Dollars to donuts, gravel and dirt are both banned.
The guy shouldn’t have pulled a gun. You do that and the local authorities are going to have to respond whether it’s a swat team or not.
What these ordinances do mean though, is that in the end lethal force will be used to make you comply if you don’t do it willingly.
Is grass (weed) length really something we want to execute people for? Evidently the city thinks so.
We can say the swat team came out because he leveled a gun at someone, and that is true. What it all boils down to though, is this guy didn’t want his grass cut. He sought to keep it from being cut. The city fielded a paramilitary force to make sure the grass was cut.
Just damn... Sure hope they don’t ban Freeping.
There’s lots of places to live where you don’t have to cut your grass. He could move to one of those places. And it works our great for him because not cutting your own grass lowers your neighbors’ property values much more than your own.
If as Home Ownes Association banned freeping you can bet there will be defenders here at FR saying “Then don’t buy a house and live in that neighborhood”. As if there’s a choice in some cities.