You and the rest of that fairy tail trash, poisoning my perfect world!"
Posted on 06/21/2012 12:19:13 PM PDT by grundle
Denver mom Sarah Cohen says drawing sidewalk chalk art is one of her three-year-old daughter Emerson's "simple pleasures in life."
"It's definitely better than video games," Cohen told KCNC.
However, the homeowner's association in Cohen's neighborhood feels differently. They say Emerson's drawings -- usually of hearts and flowers -- are distracting and offensive blights on their community.
"My initial reaction was, 'You have to be kidding me," Cohen said.
The association, called Innovations and Courtyard Traditions at Stapleton, temporarily banned children from drawing on sidewalks, saying anything that offends, disturbs or interferes with the peaceful enjoyment is not allowed on shared spaces.
They said neighbors have been complaining about chalk drawings like Emerson's.
The group's attorney told the station that the association is going down a path of "do no harm" and is temporarily banning the chalk art until it is discussed in depth at a later meeting. It will then be up to the residents to decide if the art will be permanently banned.
Cohen said she has not personally received any complaints from neighbors, and her daughter will continue to draw as a sort of mini protest against the temporary ban.
No lemonade stands, no chalk art; seems the Grinch has taken over local government all over America even as his big brother takes over the national machinery.
Incidentally, by contrast, in Medina Ohio recently, they held a "chalk art festival," a sunny weekend when anyone who wanted to could do chalk art on city sidewalks all over the central square. Made for a nice day out in the town, and anyone who would have been "offended" would have been laughed out of town.
You and the rest of that fairy tail trash, poisoning my perfect world!"
Timne for ‘mid-night messaging’
Why should the parents have to buy their kid a white board or anything else? The parents are most certainly paying easement taxes and upkeep fees on the sidewalk. They have PAID for the right to let their kid play on the sidewalk in whatever manner they see fit.
I see a loophole. The headline leads me to believe that while children can't draw on the sidewalk, nothing would disallow ME from doing so.
And I would it too. Just to piss off the old biddies at the HOA.
Have these morons really thought about the can of worms they are opening with such vague, open-ended idiocy? Let them pass this, then if I was the little girl's parents I'd go ape shit on the HOA-everything that happened on that sidewalk would "offend" or "disturb" me. Walk by with clicking shoes? I'm "disturbed." Walk by with a dog? Hey, I converted to Islam and I'm "offended." Drown the a-holes with complaints and demands for action.
I know this is a HOA, but it is instructive to note that Dennis Rader, the serial killer known as the “BTK (Bind Torture Kill) killer”, took a several years hiatus from torturing women because he got enough pleasure working as a Code Enforcement employee...
Really classy there.
These 'sensitive' types would have been run out of my neighbor PDQ.
On my block we could have fielded almost 20 5-7 year olds, all armed with cap pistols and capable of making life in the summer a living hell for the 'sensitives.
Of course we'd be off the streets before the dads got come.
“Innovations and Courtyard Traditions at Stapleton” — how gay is that?
And what’s more of a “courtyard tradition” than sidewalk chalk drawings?
one of my neighbor’s is always calling the city on me: dog is barking, grass grown too long, is the contractor working on my house licensed?
Ahole neighbors is the reason we moved to 10 Acres in the middle of the woods.
“——and the old biddies doing the enforcing.”
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Where the hell does it say that older women were doing the complaining?
Idiot!
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It’s about time they cracked down on these lawless thugs!
‘dog is barking’
Back when I was young and foolish, I did visit a neighbor about his barking dog, to say it didn’t go well would be an understatement.
I did it a second time with another neighbor who let his dog bark for hour on end. He treated me like dog shit.
Not to be a fool, after that I always let animal control do the talking for me.
Personally, I think people who have barking dogs know it, and not only don’t give a rats ass about anyone else, they’re assholes to boot. I don’t suffer assholes well. History has taught me to ALWAYS use someone else to deliver the message.
“Ahole neighbors is the reason we moved to 10 Acres in the middle of the woods.”
Ain’t it great? I have my own lake and woods with no one for
3/4 of a mile. Nothing fancy, but I wouldn’t trade it for the
fanciest penthouse in some smelly, crime ridden cesspool of
a city.
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