Posted on 11/22/2011 6:04:11 AM PST by servo1969
Garland wants to be your boss, your big brother, your nanny, your wet nurse and your house sitter all rolled into one.
Heather Fazio, Texas Libertarian Party Membership Coordinator, issued the following Action Alert about Garland's city council meeting scheduled for November 14:
Council is requested to consider the recommendation of the Building and Fire Code Board and the Plumbing and Mechanical Code Board to adopt the 2009 International Fire, Residential, Building, Energy Conservation, Plumbing, Mechanical, Property Maintenance and Fuel Gas Codes along with local amendments.
What this means, Fazio explains, is that the city wants to make it mandatory for everyone to place a key box, like the ones used by real estate agents, on all doors to local businesses and homes so the Fire Department, or whomever they appoint, can enter your home or business at any time.
If you have a gate, they want a copy of that key too. "If you refuse," Fazio says, "the City will be able to refuse services, i.e., let the fire burn!"
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
I knew I was saving all those mystery keys for a reason.
Please tell me this is a hoax?
Recently my wife and I were visiting next door when an exterior door opened setting off our alarm. S.O.showed up, noticed the open door, entered the home fearing some kind of problem, searched about for a medical or incapacitated resident finding none they spotted us next door. The deputy was more than polite explaining exactly why he entered our residence and of course I had no problem with his doing the job he did. Somehow that does not compute with this ridicules potential regulation in Garland where it seems they can enter for any reason day or night.
I think I saw that in a porno once.
Not sure, but they have a white paper written by the Garland, TX Fire Chief on the front page of their website.
I used to be a cop in an upper middle class suburb of Cincinnati. The citizens voluntarily gave a copy of their house keys to the P.D. whicher were kept under lock and key. Lots of elderly residents. Whenever someone had not heard from “Mom” or “Dad” or “Grandma” or “Grandpa” in over a week they’d call the P.D. and we’d grab the key and go check up on them.
Usually, all it ook was opening the door, getting a whiff of “that stench” and closing the door and calling the Coronor’s office.
But, once in awhile, it saved a life. I responded to an elderly woman who had her artificial hip come dislodged from her pelvis while she was int eh shower. The neighbors her her screams of pain and I was able to respopnd with the key and render aid.
I have it on VHS...it stars Racquel Darrian...she’s hot...
That night, not thinking (also a lil under from anesthetic), he sets the alarm and the motion detectors inside.
Well, I get up, walk to the Lou...{{{{Wee wong wee wong wee wong}}}} Scared the living you know what outta me!
Next thing I know, a knock on the door, then another, then louder.....
So, all discombobulated, no shirt, I open the door to the officer. To my surprise, it was this really really cute, blonde headed, kinda petite female officer.
CRAP!!!
In a firm but mousy lil voice, she asks if everything was alright.
CRAP!!!
So much for the, yea everythings fine (explanation...)
Hey, how bout you and I....
Just kidding, just kidding.....well not really.
Hey, I can’t help it if spiders like spinning their webs in those boxes. Make sure you tell the doctor which one bit you — the one with the red hourglass or the one with the brown fiddle.
When I was living up in Ann Arbor in my youth I rented an apartment with my friend for a couple of years. His father came over for dinner one night and he saw the keys to my gun cabinet hanging in the lock. He told me that a lock really doesn’t do much to protect your guns if you leave the keys in it. I just looked at him and said “True, but I don’t have clean up the broken glass this way.” He thought about it for a second and then agreed completely with me.
My home has two sliding glass door-walls on the downstairs level. If someone was going to want in my home a big rock and a windup is all they need to gain instant access. Everything I really can’t replace I keep locked in my safe, anything else is just an inconvenience so long as my pets or family isn’t hurt. Now if I’m home and it happened, well, that’s a much different story.
Yes, and in a preemptory role in advance of an actual or perceived state of civil unrest they will also use the key to enter your home and remove every self defense object that you have stored in it...or am I being paranoid?
Key word highlighted above...
LOL!
>>> “My daughter’s friend in New Jersey was recently “surprised” when she walked into her kitchen, and a fireman was standing there. There was no fire in the neighborhood.”
Wuz he cuuuuuuuuute? C’mon, tell me he was cute! and wearin nothin but a smile. with a great big... axe.
My mother answered her cell phone one Sunday in the drug store, where she had stopped in her way home form church. The conversation went like this.
Caller Hello Mrs Kalee’s mom Are you at home?
Mom No
Caller Where are you?
Mom At the drugstore. Who are YOU?
Caller You had better come home your house is on fire.
Mom WHAT?
Caller, Yes ma’am, I’m with the fire dept; we’re at your house. Your neighbor gave us your cell phone number, you need to come home.
Mom drives home. Her pool chemicals in the garage had gotten overly warm and had ignited. The fire was contained to the garage in oine area.
The FD however broke every door and window in the house. Minimal damage to the garage, smoke damage to the rest of the house, most likely, according to the insurance adjuster, caused by the smoky air allowed to enter and circulate after the FD broke down all the doors.
Mom jokes they used her house for training practice for new firemen. The FD said they broke them down searching for her. Her neighbor told the FD she was not home, but had gone to church when they asked him who lived there and where she was.
She does not joke about the insurance company not wanting to pay though. The excess damage was not their problem. The adjuster told her the company thought the fire might be indicative of a meth lab. The adjuster, the police chief and the fire chief all vouched for her so the insurance co settled.
stuff them in the trunk of a Volt.
i believe the point of the rail is to actually get them out of town... not have them hanging around while the darn thing charges enough to travel a few blocks...
teeman
Dear Garland City Council:
GFY and the Horse you rode in.
Warmest, Kindest Regards,
Hale
“...remove every self defense object that you have stored in it...or am I being paranoid?...”
No, you’re not paranoid.
There’s NO VALID REASON to make it easier for ANYONE to violate your private property.
By providing a key, you provide approval.
This is THE stupidest, most assinine thing I have ever heard a local gov come up with. And notice the THREAT they level at you if you refuse???
You Garland folks should find out where these PUBLIC SERVANT councilcritters live and pay them a visit with tar and feathers. Or whatever else suits your fancy.
Make your displeasure known NOW, in large numbers, and with very loud voices.
Failing that...remember you’re Texans. Historically, you know how to deal with thugs.
I'm all for the modernized "coating" (that JB Quick-Weld would stick worse than tar, for sure), but the rails were used because it allowed the mob to carry the miscreant without touching them (and getting tarred as well) - and said rails were always handy and cheap/disposable.
I just don't see the Chevy Volt as an adequate replacement for a normal vehicle, or even a chunk of lumber. Gotta ponder the "means of conveyance" a bit more here. I was thinking something along the lines of a large catapult, but if the payload adheres you could get an ugly "Wile E. Coyote" result.
Apologies. I had to double check to make certain this wasn’t an Onion piece.
I would have thought this nonsense would have been tried in California long before it was ever tried in Texas.
Still, it would be good to get independent corroboration of this.
I found this on SwagIt.com (”Swagit Productions, LLC is a leading video production company specializing in providing streaming media solutions to radio and television stations, newspapers, magazines, local government agencies and other online entities. Swagit.com is the premier portal for such entities who want the ability to deliver, create, host, and broadcast live or on-demand audio/video content through the Internet. Our combined years of experience offers our customers the expertise, knowledge and product base in the fields of video production, composition, sales, networking, design and technical communications.”)
http://garlandtx.swagit.com/currentwin.php?refid=11142011-85
See “item 2” at the link.
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