Posted on 05/28/2011 11:29:56 AM PDT by barmag25
Every two to three years, Eddie Sales trims and prunes the crape myrtles at his church, Albemarle Road Presbyterian Church.
But this year, the city of Charlotte cited the church for improperly pruning its trees.
"We always keep our trees trimmed back because you don't want to worry about them hanging down in the way," said Sales, a church member.
The church was fined $100 per branch cut for excessive pruning, bringing the violation to $4,000.
"I just couldn't believe it when I heard about it," Sales said. "We trim our trees back every three years all over our property, and this is the first time we have been fined."
Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/05/28/2333197/church-fined-for-improper-tree.html#ixzz1Nfkq048B
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotteobserver.com ...
LOL I believe in earning one’s salary, and some of these types spend all their time destroying what little natural beauty we have. I am not against environmental issues, and preserving things, but I am against idiots who have no idea what they are doing.
Even the Indians had the common sense to use controlled burns, to keep the forests from being destroyed by wildfires. Cutting trees in a heavy forest area, and throwing them in the river, to keep children from playing in the water is just cruel...not conservation.
That money ends up fueling the flames of ‘global warming’, and causes the left can use to elect the likes of Obama. Not a good use of our natural resources. There are many good government employees in our park systems, but some are just there to cause trouble.
LOL, that is rich, LOL, , I have read several books about DB, and live in the area of VA he hunted in on the way to Kentucky. But there were still beavers all over. The old stories say Ohio was a beaver swamp.
I don’t live in Ohio, Kentucky or Virginia.
Yes and the western mountain men were trapping rabbits. For a living.
But every year, the things branch out and bloom like crazy. Amazing plants!
That's exactly why the roads in Charlotte are littered with huge oak limbs after these storms. We've had our neighborhood roads blocked by fallen trees almost weekly this spring. The trees should have been pruned but everyone fears the Tree Nazis.
Crape Myrtles thrive when pruned mercilessly. They’re great trees.
Actually, in Charlotte they audit how many trees you have per square foot of parking area. There is a minimum square footage of tree coverage for every foot of parking space.
Whose trees are they?
We cut ours down to about a foot. By the end of summer they are at least 6 feet tall. You can not kill these things unless up pull the root ball out with a tractor.
They probably hired some seasonal college intern into code enforcement, you know the ‘environmental activist’ type. The type that probably grew up in the city and never cut a lawn, let alone trimmed a branch.
Summer’s off during college I worked as an intern to a Town Engineer and in an adjacent office was the building inspectors and code enforcement (one fulltime). Note that townships often add seasonal people to do code enforcement. Usually, the seasonal code enforcement people are sent on a jihad against temporary signage, portable signage, banners…folding lawns signs and such. You know, blight related to productivity and such. Well, one seasonal guy was particularly zealous and rolled into a Village within the town, it’s own jurisdiction within the Township, wrote fines for the length of the Village in a single day. He was unswayed by the protests of the Villager, with all of 16 hours (maybe) of experience he was confident in his authority to get the job done.
To make a long story short, there was a meeting the very next day, after which he didn‘t so much as drive through that Village for the rest of the season.
You’d be suprised the turnabout that results when you list the code enforcement officer’s name: ___________ ?
...just say’in.
Listen up brothers and sisters, come hear my desperate tale
I speak of our friends of nature, trapped in the dirt like a jail
Vegetables live in oppression, served on our tables each night
This killing of veggies is madness, I say we take up the fight
Salads are only for murderers, cole slaw's a fascist regime Don't think that they don't have feelings, just cause a radish can't scream
Chorus:
I've heard the screams of the vegetables(Scream... scream... scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (Having their insides revealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy..(Burning off calories)
How do you think that feels? (That it hurts really bad)
Carrot juice constitutes murder..(And that's a real crime)
greenhouses prisons for slaves (Let my vegetables go!)
It's time to stop all this gardening..(It's dirty as hell)
Let's call a spade a spade. (is a spade is a spade is a)
I saw a man eating celery, so I beat him black and blue
If he ever touches a sprout again, I'll bite him clean in two
I'm a political prisoner, trapped in a windowless cage
‘Cause I stopped the slaughter of turnips, by killing five men in a rage
I told the judge when he sentenced me, “This is my finest hour!
I'd kill those farmers again, just to save one more cauliflower!”
CHORUS
How low as people do we dare to stoop?
Making young broccolis bleed in the soup
Untie your beans! Uncage your tomatoes!
Let potted plants free! Don't mash that potato!! Whoa!... Whoa!... Whoa!...
I've heard the screams of the vegetables(Scream... scream... scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (Into the stirfryer sealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy..(You fat gourmet slob)
How do you think that feels? (Leave them out in the field)
Carrot juice constitutes murder..(V-8’s genocide)
greenhouses prisons for slaves (yes, your composts are graves)
It's time to stop all this gardening..(Take Up macrame)
Let's call a spade a spade. (is a spade is a spade is a)
Why is there a "free permit" which brings a yard nazi to instruct you on the pluperfect way to trim your tree? Do they get kickbacks for recommending aborists?
They say you cut it wrong so they fine you and demand you kill the tree and replace it?
What'll it cost? $10-$20 plus labor, haul away, etc? Of course, there will have to be permitting and inspections of the remove and replacement too, right? More revenue opportunities!
The solution is obviously more government in the make of progress.
“trapping rabbits” LOL, it’s obvious you know little about Western Mtn men...lol
That statement was saying you did not know what you were talking about, must have went over your head.
In former days women and children handled the rabbits, and men hunted larger game, at least that’s how it was handled in my family. My grandmother was an excellent shot, and with ten children...rabbit stew was on the menu, back in those days.
Some men hunted rabbits, but mostly young boys, and squirrels, ground hogs...etc. They did live off the land 50-100 yrs ago, but I know men in these mtns, who still do.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/boone/chapt3/
Here is a free three chapters of Daniel Boone’s own words, which describe (to his favor) what happened, and verify (if you read all of chapter three) what I said. His wife only returned to her fathers house in NC, because Boone had already moved her from their own here in Yadkin Valley.
The wife was right, and there is also another diary of Boone’s, that isn’t on internet....or maybe you can find it.After he describes some of the horror, it is obvious that he should have left his family here, and explored by himself.
I’m not the one who doesn’t know what they are talking about. Evidently, you don’t know about the other avenues down river from PA Fort, flowing into Mississippi, and the flatboats...research might help you get educated instead of condemning others, while fearing the truth. Dig deeper.
Agreed, also new generations start from a new base and don’t even know what freedoms existed in the previous generations. The young today think they are free and have no clue how .gov controls their lives. The PC/Enviro movement was designed to do exactly this. I can see kids thinking in favor of the municipality because they have been brainwashed into worshiping trees. Green is the new RED, no doubt about it. FUBO.
Hey Orgy,
Daniel Boone wore a coon skin cap. Does that make him a “Skin Head?”
I find this very funny, you started out bitching about beavers and that there were turning them loose in places they had never been. And I tell you that they, the beavers were all over the country. Beaver was the main fur that the mountain men were after. I tell you they were catching rabbits as a joke and you still did not get the fact that I was saying you were a little on the dense side. Been fun, oh, and I made straight A’s in history when I was going to college. I grew up on a farm in the southwestern hills of Virginia hunting and eating rabbits and other tasty animals.
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