It's stories like this that relay get me angry.
"You painted your house, and I don't like it."

I've seen this so many times. I just don't understand why people need to do this. OK, ya, so it's a purple building..., so what. Get over it. No one is choosing the colours you paint your home with.

A few years back, the students of one of our local high schools did some fund raising so they could paint the grey school and add some colour so it wasn't so drab. They did it and it looked great. Good work on the student's part. but then people in town started saying, "schools aren't meant to be fun", and "I don't like the colour". In the end, the school board was made to come in and re-paint the school in grey again.

I've seen this happen with a lot of houses as well. There just doesn't seem to be any tolerance for personal expression in today's society and it just kills me and makes me want to scream.

People need to learn to leave people alone and let them do what they want to do in a free country!

OK, I'm done my rant, Thanks!

What officious fucks.

Even if the building is painted, it's still blocking their precious view.

Don't these assholes have anything better to do but whine and waste tax-payer paid time?

I have a neighbor that tried to sue us for cutting down bushes on our property, claiming that the bushes on OUR side of the line were there for HER privacy. Glad to say she didn't get any encouragement from the county, but still. Even the thought of potential damage caused by busy-body fucks pisses me off. She ostensibly waters her lawn in the middle of the night--sometimes even when it's raining--when I'm having a beer and a smoke on my porch, just so she can glare at me. Crazy fucks..

Now I'm done with my rant, too. :]

Another building falls victim to the Gathering Gay Storm that's sweeping the nation.

There's a house here in Los Angeles with a similar story.

The owner placed a statue in their front yard, and the neighbors went ape-shit. Signing petitions, threatening the owner, taking him to court etc.

So he did what any sane person would do, and turned his house into the tackiest thing in the city. He added an additional 18 of the same statues to his yard, fenced it with the tackiest shit around, and painted three of his cars in gradating rainbow colors.

At XMas time, he colors some of the statues black, and dresses them as negro-Santa Claus.

http://www.graham-mcneill.com/pic.php?id=39
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/look/youngwood-court-aka-house-of-davids-052592
http://laist.com/2007/12/16/my_favorite_hou.php

I felt pretty one sided but a few seconds in I realized I'd heard something about this before. This is about tax values, and in that part of the country simply having a certain view off your deck can put you out of your house because you won't be able to pay what the assessor says you should. Some of these people are literally staring down the barrel of tens of thousands of dollars in property taxes per year and they didn't all pay top dollar when they moved in (meaning they're not all super rich). I think they must all be in on it to save some money. It is a pretty sweet apartment/garage but because of where it is located it is going to be a huge cash drain because of the taxes.

Alt title = Clallam County Residents Have Too Much Time On Their Hands - Hobbies Needed!

This also can turn deadly here in Pennsylvania. Not 5 miles from my house there was an old man who had a junky front yard. Old cars, washing machines, farm equipment etc. He really liked the stuff and was a bit off. Well the busy-bodies came down on him hard and eventually the county got involved and passed a law specifically for him. When he resisted, the county sent bulldozers and trucks over. He first chained himself to some of the junk, and when that didn't work he went inside his house and shot himself to death.

It seems they are asking for lower taxes rather than asking for the house to be ripped down. If they want to dispute the taxes then go ahead. If these people think the house is ugly then fair enough it's their opinion and in this case I happen to agree with then.

The county charge these people property taxes, then there needs to be a way for people to dispute these taxes if they are unhappy with it. The only reason that you have tax-payer paid people wasting their time on this stuff is because the tax was created in the first place.

There is pleasure of looking out your window into a nicely built house rather than some lilac boxy monster.

That place looks like a cheap barbie doll house after it's been enlarged a few hundred times. If one of these people were to sell their house and their house was parked right next to that monster? I know that I definitely wouldn't buy it.

>> ^volumptuous:
http://www.graham-mcneill.com/pic.php?id=39
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/look/youngwood-court-aka-
house-of-davids-052592
http://laist.com/2007/12/16/my_favorite_hou.php


I honestly think that it doesn't look as bad as the lilac house in the video. All the white is kind of nice... but if the owner started painting his statues lilac that's a different story.

Community rights don't exist, because community duties don't exist.

>> ^Sniper007:
Community rights don't exist, because community duties don't exist.


You couldn't be farther from the truth.