Tools are neither “good” or “evil”.
It’s all in how a person puts them to use.
Sounds like a VERY good thing for the taxpayers of Riverhead.
I like the comment someone left on the article - they’ll never do that in California, too many backyard sheds with illegal aliens.
Zoning laws have become the worst form of tyranny in the United States. They have no statute of limitations, you have to prove that you are innocent, and the fines can be astronomical, mounting into the hundreds of thousands while you search for documentation to show that your addition, fence, porch, car port or pool was their before they passed that last stupid zoning law.
Most zoning laws follow a format pushed by the central planning leftists that starts with something like the following: Everything that is not allowed in this code is forbidden.
This is exactly opposite the whole philosophy of western law, which is that everything that is not forbidden is allowed.
go to back yard... using chalk, paint or whatever, draw an outline of human hand flipping the bird on trhe ground or on pool cover.
I think its funny that people attack google for having the eyes but are apparently OK with government overstepping their authority in the first place.
Don’t blame big brother for seeing, blame big brother for acting.
Two words — camo netting.
Knowing the suburban New York City region the way I do, I think this really has nothing to do with pools that have been installed without "proper permits" or anything like that. I believe the real motivation here is that this municipal government is using an inexpensive (but effective) to identify homes with pools in the backyards to increase the assessed value of the property for the purpose of computing property taxes.
Sounds like there’s a marked for camouflage nets here.
Oh, of course
Riverhead’s chief building inspector Leroy Barnes Jr. said the unpermitted pools were a safety concern. He said that without the required inspections there was no way to know whether the pools’ plumbing
, electrical work and fencing met state and local regulations.
“Pool safety has always been my concern,” Barnes said.
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Horseapples! The real concern is to collect revenue for the government. How did we manage to survive without thousands of bureaucrats overseeing everything we do and collecting taxes on every move we make?