Posted on 04/20/2010 6:51:38 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Unsanctioned pruning at Oak Cliff park drew complaints, but 67-year-old's arrest makes neighbors uneasy
06:46 AM CDT on Tuesday, April 20, 2010
By ROY APPLETON / The Dallas Morning News rappleton@dallasnews.com
Sandra McFeeley tugged at a dead vine along Bizerte Avenue in Oak Cliff on Monday. The attorney, 67, has been celebrated for other cleanup efforts, but thinning thickets at Wynnewood Parkway Park got her arrested last month. She says she's been doing it for about three years.
"I met some neat people," she said of her nine hours at Lew Sterrett Justice Center. "I'd never been in a perp walk before. It was cool."
What's not so cool, the 67-year-old attorney said, was being accused of felony criminal mischief – for thinning thickets in a city park near her home.
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They do not like older people, forgetting that they, themselves, will one day be old.
Which, by the way, probably make the park a little safer. She should charge the city for the work based on, at least, prevailing government wages.
Oh well. At least it happened to a lawyer.
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington
Boy, I’m sure glad the government protected us from that crazy old bush trimmer.................
And God help you if you try.
Hard to tell if she was just sticking her nose where it did not belong, or if a realistic hazard existed that was being ignored by the high muckety mucks. The crime she’s charged with (this liberal likely won’t care that she can’t have guns now, never having wanted them before) seems to imply the state wants to replant the removed vegetation. This is a switch from when they want to bust you for overly high grass in your yard.
Well, little Mz. Suzie Q, that house you're spying from is an affront to the ecosystem. You should move out and let it go back to how nature intended it to be. I bet you also put out fire ant killer, pesticide on your roses, treated your un-ecofriendly house for termites, swat at flies, and squish cockroaches and spiders. Mother Nature is not pleased, Suzie, not pleased at all.
Liberals hate having the ‘dead wood’ trimmed.. That’s why they don’t want term limits.
The toxic left at work:
###”She was going out to this greenbelt area and trimming it as she saw fit,” said Joe Ries, a city park maintenance manager. “We asked her to stop,” he said, because she didn’t have a work agreement with the city.###
She was interfering with someone’s protected jack, and:
##She grabbed a piece of briar to demonstrate her work. Seconds later, Suzanne O’Brien called out from across the street: “You can’t do that.”
Asked why not, she said, “It’s a protected, wild area.” And briars, she said, are “part of the ecosystem. We have all kinds of wild creatures living here.”###
She interfered with some freak’s cult. By the way, I have seen the streets in Dallas swarmed with rats near these unkempt areas. Just drive them around 3 - 4 AM when there is little traffic, and you can see them skittering around all over. They were probably counted in the census.
Oh, I just know the type. At the request of a friend, I showed up to be interviewed by my city and their "Mission committee". We have an abandoned rail way that has been turned into a bike path. It extends through the back yards of several small towns up the north shore of Lake Michigan.
One dingbat resident, about 30, wanted our city to force the neighbors along the path to beautify and landscape their yards where the bike path crosses it because the path in the next town is "prettier". She wanted an ordinance passed. The residents in our town have minimum 5 acre lots with many residents owning up to 25-30 acres. The next town is comprised of 1/4 acre lots. Naturally, the backs of the 5 acre lots are wild. The 1/4 acre lots in the next town are more groomed because that is all the yard these people have. DUH!
Furthermore, this same 30-something wanted the City to force someone to open an ice cream shop in the Town Center. (For her personal convenience and her kids.) When lack of parking was cited as a deterrent, she said she thought everyone could bike to the store. When it was pointed out that our older residents don't bike, she thought they should just not come to the ice cream shop. Naturally, SHE wasn't going to front the money to open an ice cream shop (there are already several in the town north of us) and SHE didn't live along the bike path and was not willing to bear the work and the expense of landscaping and maintaining a lengthy piece of bike path for the pleasure of her and her kids.
Unfortunately, these people vote.
Better get ready for those courageous cops to kick down her door in a search for “unlicensed” weapons!
Next time use a flame thrower. Tell Suzanne that’s how Mother Nature would eventually do the job.
Or just live in Wyoming and tell all her kind to GFT.
Suzanne O’Brien needs to be dropped 5 miles into a true old growth forest and walk her butt out. She will notice in a real old growth forest that brambles and thickets are not common as they only grow along the edges and in the rare open areas. They are the first to die from fires and the last to grow in the shade.
What Suzanne O’Brien was complaining about is the removal of fuel for a forest fire. A fire that would likely destroy her home if it struck. But she knows so much about nature, I’m sure she understands that.
“What Suzanne O’Brien was complaining about is the removal of fuel for a forest fire. A fire that would likely destroy her home if it struck. But she knows so much about nature, I’m sure she understands that.”
Most of the homes in Oak Cliff are old, wooden frame houses. They are wonderfully comfortable, but go up like tinder in a fire. Less than a minute for them to be gouting fire from all the windows. I watched one burn on Bishop Avenue like that.
Damn her! /s
If you dig just under the surface of this story, you will probably find a union.
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers.”
Quote by: Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: “Atlas Shrugged”, Part II, Chapter 3
Bush’s fault!
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