A Florida Judge Says $165,000 in Fines for 3 Minor Code Violations Is Not 'Excessive'

Reason ^ | 10 Apr, 2024 | Jacob Sullum

[kaila]

I am shocked at your response. Its her house, her lawn, her fence. Why do you think the government should be telling a homeowner not to park in their private yard? I have cracks in my driveway, does that means the government should force me to fix that if I don’t have money? Unless her property is an eyesore, with garbage and rodents running free, the government needs to stay out of it. Cracks in the driveway, a blown down fence and a tire on the grass does not merit governmental interference. This site is called Free Republic, and you are showing that you prefer governmental force on its citizens. Why are you here?

[discostu]

I don’t know. I’d love to say it seems excessive. But it seems to be 99% late fees and daily accumulations from letting stuff sit for a decade or more. That’s going to make anything climb. The initial fines were small, but you let them sit and rot for 10 years...

[Keyhopper]

Men are worthless

[ladyjane]

Why do so many foreigners want to get into a position of power to change our country into their old lousy country. If their old country was so great - why did they leave?

The same thing could be said about people moving from liberal states to conservative ones.

[Phoenix8]

A great example of that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilhan_Omar#/media/File:Ilhan_Omar,_official_portrait,_116th_Congress_(cropped)_A.jpg

[kaila]

If you google earth Lantana FL, you will find many driveways with cracks

[Sequoyah101]

There is something about being an "official" that drives what may have been normal people to become ogres bent on draconian control of the mere sheeple they now see themselves obligated to control. Fact is, they were seated to SERVE the people and somehow they pervert that to CONTROL the people. The effect of election or designation to become an "official" seems to be universal. This group of proposals emerged in the local paper just this week. Some probably should have been in place long ago but others are just outright unnecessary and probably even unenforceable. I don't very often see anyone walking their pet alligator on a leash in the park:

• Adding a section prohibiting the sale or give away of animals at the roadside or at parking lots within the city, without specific exceptions

• Requiring spaying or neutering of domesticated animals, except those belonging to hobby breeders and kennels, or under the care of a veterinarian or animal hospital

• Requiring tags and collars, as well as rabies vaccination • Limiting animals in city parks and on park trails to dogs only, which must be on a leash at all times

• Impounding, euthanizing or adopting out of animals • Regaining [retaining?] impounded animals, which requires licensing, vaccinating and spaying or neutering

• Adding a section on feeding of stray dogs, cats or other stray animals

• Prohibiting the feeding of stray animals, except by a veterinarian or an employee of a humane society or by special permit by the city

• Licensing and limiting the number of animals owned without obtaining a special handlers license from the city

• Prohibiting the restraint of animals by chaining or tying, unless authorized by an animal welfare official

• Requiring liability insurance or surety bond indemnifying the owner of personal injuries inflicted by a dangerous animal

• Clarifying the definition of domestic birds, small animals, household pets, rabies and feeding of animals • Keeping of swine, which is limited to miniature pigs, except for educational programs and exhibition purposes

• Eliminating special handlers licenses

You may not be able to fight city hall but you can't fight ignorance either.

[kaila]

I refuse to pay license fees for my dogs. I find it wrong that I am forced to pay the government to own a pet, yet I am also being forced to pay for other countries wars, illegals, and irresponsible parents who pop out babies yet expect the rest of us to pay for it.

[alexander_busek]

Any reasonable suggestions? Thought not.

Look instead at:

• the sky;
• the trees;
• your own lawn;
• the beam in your own eye.

Regards,

[moovova]

I’ll consider those. It’ll make me a better person. ;-)

[logi_cal869]

In my experience, I agree: Most men are.

Full disclosure: I operate behind enemy lines.

[Freest Republican]

Govt drones will soon be employed to engage in this activity.

Where’s the best governor in the nation?

[Albion Wilde]

This is like a Charles Dickens novel, where struggling people were sent to the poorhouse to work off astronomical debts levied by the Crown’s corrupt representatives.

[Albion Wilde]

There is something about being an "official" that drives what may have been normal people to become ogres bent on draconian control of the mere sheeple they now see themselves obligated to control.

100%. “A little bit of power...”

[Keyhopper]

I’m swimming in an ocean of estrogen and Im so. far into enemy lines anyone north of commercial boulevard is a yankee