Live Free or Die Here (cont.)
How can you tell if your town government has way too much fucking time on their hands.
They spend time even debating bullshit like this.
When yard sales are outlawed...
You mean to tell me that government officials were unable to prevent their subjects from engaging in legal activity on their own property? Jesus Christ, I would fucking hope so!
Like that's ever stopped politicians in this state from propagating this kind of bullshit before.
Here's more of the proposed bylaw from the Board of Selectman meeting minutes from March 1, 2005.
Yes, she was proposing mandatory yard sale permits. I'm surprised there was no mention of fingerprinting requirements or criminal background checks. I mean, what with it being "for the children" and all.
Also, from this 3/27/05 Boston Globe article:
How very optimistic of you, David - in a sad Massachusettsian kind of way. God, I can't wait to get out of this dump.
They spend time even debating bullshit like this.
PLYMOUTH - Georgina Chanatry got some sympathy from town meeting last night, but not the bylaw she wanted to limit yard sales.
By a vote of 73-40, town meeting representatives rejected a proposal to limit residents to two weekend yard sales a year.
When yard sales are outlawed...
Chanatry had proposed the two-a-year limit and other regulations in a bylaw aimed at controlling a neighbor whom she said had turned yard sales into a business.
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Chanatry proposed the yard sale bylaw after both private negotiations and town intervention with O'Donnell failed to stop the sales.
Zoning agent Richard Manfredi said Chanatry's complaint was the only one he got last year about yard sales.
You mean to tell me that government officials were unable to prevent their subjects from engaging in legal activity on their own property? Jesus Christ, I would fucking hope so!
Town meeting member Jeannette Jaynes said residents were entitled to more than two yard sales if they wanted, and that the proposed bylaw would be difficult and expensive to enforce.
Like that's ever stopped politicians in this state from propagating this kind of bullshit before.
Here's more of the proposed bylaw from the Board of Selectman meeting minutes from March 1, 2005.
§201-2: No person shall conduct a yard sale as defined above without first obtaining a permit for such purpose from the Department of Inspectional Services.
§201-3: Every applicant for any such permit shall set forth in an application to be provided by the Department of Inspectional Services his or her name, address, a general description of the articles to be sold, and the date or dates of such sale.
Yes, she was proposing mandatory yard sale permits. I'm surprised there was no mention of fingerprinting requirements or criminal background checks. I mean, what with it being "for the children" and all.
Also, from this 3/27/05 Boston Globe article:
"Ordinarily," Plymouth Selectman David Malaguti said of the proposed yard-sale measure, "we're reluctant to support articles that come from neighbor situations. But this one looks to be very well structured."
How very optimistic of you, David - in a sad Massachusettsian kind of way. God, I can't wait to get out of this dump.
