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12-Year-Old Girl Was Shooting Baskets Alone – Then City Sent Over a Crew to Remove the Hoop for Social Distancing.
GP ^ | June 11,2020 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 04/11/2020 6:42:16 PM PDT by Hojczyk

A 12-year-old girl was shooting hoops alone outside her home near Little Rock, Arkansas.

Then city officials sent a crew out to take down the hoop. It violated their social distancing orders.

A 12-year-old girl was playing basketball alone on a court near her family’s home when city officials arrived and removed the hoop as part of “social distancing” enforcement.

The girl’s mother, Laura Vandercook, wrote about the episode at The Federalist (where I also have a byline). She said her family lives on “a small mountain in a suburb of Little Rock, Arkansas,” which butts up against a city green space that includes a small basketball court, a court she said is “fairly ignored.”

To emphasize how much the city ignores this particular court, Vandercook said her family used their own money to purchase a net for the basketball hoop, since it was missing. Her husband also dug a drainage canal to keep it from flooding, and regularly cleaned it of debris.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


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1 posted on 04/11/2020 6:42:16 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Homeless, illegals, gay events, muslims, subways and abortion mills left alone...


2 posted on 04/11/2020 6:44:28 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: Hojczyk

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3834039/posts


3 posted on 04/11/2020 6:47:41 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: 2banana

I’m hating what’s beginning to happen all across this country. Buford T. Justices are out in droves. Something’s gotta give. Soon


4 posted on 04/11/2020 6:50:25 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: 2banana

This is crazy.

I went from staten Island to brooklyn to bring a gal pal a heating pad for her back at about 10pm the other day.

I double parked with a police cruiser in front.

He had some business in the building, rode he elevator with me, I mentioned I was going to visit my friend and he said nothing.

We’re only supposed to be going out for food or meds.

But it’s not really being enforced.

Maybe these are isolated cases?


5 posted on 04/11/2020 6:51:50 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point finges aat me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Hojczyk

I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
You don’t know how lucky you are boy
Back in the U.S.
Back in the U.S.
Back in the U.S.S.R.


6 posted on 04/11/2020 6:54:28 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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7 posted on 04/11/2020 6:56:17 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Hojczyk

Fascists gonna be fascists. Totalitarians all.


8 posted on 04/11/2020 6:57:19 PM PDT by A strike (" Was that wrong? Should I not have done this? " - Costanza)
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To: dp0622

It probably would cost less for a new heating pad than the Verrazano toll.


9 posted on 04/11/2020 6:57:21 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: o-n-money

Gateway Pundit. That’s all.


10 posted on 04/11/2020 6:59:02 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: dfwgator

Flu nazis


11 posted on 04/11/2020 6:59:59 PM PDT by deks
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To: o-n-money

Yeah but...one needs to see her figure...this being Easter weekend I’ll leave it at that...


12 posted on 04/11/2020 7:00:21 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point finges aat me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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People vary in their degrees of insanity. My four year old, who has been spending too much time listening to my estranged wife, told be that we stop the virus by not going out to do anything fun.

The new puritanism.


BTW Small town boys don’t double park. I’d even forgotten that that was a thing.


13 posted on 04/11/2020 7:01:37 PM PDT by Hieronymus (“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.Â)
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To: smvoice
hate what I see from our govt...especially the cops.....

Trump needs to declare the national emergency over, with some stipulations, and give us our freedom again...

14 posted on 04/11/2020 7:02:36 PM PDT by cherry
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‘Something’s gotta give. Soon’

we’ll have nationwide lockdowns through May; book it...all it’s going to take is stupid cops and cabin fever rage, and it appears we’ve got plenty of both...


15 posted on 04/11/2020 7:03:16 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Hojczyk

The city will probably put it back.

This country has turned into the USSR, China, Nazi Germany. Our ancestors are probably rolling over in their graves. Everything that has been fought for is gone. Thanks baby boomers.


16 posted on 04/11/2020 7:04:15 PM PDT by moviefan8
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To: dp0622

well i would kind of consider that going out for meds


17 posted on 04/11/2020 7:04:48 PM PDT by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: Hieronymus

How long do we not go out and have fun!!?

Isn’t a month enough already?!?!

Well Staten Island’s south shore is good with little double parking.

But Brooklyn..forget about it.


18 posted on 04/11/2020 7:05:07 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point finges aat me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Hieronymus

And i’m sure your wife means well.

So much disinformation out there and with a child they really know how to hit a woman’s maternal instinct.


19 posted on 04/11/2020 7:05:57 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point finges aat me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Hojczyk

“...which butts up against a city green space that includes a small basketball court,...”


If it’s the city’s basketball court, the city can do with it whatever it wants. It’s not like they took down a basket in the girl’s yard.


20 posted on 04/11/2020 7:06:39 PM PDT by hanamizu
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