[Deo volente]

They needed a robot to let them know the house was on fire? I also see no sign of an overgrown lawn. This photo is purportedly of today's incident.

[faucetman]

I knew a family that lived in the city of Ithaca who didn’t cut their grass because the grass would feel pain (it’s a living thing) and they might also kill bugs within the grass as collateral damage.

No joke.

[fruser1]

The process is the punishment.

[TheDon]

Faulty public policy.

[I want the USA back]

What did they used to say? “A man’s home is his castle.”

[qwerty1234]

Summary: the government ending up killing someone who didn’t want to mow his lawn.

[rolling_stone]

Their main goal Wednesday was to get the man in compliance with the local homeowners association.

are they serious? they city has no authority to enforce homeowners association rules, possibly city code but not hoa rules. crazy lets see the rest of the story.

city of austin ordinance
grass cannot be in excess of 12 inches
4ft is imminent danger
http://www.austintexas.gov/department/common-austin-code-violations

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds like a suicide-by-cop.

[faucetman]

I side with the dead guy.

There are cities all around this country where people openly defecate, urinate, vomit, have sex of all kinds, sell and use drugs in the open for everyone to see.

It isn’t even their residence, they have no right to be there. They are just homeless (worthless) squatters.

Nobody (from the government) shoots them!

[Sequoyah101]

So Austin just skips the reeducation camp and goes straight to killing anyone who does not comply.

Liberty is dead.

[ptsal]

PING HOA

[4yearlurker]

This story reads like this guys neighbor(s) was a little rat connected with the local authorities and they were abusing their power. It probably was stewing for awhile. So they murdered this dude because they didn't like the length of his grass.

[central_va]

Not Florida?

[pierrem15]

They’ll kill an American to mow a lawn, but hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants, drug smugglers, pimps and their victims cross every month and they won’t do squat. In fact they help them move in.

[al_c]

The headline seems like an attempt to put blame on the City. Wow.

[dragnet2]

Anyway, I’m sure the neighbors are all happy now, and instead of an unsightly lawn, they now have a smoking burned out crater in the HOA.

[gnarledmaw]

"The robot helped officers determine that a fire had been started in the home..."

Which one of these guys had training originating from the Clinton era FBI? They are getting lazy, everyone knows that before committing suicide by burning down your "compound" you first have to declare yourself a white supremacist.

[Rebelbase]

[dware]

People do not own their own homes. They are merely caretakers who pay for the privilege of caring for property for the government. Home ownership is a myth.