i undersatnd about the yard looking like shit and trashy but the fact is the car has been parked there for a week and its not junker it's a 07 nissan pathfinder. lol. i agree its the stupid law that is in place and the code compliance officer is obviously can't discern an abandoned car from one that is not abandoned. my real problem is that they said "it hasn't moved in 72 hours" how would they absolutely know that for sure without marking the pavement or having a constant surveillance? i mean, hell, i could be moving it every day into the garage to work on it in my spare time.Grinner wrote:Dont take this wrong, Im not slamming you.jnobles06 wrote:hell today i have a car parked in front of my house that has a bad fuel pump and the inspection is out. it got tagged to tow! i called the police dept and they dumb ass dispatch lady put me on with the captain and he said because it hasnt moved in 48 hrs and the inspection was out it was considered abandoned, i said "well its my car, parked in front of my house, and i'm the owner who is telling you it is not abandoned" and he said "according to the law it is". not to mention the "hasn't moved in 48 hrs b/s" wtf do they have an officer watching the car all day? (they didn't mark the road with chalk lines on the tires either). with the power the government and corporations have this country isn't free at all.
What you mentioned above is a prime example of our responsibilities to our own well being and the loss of common sense.
That law was put into place...
1) lets be understanding, do you want a few of your neighbors to have "junkers" (or abandoned in your case) in front of their houses? Would that not discourage good, ethical, common sense folk from buying your house at the price you know you can get? (and yes...I am referring to "whitetrash")
So you have to put a law into place to help out the community when they get disgusted!
2) this is what happenes when the community decides its not important to participate in the city council meetings in their community. Then they get all bent outta shape when they suddenly start getting ticketed for putting up a garage sale sign, cutting a tree down, or whatever stupid stuff you can think up.
this is the second time something like this has happened to me (same officer). last time i had parked my mustang at an angle in my driveway and the front passenger tire was turned into the grass. i got a knock on the door at 7am (i work till 12 every night and don't usually fall asleep till 3-4am). the officer said that he was giving me a warning because it was against code to park in my yard. i couldn't really believe this was even happening at first. how is one tire in the grass considered parking in my yard to a rational person? it's not it the law that was bad. it was just the incompetence, or the ego of the officer interpreting the law to give justification to his job.
i would love to have time to attend a city council meeting, but our society has put the majority of its population in a situation where one does not have enough time in one's schedule to attend a meeting because anyone, in our society has to pay to play the game of life. and if you're not up in the $$ you are pressured by society (be it family, friends, ego, bills. ect) to get more $$. if you're a bum, or even a middle class member who actually has the time to attend these meeting you can bet the more prestigious members of your community will win the vote almost every time due to their financial means, the time they have available to tend to the matters of law, and though those two things they have a greater ability to persuade the majority in their favor. that is just how it goes in a democratic/capitalistic society. the rich stay in power be cause the lower classes are working to be rich and thus don't have the time for the important things. that is until the lower classes get fed up then of course there is a revolution.
