If statists were truthful they would charge him for the crime of independent action; a cardinal sin in a bureaucratic society. The proper way to approach this problem would have been to create a committee to study the problem and hire consultants to survey the area, put in motion activated cameras to record the number of people walking through the area and sleeping there and also hiring a number of American Indians to determine whether there was any religious significance to the shrubbery which grew in this area.
After several years of research, the committee would consider the findings and then ask for input from “stakeholders” which would include the people sleeping under the bushes. This would require the hiring of numerous social workers and their ilk to prepare a “victim impact” statement should a decision be made to alter the local flora. Another several years would be required for deliberations and, in the meantime, a needle exchange program would be setup to ensure that the health of the local “inhabitants” is preserved. Anthropologists would be brought in to ascertain whether the concentration of the homeless in this area constituted a social grouping which needed to be preserved. This would likely require several more years of studies.
Finally, a grand report would be issued after perhaps a decade or more of investigation and would recommend – more studies need to be done before any decision can be made regarding whether the overgrown plants can be cut back. Lip service would be paid to the concerns of the local residents of the area who may have issues about the homeless sleeping, defecating and fornicating amongst the bushes but the anthropologists report citing the unique spontaneous cultural organization that has arisen in that area would be heavily referenced. A temporary regulation prohibiting any homeowner from altering the shrubbery would be passed pending the final review of the situation. Consideration would also be required for the very large number of consultants, social workers, colon therapists, needle exchange personnel, botanists, anthropologists and others whose livelyhood depended on the continued existence of this unique patch of botanical growth and its transient population. A separate committee would be struck to investigate the impact of clearing the shrubbery on the lives of this group of dedicated workers.
That is the proper way to do things and the delusion that a single individual can out-think a large number of experts, who, in years of deliberation are unable to come to a definitive conclusion regarding whether a certain action should be taken is worthy of criminal charges.
Or you could sneak out by the dark of night, spray the shrubs with Roundup, and then blame their subsequent withering on all the hobo pee.
I’ve seen it happen too many times.
What starts out as “harmless” chewing on a blade of grass, rapidly escalates into frenzied pruning and weed-whacking.
Next thing ya know, the guy is decapitating some hapless passenger on a bus in Manitoba.
A SWAT team should have been sent to take this guy out.
If it saves just one shrub, it’s worth it.
A very good illustration of why “mandatory minimums” can be problematic.
If a judge’s hands are tied, then this guys off to the slammer for trimming the hedge.
God help what they’d do to someone who really did vandalism…..like throwing a gum wrapper on the ground, probably the rack.
Loki, Gordin, Dystopian, et al…
That’s why I like SDA – the comments are often more entertaining than the stories themselves.
Hobo pee, hehehehehehe…
This is the problem with the regulatory state – it turns normal people into complete idiots. To me it shows how the religious impulse endures even without formal religion. Unthinking obedience to a higher power, be it sacred texts or codes and regulations, is irrational. Some religious practices, and some regulations, are beneficial. Most become twisted and harmful.
Lately progressives want to equate social engineering regulations with the success of things like food safety and pollution regulation. They’re not the same thing at all. There’s a big difference between protecting people from actual pollution or preventing E. coli in food and penalizing energy use or excessive soda drinking. The latter are sin taxes and dietary commandments based on the whims and financial requirements imposed by fire and brimstone preachers of the state. Regulations should be used sparingly and lightly to neither distort the market nor limit individual freedom.
Here’s your reason: “Adame told neighbors that the overgrown shrubbery, which is technically on public land, became a haven for homeless people who slept under it and littered the area.”
Somebody in the city administration decided Mr. Adame needed some sensitivity re-education on “plight of the homeless”. Also the city worker’s union probably had something to say about him stealing their hours. So he gets felony vandalism charges for pruning. The process is the punishment.
Its California. Bums are a protected species. They are like sacred cows in India.
I like Gord’s Roundup solution for this reason. Its effective and anonymous, and in reality its what I would do given this situation. Also more humane than the Louisville Slugger option.
I cut the lower branches off the trees in the ravine as I found the bottle pickets who ride calgarys LRT for free come up into the suburbs now. RAID the recycle bins and fill their carts offloading under the tres in the park. City employees and cops are too busy to fix the situation
I do a lot of things that the civil service has no time for. I carry side cutters to trim branches that are at eye level on their scrawny sidewalk trees. While waiting for a bus on day I took out a dozen thistles that had grown up through the cracks one was nearly 4 ft high
After heavy downpour of a summer storm, I unplugged 3 of 4 drains on the respective corners down from where I live.
Next time, I’ll wait until dark just to be safe.
Oh, oh, I just remembered the police plane flying 24/7 overhead w/night vision goggles.
Maybe, I better just let it flood. I don’t live in a corner house.
“we are all just unconvicted criminals” some liberal chick
If statists were truthful they would charge him for the crime of independent action; a cardinal sin in a bureaucratic society. The proper way to approach this problem would have been to create a committee to study the problem and hire consultants to survey the area, put in motion activated cameras to record the number of people walking through the area and sleeping there and also hiring a number of American Indians to determine whether there was any religious significance to the shrubbery which grew in this area.
After several years of research, the committee would consider the findings and then ask for input from “stakeholders” which would include the people sleeping under the bushes. This would require the hiring of numerous social workers and their ilk to prepare a “victim impact” statement should a decision be made to alter the local flora. Another several years would be required for deliberations and, in the meantime, a needle exchange program would be setup to ensure that the health of the local “inhabitants” is preserved. Anthropologists would be brought in to ascertain whether the concentration of the homeless in this area constituted a social grouping which needed to be preserved. This would likely require several more years of studies.
Finally, a grand report would be issued after perhaps a decade or more of investigation and would recommend – more studies need to be done before any decision can be made regarding whether the overgrown plants can be cut back. Lip service would be paid to the concerns of the local residents of the area who may have issues about the homeless sleeping, defecating and fornicating amongst the bushes but the anthropologists report citing the unique spontaneous cultural organization that has arisen in that area would be heavily referenced. A temporary regulation prohibiting any homeowner from altering the shrubbery would be passed pending the final review of the situation. Consideration would also be required for the very large number of consultants, social workers, colon therapists, needle exchange personnel, botanists, anthropologists and others whose livelyhood depended on the continued existence of this unique patch of botanical growth and its transient population. A separate committee would be struck to investigate the impact of clearing the shrubbery on the lives of this group of dedicated workers.
That is the proper way to do things and the delusion that a single individual can out-think a large number of experts, who, in years of deliberation are unable to come to a definitive conclusion regarding whether a certain action should be taken is worthy of criminal charges.
Or you could sneak out by the dark of night, spray the shrubs with Roundup, and then blame their subsequent withering on all the hobo pee.
I’ve seen it happen too many times.
What starts out as “harmless” chewing on a blade of grass, rapidly escalates into frenzied pruning and weed-whacking.
Next thing ya know, the guy is decapitating some hapless passenger on a bus in Manitoba.
A SWAT team should have been sent to take this guy out.
If it saves just one shrub, it’s worth it.
A very good illustration of why “mandatory minimums” can be problematic.
If a judge’s hands are tied, then this guys off to the slammer for trimming the hedge.
God help what they’d do to someone who really did vandalism…..like throwing a gum wrapper on the ground, probably the rack.
Loki, Gordin, Dystopian, et al…
That’s why I like SDA – the comments are often more entertaining than the stories themselves.
Hobo pee, hehehehehehe…
This is the problem with the regulatory state – it turns normal people into complete idiots. To me it shows how the religious impulse endures even without formal religion. Unthinking obedience to a higher power, be it sacred texts or codes and regulations, is irrational. Some religious practices, and some regulations, are beneficial. Most become twisted and harmful.
Lately progressives want to equate social engineering regulations with the success of things like food safety and pollution regulation. They’re not the same thing at all. There’s a big difference between protecting people from actual pollution or preventing E. coli in food and penalizing energy use or excessive soda drinking. The latter are sin taxes and dietary commandments based on the whims and financial requirements imposed by fire and brimstone preachers of the state. Regulations should be used sparingly and lightly to neither distort the market nor limit individual freedom.
Here’s your reason: “Adame told neighbors that the overgrown shrubbery, which is technically on public land, became a haven for homeless people who slept under it and littered the area.”
Somebody in the city administration decided Mr. Adame needed some sensitivity re-education on “plight of the homeless”. Also the city worker’s union probably had something to say about him stealing their hours. So he gets felony vandalism charges for pruning. The process is the punishment.
Its California. Bums are a protected species. They are like sacred cows in India.
I like Gord’s Roundup solution for this reason. Its effective and anonymous, and in reality its what I would do given this situation. Also more humane than the Louisville Slugger option.
I cut the lower branches off the trees in the ravine as I found the bottle pickets who ride calgarys LRT for free come up into the suburbs now. RAID the recycle bins and fill their carts offloading under the tres in the park. City employees and cops are too busy to fix the situation
I do a lot of things that the civil service has no time for. I carry side cutters to trim branches that are at eye level on their scrawny sidewalk trees. While waiting for a bus on day I took out a dozen thistles that had grown up through the cracks one was nearly 4 ft high
After heavy downpour of a summer storm, I unplugged 3 of 4 drains on the respective corners down from where I live.
Next time, I’ll wait until dark just to be safe.
Oh, oh, I just remembered the police plane flying 24/7 overhead w/night vision goggles.
Maybe, I better just let it flood. I don’t live in a corner house.
“we are all just unconvicted criminals” some liberal chick