would receive a bill from the city that sent out a crew to cut it. We, as residents of that city actually had a person armed with a ruler that would go out and check the height of grass. I took some pictures of city owned property that had grass, or weeds even that were 16' or more tall. But that doesn't count. Just private property.

Andrew

Nile - our current government seems to be trying to control in ever more detail how we live our lives, but it has not got this bad yet. I tend to think we usually know best ourselves what is good for us and the authorities trying to micro-manage how we live never works, Russia under the Communists being a prime example.

The story in the UK which was in the news a week or so ago was about two women Police Officers who were job-sharing and looking after each others kids as part of the arrangement. They were stopped because they were not OFSTED (government agency) approved child minders. This sort of thing makes me so cross, ordinary people just trying to get on with their lives and being stimied by official jobsworths.

Corgi kid

I was sent a letter from my local council with a complaint made by a neighbour (Kees knows who I am talking about) that the noise from my garden pond was keeping them awake at night. The noise in question comes from a small fountain. I telephoned the council and asked for a representative to call at my house. It took them 3 weeks to arrive and the lady who turned up said It was a waste of time as she could not guage the decibel from the fountain because my neighbour was playing music at full belt. Instead she took action against them for noise abaitment. I have since fitted a timer to the fountain and it now operates from 9am till 8pm. Thanks to Liverpool City council, I now live in a quieter neighbourhood.

keesie25

It is the same everywhere, isn't it? Reading all your reports, I feel so lucky to live in a 'free' house, not attached to others. Still, there is always something. We have these waters around our houses, I think you call them ditches. Every year, once a year, we get a note from the counsil, that we have to 'clean' our side, meaning the half that is nearest to our house. In the same letter they say they will do the other half.
Once a year is not enough, believe me. The youngsters, going home from parties, throw their empty bottles in, a lot of garbage is blown in when it is near 'garbage day', and there is a lot of weeds (ditch-weed?). I do my share at least 5 times a year, even take out the occasional dead fish, branches and such. I do this with a rake, and walk around to the counsil's side, do that as well.
I have never seen anyone else cleaning it. When I just cleaned my parts, and when there is a wind.......ah well......

Mr.Blunden

One of our members of parliment recently got in a lot of trouble here, for claiming on expences to have the waterfilled ditch around his house cleaned. If only he had had you as a neighbour Keesie ...

http://news.five.tv/news.php?news=1725

keesie25

Nice idea Mister Blunden, but......I don't own a piano.

sandie seward

Surely isn't a water-filled ditch called a "Moat"? Does this mean that Keesie's "Free House" is actually a Castle????

(Keesie, we call free-standing properties "Detatched" in Britain. A "Free House" is a pub that sells many varieties of ale and is not under the ownership of one Brewery Company.)

keesie25

Thanks Sandie, whatever they are called, here are some pictures I just took. Our house has these ditches/moats on two sides. They are all connected, and because we are in low land, there is pump-house at the end, which can let water in, or let out.

I wouldn't call my house a castle, and after your explain it is certainly not a free house, but I will defend it as my castle....

Andrew

Mark G

There are some ridiculous laws around...........

Sunday before last, a neighbour a few doors down, had a ruddy smelly bonfire, which ponged and I couldn't go into the garden to do any work due the smell coming over.........(but I couldn't be bothered to report it, and sorry to any bonfire makers here..........). But bits of ash were ending up on the car on the drive.........

james_autos

I have a neighbour who is retired and at home all day who likes to do all of his garden work between 5pm and 7pm in the evening, just as everybody is returning home from work. By garden work, I mean mowing the lawn, using the hedgetrimmer and using a chainsaw to cut wood.

The fact that he uses these things isn't an issue because most people do, but it is the fact he waits all day and then decides to start working in the evening when everyone is back home

So if you want to sit outside in peace you can forget it. Oh, and he also likes to have Radio 4 on full blast in the back room of his house all day long, and sometimes we can hear it in our house, even though our house is detached! Then there was the time he had ago at my dad for trimming his hedge on our side because it was a overgrown (the only time he's ever spoken to any of us). And up until about 3 years ago he had what looked like an MG 1100 under tarpaulin on his drive on bricks which he just left to rot.

So as you've probably figured, we don't really like him

Nile

I made the statement long ago that Russia is coing out of communism and we are going into it. This is not a free country anymore. The U.S. was always known as the "Land of Free and the Home of the Brave". It ain't free anymore. Too much control, little freedom left, and brave (?). How about bullies.... There are a couple of instances of people rebelling. This guy was being harassed from the city to paint his house, so he painted it PINK!! There was another guy that was being harassed by the city to paint his house and he found out that the guy across the street was the one who called the city. So he painted it white with black polka dots. Now the guy has to look at polka dots right in his living room window. In the subdivision I lived in there were townhouse/condominiums. Townhouses are connected houses on two floors and condominiums are apartments that are owned, not rented. A resident could not park a pickup truck in his driveway. He would be cited by the city. I don't know how constitutional that is but anyway. Some pickup trucks are in the 60,000.00 pound class with lots of bells and whistles. Nope, doesn't matter......no pickup trucks.

keesie25

Nile, with us there is a plan to ban cars of a certain age out of the cities. You simply cannot go in then with an older car, even if you live in the city.

vincent ryder

Nile, FWIW it's the same at my condo in Yuma, AZ. It isn't a city thing, it's the condo Board of Directors and it's called a covenant. When I bought the place seven years ago I had a hard time with my antennas for my ham radio station so I had to get on the board and get that one changed. Now I can have what passes for antennae, basically lots of wire, as long as they aren't easily visible. They are if you look hard enough but not to a blind man on a speeding horse ! There are several other covenants which are supposed to keep the place nice and neat. You cannot wash a vehicle for instance. Nothing that causes much grief though. I'll be heading there on the 24th to get away from the winter. A six day, 3,600 mile jaunt !

Cheers to all.

Mark G

Gizmouk

Next will be a ban on PEOPLE of a certain age - make the most of it - they're coming to get us soon.... bullets are cheaper then pensions

keesie25

Well, let's arm ourselves......

sandie seward

Apparently a Hospice in Liverpool already has a "Death Path" for terminally ill patients....they stop feeding them and giving them liquids, and just "leave them to die".

Isn't our Health Service truly wonderful?????

At least in "Soylent Green" they made their passing as easy as possible.

Now, a local(ish) story on tonight's news, was that Lewisham Council still uses "Paupers Graves", i.e. "Common Graves" for people who cannot afford the cost of a funeral and a proper casket.

"Wild Animals" disturbed a recent burial of a five day old baby who was laid to rest in a "Cardboard Coffin".....and quite literally tore open the little box to get at the contents!!!!!

Sorry to upset anyone here, just thought you'd like to know how our "caring government" really does care for us!!!!

Nile

OK, here is a story that truly happened in my home city. We all know that reindeer are a holiday icon that appears in many forms every year at Christmastime. ie. on packages, ornaments on the tree, pictures, greeting cards and on and on, Rudolph being the star. Well, a resident of the city felt that it would be novel to decorate his lawn with a couple of reindeer. You know the ones, usually painted white sculptures made out of bent wire. Some of them even have electric motors making them move, gallop, graze etc. This gentleman felt that these wire reindeer must breed somehow so he posed them on the lawn in a reindeer embrace with forelegs positioned on the back of the reindeer in front. His home happened to be at a school bus stop where children would disembark from the bus. The city sent him a letter which he ignored, police officers came out taking the reindeer into custody. They removed them from his property illegally. He filed suite for unauthorized removal of his possessions from his property. There is not a law about how you decorate for Christmas. He won the case, his reindeer were returned. Then, the city sent him another letter asking him to reconsider. He declined. Some nearby resident stole them from his yard. He put another pair out on his lawn and padlocked them with a chain so noone could remove them again. As far as I know he is still "decorating" for Christmas.

MISTER C

Dear oh deer

sandie seward

Love it, Nile....thanks for making my day......

Gizmouk

There must be a way to make wire reindeer explode on contact.......