We can’t have the serfs scribbling upon the king’s rocks now, can we?
Looks like there's a Hatfield vs McCoy twist happening here.
The video doesn’t make it clear at all just how bad the chalking was. I recall many times coming home to find my young daughter and her friends had filled my driveway with flowers, trees, horses and other chalk drawings. I always though of it in a positive light myself, but you know how hard arsed and totalitarian those park service people can get.
See my tagline.
This should be max...$100 fine
I'm calling BS on this. You don't cover up chalk drawings, you take a water hose to it. And of course he tried to up the ante with claiming the chalk drawings were pronographic. Sure, as if everyone out doing graffiti does it with little kid chalk.
In the mean time government employees are abetting illegal aliens, running guns to Mexican cartels, passing out money illegally to donars, misusing government funds for vacations and bonuses, imposing laws that were never enacted through illegal regulation and bullying...
We are coming down hard on the chalk lady? She’s just a peasant.
No it's not, Ralph. In fact, it's not even close.
"A couple of weeks ago, I was covering over pornographic drawings done in chalk.Covering them over??? Wouldn't washing away the chalk have done the job?
She has to do all these in 50 hours? That is one post every 15 minutes. I do not think so!
Susan Mortensen (left) watches her daughter Ava, 4, draw on the sidewalk outside police headquarters. The troublemaker is Ava Mortensen, a 4-year-old girl with bright blue eyes, sequined shoes and a winsome smile. A week ago Ava's mother, Susan Mortensen, was ticketed by Richmond police and banned from public parks for allowing her daughter to draw on Belle Isle rocks with sidewalk chalk. "Ava, what were you drawing a picture of at the river?" her mother asks. "Butterflies and stars," Ava says.
An out of town friend emailed me this morning about this.
My reply:
Rant on:
I also think the punishment is excessive. A fine, $100.00, or so, would have been more appropriate.
The rest of the story: Apparently this is not her 1st time doing something like this, so maybe that was why the penalty was so harsh.
The funny part was all the YMs (Young Mothers) rising to her defense. Some of them citing their own experiences with their little “precious adorables” chalking up their driveways, and front walks, illustrating how “advanced and creative” they are. What they don’t seem to get is that it wasn’t her property that this little “darling,” enabled by her entitled feeling mother, was defacing.
Rant off