Posted on 05/16/2005 6:14:30 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage
LANTANA, Fla. -- She's in and out of the hospital, and he just returned from serving his country in Afghanistan, yet the town of Lantana wants the couple's top priority to be fixing their yard.
The clock is ticking for a soldier and his family to follow orders -- or else.
When Army Sgt. Mike Neal returned from the war over the weekend, he went to bed, got up the next day, and started seeding his yard.
Code enforcement told them seeding wasn't enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at wpbfnews.com ...
318 South Dixie Highway
Lantana, FL 33462
Phone: (561) 540-5790
Email: code@lantana.org
Let them hear from you.
Home owners associations and town code enforcers are the worst of the worst.
FYI bump
Real neighbors are rare today.
Hopefully some local landscapers will come to his rescue.
YES... someone called code enforcement for my mom putting down pavers in her driveway and my next door neighbor for having a covered car in her own garage!
A real neighbor would have helped!
Amazing. That HOA is a disgrace.
Hopefully a patriotic sod farm will pick up the story...they could sod that yard in an afternoon, I bet.
Jackboots and brownshirts are mandatory.
That's some thanks for serving our country, eh? He makes sacrifices so some weenie's most pressing concern is a yard without grass.
I just find it hard to believe that the county would raise my mom's taxes for putting in stone pavers that no one else has :(
Thanks for the outrage ping.
Hannity and Hewitt etc. need to get this on the air.
I'm sure they will. I'll bet several people have already contacted WPBF 25 asking how they can help. Something along these lines happened where I live and because of the massive community outrage the offending party was shamed into rethinking and changing their position.
Yep, where are the good neighbors?
I love Oklahoma...yesterday we were trying to remove a tree that had fallen in our yard...got everything off the top, but had about 7' of stump to deal with! We were trying to pull it over with our pickup.
This guy driving by saw us and jumped out, took a reciprocating saw and sawed down deep around the root and that tree just popped out of the ground! Then he went home and got a chain saw and cut it into pieces for us!
I gave him a dozen fresh eggs for his trouble!
A complete stranger, just stopped to help. It's typical of Oklahoma, I've found.
What HOA???
This is the city code enforcement harrassing him.
Anyway, all he has to do is fix it as time allows, stop in on the evening council meeting at city hall and request a dismissal. With the news article and his Iraq service they'll drop the fines.
I agree. When my husband was stationed away from home for three years, I had a lot of health problems and was unable to maintain our yard like I wanted to. We weren't in violation of any codes, but it just didn't look good. My neighbors, a couple in their 70's, helped me frequently. The wife helped me cut down a very large bush and helped me dig up the roots and she was 73 years old at the time.
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Red areas of red states are great, aren't they!</p>
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