How come I risk getting a ticket for having grass “exceeding 10 inches” (I think that’s the East Peoria Yard Nazi standard, from when Diane had an office there), but the city/county/state can let weeds grow to two, three, sometimes four feet along the sides of railroad tracks, two lane county roads, and ditches? I was driving alongside a railroad track outside of Kewanee the other evening, and couldn’t see the tracks from 20 feet, because of the weeds growing up alongside them. I’m not sure I could have seen the train if one went by.
How come?
May 22nd, 2007 · 5 Comments
Society woes
5 responses so far ↓
1
Anon E. Mouse
// May 23, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Why do we need to mow ditches and railroad easements?
…and people wonder where all the quail and pheasants have gone to…
2
chef Kevin
// May 23, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Because they are too busy weedwacking my landscaping plants?
3
bjstone
// May 24, 2007 at 2:34 am
Kev – didn’t mean to open up old wounds. Sorry.
Mouse – whooshhhhh!…and the point goes right past you. Where did I say they need to cut it? The point is this: how can a city justify giving a homeowner a ticket when they can do whatever they want? That’s the point. I never said they need to cut their grass, instead I said they need to leave homeowners alone if they can’t get their own home in order. See?
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chef Kevin
// May 24, 2007 at 3:48 am
Actually, BJ, the joke is on them. That hollyhock came back this year with a vengence and it appears like it is going to shoot up a dozen or so flowering stems compared to the two it had last year. Talk about givin’ ol’ weedwacko the finger….
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bjstone
// May 24, 2007 at 5:05 am
Love it!
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