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Never heard of police coming for that! Around here you can probably scream for your life and they wouldn't come!
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05-22-2008 08:30 PM
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We've never gotten anything from the city but the old biddies that walk the neighborhoods for the HOA about drive me up the wall. They send letters once a week threatening to fine you if you don't cut your grass, pick your weeds... blah blah blah... and I don't mean 4 inch grass here, I'm talking if it's even an eighth of an inch taller than they think it should be they are sending those letters. It is so annoying!
Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
An 'eye for an eye' leaves the whole world blind. -Mahatma Gandhi
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i wish they'd fine people for that around here. my next door neighbors (for the next 8 days, we are moving) NEVER cuts their grass. it is about up to my knees now but give it another month and it'll be up to my shoulders. they have a big dog that craps all over the back yard and they never clean it up so of course it smells and the flies come over here. and then there is the trash..........all over the yard. next is their kids.........5 of them always ringing my door bell wanting to play with my kids, or playing in the back of my husband's truck, or getting in my mail box, or darting across my driveway when i'm backing out of the garage. i'm SO happy to be getting the hell out of here.
sorry about your situation though, i didn't mean to ramble so much in your post. it just triggered a nerve about my neigbors.
There is always someone bigger and badder than you!
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We live in a small town with a city council that thinks they own us. The police actually has a yard stick and measures the grass. Oh yes he does. We have to keep clean yards and are not allowed to have a vehicle out of regestriation. We had a suburban that needed some work. We thought we would eventually fix it up for our son. The body was in excellant shape. We kept it mowed around and under it. The city forced us to get rid of it. We have had several neighbors in the same shape. One neighbor had some 50 gallon oil drums. He collects aluminum and copper, etc for extra money that he needs. Kept it neatly in the drums and hauled them off regularly. He was told to get rid of the drums. And also that he was regularly selling from his property. That meant he was running a business from a private zoned area and if he didn't quit, he'd be fined. Our neighbors house burned down. After 3 weeks, they were told they would be fined $500 PER DAY if they didn't get it cleaned up. I could go on and on. There is nothing we can do.
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Smile! Tell em you can't afford the gas! Go to court and plead gas prices. Judge wil have to laugh and throw it out!
Better yet since gas is so high I have a few goats that would love some fresh grass. I will loan them out.The neighbors ask about them all the time.
I am sure the person who called will love the sound of a goat baa at two in the morning..lmao
Really?Thats probably not the smartest thing you have done today...HUH?
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You must live a couple of houses down from me. My next door neighbor reports me to code enforcement on the weekend if she feels my grass is too long. The kicker is that my lawn guy comes at 9:00 on MONDAY morning. Code enforcement will come by on Monday when the lawn guy is here & they shoot the breeze for a minute or two and then he leaves. In the City of Orlando they will fine you and mow your grass for about $ 500.00 if it is over 18" tall. Mine has never been over 3 or 4" since I have lived here (over 20 years).
Glad you didn't get a fine. And for those that suggest going to court - you actually would end up in front of the code enforcement board and the county/city commission long before it would go to court. Although I do love the "gas is to expensive" defense. I would however call the code enforcement officer and explain that gas is too high and " I am just too old" to worry about the grass for at least a few more inches.
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Originally Posted by
JKATHERINE
You guys get fined for long grass?? WTH? Do towns just need another way to eeek money out of people? We can have our grass as long as we like it. In fact, the people that lived here before us let the grass in the field grow out so it could be cut for hay later.
I don't live in a town, but i know here in Iowa there are alot of cities that do it. But i think it has to be pretty tall before they step in. Or at least i thought it did.
How tall was/is yours? Do you have a rider or walk behind. I know with my neck just driving our zero turn gets to me. Our lawn (in the country) is bumpy.
My "adopted" brother. Gone but not forgotten. 8/23/09
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It's cut now. It's not even like we have a large front yard. The back yard isn't visible. The grass wasn't that tall but we had about 12 of those weed things that grow tall that when you blow on them they fluff apart. I think they may be called dandy lions. Anyway I talked to one of the neighbors and he said there is a neighbor one street over who drives around checking everyone's yard. Well it was a first for us.
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