- I imagine people justify this by telling themselves 'rules are rules', but anyone who tries to destroy someone else's life because of grass is a loser.
- I wish it was acceptable to let grass grow taller. Makes me feel like I'm living closer to nature. (Also, mowers need to be electric or have catalytic converters. Such pointless polluters otherwise.)
I suppose statistically in over 300 million people you would find a ridiculous city run by just sufficiently ridiculous people who do something that ridiculous.
That's how we do it in most cities in WI. Except the city gives you a written warning by mail. If you don't do it, they just charge you some flat fee to have a city worker do it. It's expensive, but nowhere near that ludicrous.
Why do people care if grass is tall? lawns were invented by rich French nobility to show off how they could afford to have nothingness gardens instead of productive farm land.
Stay off their lawn, then? (Also, tall grass doesn’t really attract rodents. It just gives them a place to hide. Food in uncovered garbage is a much bigger issue.)
Because that's still their function. Just try growing food crops on your lawn! And "low status" neighbors makes a "low status" neighborhood makes you "low status".
Also prohibited: washing lines. What, you can't afford to inflate your carbon footprint with a dryer on this beautiful sunny day? What are you, poor?
Though its not crime where I live. But if it was, muncipal officer will give us two-three warning and later come with a team of worker, cut the grass and fine user with penalty + cost of cutting + additional panalty. Repeated violation will may lead sealing og property until the court hearing or a former apology.
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 55.6 ms ] thread- I imagine people justify this by telling themselves 'rules are rules', but anyone who tries to destroy someone else's life because of grass is a loser.
- I wish it was acceptable to let grass grow taller. Makes me feel like I'm living closer to nature. (Also, mowers need to be electric or have catalytic converters. Such pointless polluters otherwise.)
This is already clearly ridiculous.
> for an overgrown lawn.
Only in the land of the free.
I suppose statistically in over 300 million people you would find a ridiculous city run by just sufficiently ridiculous people who do something that ridiculous.
Even better, subsidize it; it's valuable habitat for all kinds of species threatened by human activity.
Not quite the same situation, but SCOTUS unanimously came down very strongly against "excessive fines".
Also prohibited: washing lines. What, you can't afford to inflate your carbon footprint with a dryer on this beautiful sunny day? What are you, poor?
Still it will never exceed $1k.