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Georgia city sued by fed-up residents over 'ridiculous' fines for chipped paint, driveway cracks

Posted by $ nickursis 5 years, 10 months ago to Government
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This is the poster child for government run amock, looting and is basically Atlas Shrugged on a 10,000 person town scale. This is absolutely the WORST example of crap government.
SOURCE URL: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/31/georgia-city-sued-by-fed-up-residents-over-ridiculous-fines-for-chipped-paint-driveway-cracks.html


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  • Posted by $ allosaur 5 years, 10 months ago
    How dare those serfs fail to know their places before the high offices of their entitled more than equal elite betters?
    The high and noble city fathers should counter-sue to establish sharecropping with iron fist quotas.
    Convert all those those shabby lawns into crop gardens, sayeth oih High Lord Mayor Dino Allosaurus Esquire.
    Erect pillories and whipping posts in the public square for those peons who'd get the least bit uppity.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
      Interesting dip into Medieval politics, Dino, but I would say that their draconian looting system is rather illegal and is clearly extortional. If you do not pay up you are subject to civil penalties and/or criminal liability. For a pile of wood or cracked driveway (all on personal property) I would say it is clearly a very poorly camouflaged ripoff.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 5 years, 10 months ago
        That "draconian looting system" struck me dino as so over the top for sheer tyrannical gall~this happening Year 2018 in the USA?-~it cried out for me to attempt satire.
        Me dino loves satire.
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      • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
        I guess I was also wondering why the woman didn't say "sue me" and take it to court. I am sure the "cracked driveway" ordinance would be proven illegal, and if no ordinance, then no charges. Someone needs to call their bluff.
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        • Posted by $ jdg 5 years, 9 months ago
          Because it's a losing strategy. The interest and penalties just continue to pile up on the unpaid citations until the city puts you in jail and sells your house to pay for it all. The system is designed so it can't be resisted.

          Unless and until we get a court willing to enforce the Eighth Amendment, or maybe some new constitutional protections with specific wording, the only defense against this stuff is going to be to run for city council and change it yourself.
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    • Posted by Herb7734 5 years, 9 months ago
      That's what you get when you complain too powerfully to politicians. When certain ones have the power, they don't hesitate to use it.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 5 years, 9 months ago
        "Don you know who I am? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"
        I once heard a pompous fat cat shout that into someone's face in real life during the 70s.
        Since then I've heard villains shout that at people in movies. .
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        • Posted by Herb7734 5 years, 9 months ago
          I had a very bold friend who lost his mind when confronted by just one too many "Do you know who I am" politicians. He said, " Yes, I know who you are, so get back down in the muck of the sty, they'll be giving out the slop in another hour or so" or words to that effect. It was the first time I ever saw a guy screw himself out of any political consideration, and a politician melt down into a blubbering piece of rotten meat.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 10 months ago
    Doraville facts:
    voted for Hitlery for POTUS in 2016
    motto is “Diversity, Vitality, Community"
    elected a transgender person to the city council in 2017 (who won the office over a lesbian who was quoted “I think it says a lot about Doraville.”) "She" joins two LGBT city council members.
    More than half the population are immigrants.
    Doraville's downtown was destroyed and replaced by the MARTA transit station in 1992.
    GM closed it's Doraville auto assembly plant in 2008.

    Doraville's claim to fame is the 1974 country rock hit Doraville
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    • Posted by mccannon01 5 years, 10 months ago
      Well, freedomforall, it seems these little snippets indicate the people of Doraville, like the people of Venezuela, got what they voted (wished) for. It would be interesting to visit this again in 5 or 10 years to see if they vote for more of the same to fix the problems they are having or opt for something different.
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      • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 10 months ago
        Unfortunately, most big cities (and the bedroom communities around them, like Doraville) are dominated by people who have little understanding of the process that creates the high standard of living they have inherited. They will likely continue to squander it and to enslave those who produce it until the producers learn the lesson that it took so long for Hank and Dagny to learn. We need a real Gulch more than ever.
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        • Posted by mccannon01 5 years, 9 months ago
          "They will likely continue to squander it and to enslave those who produce it..." true words, freedomforall. I don't know how the lady with the cracked driveway voted, but I hope she is picking up on the lessons learned by Dagny and Hank. That is, as a property owner she is nothing more than a cash cow to be milked dry by the socialists/communists voted in and now running Doraville. When she runs out of wealth her property will be seized and she can join the ranks of the beggar collective. "Atlas Shrugged" is coming alive.
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      • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
        Well, at least they have gotten to the point they are suing the a holes....maybe something good would come of it...
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        • Posted by mccannon01 5 years, 9 months ago
          I hope you are right, nickursis. However, I suspect the "a holes" of Doraville will find ways to remain in office and find new creative ways to slap around the citizenry to achieve their collective goals. Look what's going on with Dinesh D'Sousa where he is pardoned by President Trump and yet the communists in the Peoples Republic of NY will stop at nothing to hammer him down again. The fight is getting more nasty.
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    • Posted by exceller 5 years, 10 months ago
      An unfortunate conglomeration of the left.

      Wonder what made them descend on this Georgia town?
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      • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 10 months ago
        The mid-town area of Atlanta (north of the old "downtown") and Emory Univ area became very expensive due to demand by LGBT's and other (mostly younger) white collar workers who liked city life in spite of the cost and congestion (and the high taxes and poor services that drove many sane people to leave the city. Atlanta has been "managed" like a 3rd world dictatorship since the 70's, imo. Pull has awarded contracts to bro's of the mayors for 40 years. Very similar to DC, and Detroit in that respect.) Those LGBT's who chose not to spend as much on housing but still wanted to be relatively close to the bars and restaurants that welcomed them started moving to Doraville because it was more affordable and still a relatively short drive. Although the homes were not as well built, at least they were SF dwellings with yards. That forced out most of the longer term blue collar residents. At least that is how I see it, having some familiarity with the area in the 70's and 90's.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 10 months ago
    Looks like a case of those (leftists) who run the city being more concerned with physical appearance than the rights of people who have a lifestyle that is different from their own.
    Hypocrites!
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
      Actually, it is looting: "About 25 percent of Doraville’s operating budget is reliant on fees and fines, according to IJ, a nonprofit law firm. From August 2016 to August 2017, it raked in about $3.8 million in fines, according to IJ's lawsuit. ". Any excuse for money. But read the article and you will get sick at the crap they pulled, and the fact the woman was fined $100 and sentenced to 6 months Criminal Probation for cracks in her driveway. This is worse than any sitcom....
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      • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
        I am also willing to bet they have one heck of a speed trap going there, too.....
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        • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 10 months ago
          The AJC newspaper noted in a recent story that many motorists go out of their way to avoid driving through Doraville.
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          • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
            Hmmm.. I wonder how long it would take to get the Feds in that deal. Although Trump may say that it is only free enterprise....
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            • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 10 months ago
              That power is not expressed in the constitution.
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              • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
                And that stops them how often? Respect for the Constitution ( or lack there of) is one of the most common root causes of the abuses we suffer, IMHO...
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                • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 10 months ago
                  I agree. I would love to get a majority of others to understand that, and to understand the reasons why that is the best way, too.
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                  • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
                    Can you please expand on the last bit of that? what reasons could someone possibly miss here? Forgive me, I found a video on YT from a group that just reports on facts of weather, and the facts are really disturbing,as they indicate things are heading the opposite way of the global agenda, which means they are missing more than just why they should be watching the constitution get shredded.....
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                    • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 10 months ago
                      As you know, public education has been teaching the irrational virtues of socialism, and the false failings of the free markets for more than 30 years. Higher education institutes are filled with socialists who continue that counter-productive brainwashing, and purposely assassinate the bedrock principles of individual liberty, family, and free markets. When the reputed sages of the education industry hide the truth and no one teaches rational thinking, the result is 2 generations who are deluded into believing that socialist government is the solution to the problems purposely created by socialist government.
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                      • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
                        Exactly, schools teach that because they live it and believe it, knowing nothing else. My biggest problem with the education system, you should have to have had another career before you can be a teacher, maybe retired military.
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                        • Posted by Solver 5 years, 10 months ago
                          It’s like living in a monastery all your life and asking your son what he wants to be when he grows up and he says, a “monk” and you’re so proud because you said the same thing to your father.
                          Praise be the all knowing!
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 5 years, 9 months ago
    And I thought HOAs could be bad...this is an HOA on steroids.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 9 months ago
      Oh, no, way beyond that, HOA's have some brakes on them, these guys sound like they invent offenses for money, HOAs usually have to prove you violated some existing rule, it is a matter of degree. Some HOAs are notorious, but I have not heard of one that applies to a whole town..
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  • Posted by $ mpgmr 5 years, 9 months ago
    According to City-Data, Doraville, GA voted 79% for Clinton in 2016. They are getting what they voted for. No sympathy here. Doubt they'll learn though. Mental disorders are notoriously difficult to cure.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 5 years, 9 months ago
    Sounds like a small vocal group got sick of all their neighbors allowing their property to look like hell - but if you are in the extreme minority for that, sell your own house and go move to a geezerville HOA, Sun City, etc. Some people prefer to toss their old toilets in the yard and call it landscape art.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 9 months ago
      Well, I am not so sure firewood not stacked neatly or cracks in the driveway fall into the category of "hell".
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      • Posted by $ jdg 5 years, 9 months ago
        The real issue here is not the fact that a town has laws about aesthetic trivia (though I would love it if that were banned at some level in a constitution or similar document). The real issue is that the town government is getting most of its revenue from fines. Any local government fitting that description is predatory and needs to be overthrown.
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      • Posted by scojohnson 5 years, 9 months ago
        It doesn't say that shew as singled out, only that she's the one to take her case to the media.

        In my opinion, shady stuff happens in every local government, people are usually ambivalent and disengaged - so they end up with a ridiculously left-leaning government in most cases.

        We have a horrible bond measure on the ballot here tomorrow, "Measure E" - $350 million in borrowing for a shit-box local (crappy) community college, dumped on the homeowners of a narrow (slim) pool of the populace it serves - specifically a couple of areas with very high home values (and would rarely send their own kids to that college). The "purpose" is a new science building - but... you could build a 70,000 person football stadium AFTER razing a couple of city blocks and buying real estate in an urban area to build it on for $350 million. If it sounds excessive, it is, it also includes "operating expenses" such as landscaping for about 20-30 years, financing some computers for 50 years, and buried in "Appendix B, Subpart 32" - cash to build a new 4 year campus on some "donated land" owned by a politically dominant regional developer. The sponsors and donors are unions, developers, architects, etc.. It's as mobbed-up as it gets.
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        • Posted by $ 5 years, 9 months ago
          Indeed, that is pure feeding at the public trough, and everyone connected to it, will make out on it, a very small number screwing a vary large one. Vote NO. I always vote no on every measure now, as they still get some through, but more people are beginning to see the pattern.
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