Okay I am on the homeowners side on this one.
why doesn't the school board move the bus stop? It's not like those are his kids the bus is picking up.
Plus if the wheelchair ramp somehow damages his drive way will the county pay for damages? We know the answer and it's yes but it will be like pulling teeth by way of a lawsuit. Plus since the ramp uses his driveway I understand he does now want people trespassing on his property.
The county should have moved the stop to where these kids lived and picked them up there.
As for the sprinkler system. It's his yard and they were on it.
I agree.
They’re plenty of ways to handle this situation before turning the sprinklers on two disabled children, the two children had nothing to do with choosing the location of the bus stop but he put them on the receiving end of what is in effect bullying, a 61-year old man hosing down two disabled children is hardly the actions of being a good neighbor
I don’t see how it’s proper to punish disabled children as your response especially when the children didn’t choose to be disabled or the bus stop
It appears that he’s not a racist, so he’s got at least that going for him.
He’s apparently sprayed people walking by his house on his side of the street and kids on Halloween, not just the bus stop or the kids and their father. It appears his residence is actually in the Bronx and he claims a homestead exemption for this house in Ocala. Might be a case of mortgage fraud. Issues between many neighbors and him and his wife. Looks like he’s got a surveillance system and might be remotely activating the sprinkler system when he sees people near his property. Looking a lot like he’s the problem.
Really? This guy is an ass. Kids in a wheelchair? I’m not in favor of criminal prosecution I think the police should have just warned him.
First off, there is no ramp, the school bus is equipped with a wheelchair lift and it certainly won't damage his property since they are loading it from the street, which is not his property.
Anybody supporting this moron's actions is an idiot.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=do+school+buses+have+wheel+chair+ramps#fpstate=ive&imgdii=t1H_gnSp3XXgDM&imgrc=pJl6I8XOx9ndrM&vld=cid:a562f669,vid:7xX6vnB_OGY,st:0
This video shows more, the sprinklers are aimed beyond his property, even hitting the street, plus he seems to be a bit of a nut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KurLZwF7nf8
Well ok, the homeowner has a point ,but he went about it the wrong way. The special needs children had nothing to do with it. For that he should be flogged.
I agree that the stop should be moved. Why is it in front of his house! But....he took the wrong approach. If he had tried to get the stop moved going through channels, he might have garnered a bit of empathy.
The man needs God in his life!
Being an azzhole should hurt. He doesn’t own that part of the yard.
Couldn’t he have just removed the ramp instead? I’d back him up on that.
To each his own, I guess I personally would rather assume room temperature before I grew petty enough to turn the sprinklers on disabled kids because the wheelchair ramp of their school bus made contact with my driveway for a few minutes each day.
The father of the disabled kids should have called the local news station. They could have pressured the county to move the bus stop.
So instead of dealing with the school board and school system he went after disabled kids. Sorry he was an ass.
So - instead of lodging formal complaints, going to extremes to attack/harass wheelchair-bound, handicapped kids in is the answer?
“Officials say he intentionally activated the sprinklers twice daily, when his two victims departed for school and again when they returned.
Deputies said the father of the children had to resort to wearing a swim suit to shield his children, who use wheelchairs, from the repeat behavior.
Footage obtained by WFTV shows the sprinklers activating as two of the children are being wheeled out to the bus.
One of the sprinklers appears to rotate round to soak the child and their father as they are pushed onto the bus.
Police say the neighbors had advised them that such behavior had been ongoing since August 8 of last year.
A detective sat and watched the property and found he was using a surveillance system to activate the sprinklers which were aimed directly at the bus.”
The guy is an asshole - same goes for his supporters.
How long would it take for the kids to be picked up or dropped off by the school bus? Like, what, a few measly minutes?
Yet this guy deliberately was ‘on it’ during those very times? He couldn’t be inside his house doing something else? He HAD to be oh so noticeable of those very times and that annoyed him?
He’s a sadist who is taking out his meanness on these young children who are just trying to go to school.
As if life for them isn’t hard enough they are children who are disabled for life and will likely NEVER get over the trauma this cruel and rotten person has caused them. They now have embedded in them the very real knowledge and fear of the world because of their vulnerablility. A fear of ones like him who ARE out there and WILL take advantage of their presence on the planet just to inflict pain on someone to satisfy their own inner cruel desire to inflict pain.
There are better words for this guy than the ones used here.
Where I live they pull the bus or van directly in front of the child’s home to pick them up or drop them off.
What? No more late night posting for you!