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Illinois Town "Issue[s] 62 Tickets to an Elderly Couple for Having Lawn Chairs in Their Front Yard"
Reason ^ | March 22, 2022 | Eugene Volokh

Posted on 03/23/2022 9:48:09 AM PDT by billorites

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To: plain talk

If that is a photo of the home in question, I don’t really see a problem!


21 posted on 03/23/2022 10:09:22 AM PDT by V V Camp Enari 67-68 ( This clears up a lot of misconceptions.)
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To: billorites

Melrose Park is a nanny-state nightmare. It made it a crime for citizens to own a handgun within its borders.


22 posted on 03/23/2022 10:09:38 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Jamestown1630

Yes.

Here is a link with more details and photos. Sort of trashy but I’ve seen worse. One would think reasonable people could have resolved the thing in a more orderly fashion. Apparently not.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/f9/26/11533286/cozzi_v_melrose_park.pdf


23 posted on 03/23/2022 10:10:46 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: billorites

The mayor is obviously a raving libtard lunatic not unlike many others just like him in office and stepping on anybody they can 🤪

I read the entire story and he needs the crap beat out of him at the minimum


24 posted on 03/23/2022 10:11:04 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Boogieman

“Some might think this story is crazy, but Melrose Park is a mafia-connected town...”

Big time. But it had some great restaurants back in the day. Slicker Sam’s was great.


25 posted on 03/23/2022 10:11:39 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Tennessee Nana

Wasn’t Melrose Park a TV show?


26 posted on 03/23/2022 10:12:45 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“That’s where we are. If you speak up to your Masters, they will crush you.”

I noticed on the TV shows my wife watches all the heroes are government employees. The Mayor needs a base-a-balla bat upside the head.


27 posted on 03/23/2022 10:21:19 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: billorites

The liberal Democrats are not interested in helping these people because the Dems can’t have sex with the lawn chairs...oh wait....


28 posted on 03/23/2022 10:26:22 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

That’s it! The trigger.


29 posted on 03/23/2022 10:26:31 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: nonliberal
Unfortunately, no police issuing the tickets were severely injured in the process.

Police weren’t generally used for homeowners’ infractions in Illinois when I lived there (Winnebago and Ogle Counties)
30 posted on 03/23/2022 10:27:06 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“...life is very good without Facebook and that we would live very well without Facebook."-B.LeMaire)
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To: billorites

Just another of the countless everyday examples why the powers of government (any government) should be severely limited, and those who don’t stay strictly within those powers should be severely punished.


31 posted on 03/23/2022 10:28:31 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Stay to the right and be ready to fight.)
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To: dljordan
The Mayor needs a base-a-balla bat upside the head.

I think he needs a criminal complaint lodged against him under USC Title 18 Section 242.

32 posted on 03/23/2022 10:30:51 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: billorites

Some key with that power is in the pocket of a developer or a flipper.


33 posted on 03/23/2022 10:32:41 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: plain talk

I don’t see anything ‘trashy’ about lawn chairs outside a home, especially when they’re used routinely - and especially given Covid. And this does not look like a ritzy, wealthy area.

In addition to being downright nasty, the town leadership seems to have pretensions far above its reality...

Somebody hates these people for some reason beyond their lawn chairs.


34 posted on 03/23/2022 10:34:06 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Boogieman

Oy vey.


35 posted on 03/23/2022 10:35:26 AM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: dljordan

The Mayor needs a base-a-balla bat upside the head.


Leave the bat. Take the cannoli.


36 posted on 03/23/2022 10:38:46 AM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Boogieman

The outfit respects elders.

If I were this elder couple, and any of the outfit is still around, I would reach out to them.

It would get settled -—very very fast.


37 posted on 03/23/2022 10:42:12 AM PDT by crz
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To: crz

“The outfit respects elders.”

That’s what I would have thought. But it ain’t what it used to be.


38 posted on 03/23/2022 10:43:32 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: billorites

One useful fact that should please everyone on this board: the text run by Reason magazine and to which this post links is from a federal court opinion which, as you can see, comes down very hard on the head of this ridiculous mayor.

That opinion was written a federal judge Steven Seeger who is — gues what?! - a Donald’s Trump appointee.

And clearly a very good one.


39 posted on 03/23/2022 10:47:50 AM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
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To: billorites
This is Mayor Ronald Serpico. Oink oink


40 posted on 03/23/2022 10:49:14 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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