March Sadness

[joseephuss]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ZZHGO5sXw&feature=player_embedded#at=12

[youtube]k0ZZHGO5sXw&feature=player_embedded#at=12[/youtube]

 

[Longboysfan]

So some weasle reports them to the town authorities. And the town collapses like a house of cards. Does not answer queries as to why they are removing them. Sends power trippin women to lie to home owner.

POW camps are next for them. How dare they want their first ammendment rights....

Although I do not think the hoop has been up 60 years.

 

[cowboyeric8]

So some weasle reports them to the town authorities. And the town collapses like a house of cards. Does not answer queries as to why they are removing them. Sends power trippin women to lie to home owner.

POW camps are next for them. How dare they want their first ammendment rights....

Although I do not think the hoop has been up 60 years.

Seriously, this is quite ridiculous. I would just keep putting one up. Its still his property, why can't he keep it?

The pole may have been there 60 years, but not the hoop.

 

[ShiningStar]

this is great, i love it, people just get ready to roll over just as she lied to him and than told him to go in the house, thats the power they are driving for.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

If it were me, I would make life for the guy who started all this a living hell to live in that community. He would never leave his house again without scrapping eggs off his car or pulling Limburger cheese from his muffler.

That was a blatant abuse of power and that blond ditz who was on a power trip needs to be fired.

 

[Hostile]

I thought he said 16 years. (Nope, he said 60 years.)

Can't help but wonder, what law is it against to have a basketball hoop like that?

I agree with Cajun, that guy would never stop getting cool guyed for this crap.

You plainly hear the woman say he can keep the pole too.

 

[joseephuss]

I thought he said 16 years.

Can't help but wonder, what law is it against to have a basketball hoop like that?

I agree with Cajun, that guy would never stop getting cool guyed for this crap.

You plainly hear the woman say he can keep the pole too.

The only thing I can think of is that the pole is located in the right of way. Even so, it was really nit picky to do what they did. Typically this kind of stuff is ignored/allowed unless there are complaints. Apparently there was someone in that neighborhood that made a big stink about it. There is always a jerk in the mix.

I could not believe that woman told him to get in his house. I don't know what kind of authority figure she thought she was.

 

[YosemiteSam]

If it were me, I would make life for the guy who started all this a living hell to live in that community. He would never leave his house again without scrapping eggs off his car or pulling Limburger cheese from his muffler.

That was a blatant abuse of power and that blond ditz who was on a power trip needs to be fired.

I got a Molotov cocktail with a match to go.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe the 5th Amendment should have prevented them from removing the basketball goal without a court order.

Specifically bolded:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

The government cannot legally just come in an cease your property. I don't recall that women or the officer that was with her presenting a court order allowing the removal of the basketball goal.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe the 5th Amendment should have prevented them from removing the basketball goal without a court order.

Specifically bolded:



The government cannot legally just come in an cease your property. I don't recall that women or the officer that was with her presenting a court order allowing the removal of the basketball goal.

I wonder if imminent domain is applicable here? I'm not sure that's why I'm asking.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I wonder if imminent domain is applicable here? I'm not sure that's why I'm asking.

Imminent domain requires a courts approval. They can't just take it.

btw, the last portion of the bolded was about Imminent domain

 

[Doomsday101]

State of Delaware must have a boat load of money to be spending tax payer money on removing basketball hoops.

 

[joseephuss]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe the 5th Amendment should have prevented them from removing the basketball goal without a court order.

Specifically bolded:



The government cannot legally just come in an cease your property. I don't recall that women or the officer that was with her presenting a court order allowing the removal of the basketball goal.

I believe the "right of way" is the property of the governing jurisdiction. Now being on the correct side of the letter of the law doesn't make it right. This thing stinks even if we are just talking about basketball goals.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I believe the "right of way" is the property of the governing jurisdiction. Now being on the correct side of the letter of the law doesn't make it right. This thing stinks even if we are just talking about basketball goals.

Well, the issue is what? People playing basketball in the streets? The pole itself was on private property. I don't think it is illegal to play basketball the street providing you give right of way to on coming cars and it definitely isn't illegal to have a basketball goal on your property.

Maybe they are declaring "air rights" above the street compared to where the actual hoop is and not necessarily the pole itself.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I got a Molotov cocktail with a match to go.

...I smoke my cigarette with style

 

[Doomsday]

Our tax dollars hard at work terrorizing families trying to play basketball in the front of their house In a Cul-De-Sac to top it off. Unreal!

I also love how they tell them they will be arrested if they dont shut up. Nice abuse of power, way to trample on their right to free speech.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Imminent domain requires a courts approval. They can't just take it.

btw, the last portion of the bolded was about Imminent domain

It would seem they would have had to have had a court order to come onto the property to take it.

As for the bolded part, I know, that's why I asked. I was just wondering if it was applied in this case.

 

[locked&loaded]

That was ridiculous..

Why cant we hit women again? kidding...

 

[YosemiteSam]

It would seem they would have had to have had a court order to come onto the property to take it.

As for the bolded part, I know, that's why I asked. I was just wondering if it was applied in this case.

Maybe they did, but I didn't see it and she wasn't offering it. (that I could see anyhow) It's like a warrant to search I believe. You have to have it on hand during the search. (or when confiscating)

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Well, the issue is what? People playing basketball in the streets? The pole itself was on private property. I don't think it is illegal to play basketball the street providing you give right of way to on coming cars and it definitely isn't illegal to have a basketball goal on your property.

Maybe they are declaring "air rights" above the street compared to where the actual hoop is and not necessarily the pole itself.

I'll bet when the dust settles the guy who complained had an issue with an ordinance and most likely it had to do with a mandatory setback. 50 feet or so. He wanted to build something and they wouldn't let him

So he gets his panties in a bunch and sees all of these basketball posts that in all probability are in some kind of violation of a setback law and demanded if he wasn't allowed to violate the law, no one else on his block should be.


This is just my opinion but I can easily see this as being the case.