Texas Town Enforces ‘ZERO Tolerance’ Policy on Grass Length Requirements

[DamianTV]

There should be a Law against that. Oh wait, there already is. Well there should be a Law against the opposite version of that. And then there was Law. The result of people not being careful of either what they are wishing for or who they are making those wishes to.

 

[Zippyjuan]

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/abilene-grass-length/



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No such thing as Jail Time for not mowing your lawn? Bullshit. It will cost you more to defend yourself. But is this really about Grass, or is it about Private Property, or is it about OBEDIENCE?

Welcome to Catch 22 in real life.

Sounds like the place is run by a retired Marine Drill Sargeant. "Your hair is one milimeter too long soldier! Go see the barber and get that fixed and be back here in five minutes for some more pushups followed by a run around the base!"

 

[euphemia]

It is really about allowing a few people to set the standard for everyone else. This is the reason we have stayed in our lower income neighborhood. We can have whatever kind of fence we want. We don't need a permit to put up a storage building or swing set in our back yard.

People in our neighborhood work too hard to be worried about perfect lawns. We do the best we can. Criticizing neighbors' yards is what rich people do.

#firstworldproblems

 

[jbauer]

Had to negrep you. Sorry you're a good poster.

Its NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUISNESS as to what height I prefer to keep my lawn. Worse, you suggest the keystone cops should come use guns to force compliance to a law that "you" find acceptable. I'm quite sure that your neighbor wouldn't care if you chose to mow their lawn for them. On top of that unmowed grass is not a health concern unless you count your rise in blood pressure. Mosquitos/bugs need moisture. Rats & other pests are only going to take up if there is an ample food supply. Something that wouldn't exist in an empty unused lot.

ANd this is news because ..... ? For as long as I have been alive, communities have fined people for not maintaining their grass. And for as long as I have been alive, people who do not pay their fines get picked up and put in jail.

Don't like it? Live somewhere else. (hopefully somewhere without internet access Damien.)

Personally, I prefer not to live in a community where the vermin and mosquitos are free to set up shop in the abandoned property next door. It's a bt of a health issue. When I bought my home I knew there were local regulations about keeping my grass cut. If I wanted to live in a place where nobody cared, I would have moved somewhere more rural.

Again, the real shame is that some people are content to live like animals, which in turn enables the government to pass more and more laws like this. If people would be at all responsible for themselves and assume some responsibility for their decisions, then we wouldn't need any government at all.

Instead, we get people who are too lazy to even mow their lawns, turning their property into breeding grounds for rats, mice, mosquitoes and a myriad of other pests. .... and the rest of us are supposed to just tolerate it?

Yeah, good luck winning elections.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Real Estate - Government Love relationship.... sleazy relationship of making money.

Both want as high of property values to profit. Keep those county tax assessments high

 

[angelatc]

No they don't.You could have some arguments based on aesthetics but claiming that uncut grass is health hazard is beyond a stretch.By your reason let the government mandate that all body hair must be properly maintained because unmaintained body hair may lead to a health hazard.

BUllshit. Mice and mosquitos live in uncut grass. I know that's probably a surprise to the scientifically challenged community that's developed around here, but the reason that neighborhoods started insisting that people cut their grass actually has less to do with aesthetics than it does with vermin.

And you idiots can neg rep me all you want, but I am and always have been fine with small local government. Getting pissy because the city won't let landlords who live 2400 miles away ignore their property won't win us any elections.

Not that you guys care about actually winning elections.....

 

[AuH20]

BUllshit. Mice and mosquitos live in uncut grass. I know that's probably a surprise to the scientifically challenged community that's developed around here, but the reason that neighborhoods started insisting that people cut their grass actually has less to do with aesthetics than it does with vermin.

And you idiots can neg rep me all you want, but I am and always have been fine with small local government. Getting pissy because the city won't let landlords who live 2400 miles away ignore their property won't win us any elections.

Not that you guys care about actually winning elections.....

Mosquitoes need a damp environment as well as stagnant pools of water to breed. Mice need a food source. So just keeping your grass long won't necessarily lead to a propagation.

 

[jbauer]

So you neg-repped me for neg repping you. Are we allowed to post university studies as scientific evidence? Or are we all to dumb for that? Conversely my Brother-in-law is the state entomologist for the state of WV. Would you like to talk to him?

http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/house.htm

From the article: Mosquitoes do not breed in tall grass as many people have been led to believe.

Edit: Oh, and the powers that be wont let me negrep you again so if someone else could do so that would be great.

BUllshit. Mice and mosquitos live in uncut grass. I know that's probably a surprise to the scientifically challenged community that's developed around here, but the reason that neighborhoods started insisting that people cut their grass actually has less to do with aesthetics than it does with vermin.

And you idiots can neg rep me all you want, but I am and always have been fine with small local government. Getting pissy because the city won't let landlords who live 2400 miles away ignore their property won't win us any elections.

Not that you guys care about actually winning elections.....

 

[otherone]

BUllshit. Mice and mosquitos live in uncut grass..

Freedom has mosquitoes.

 

[otherone]

Mosquitoes need a damp environment as well as stagnant pools of water to breed. Mice need a food source. So just keeping your grass long won't necessarily lead to a propagation.

I have a lot of customers here in the northeast that, while their lawns are immaculate, fail to regularly drain children's toys, buckets, or any outside vessels of standing water, leading to mosquito spikes. We have had heavy rainfall here, it's tough to keep up with, perhaps town councils can create laws and hire cops to police standing water and shoot dogs that intervene.

 

[otherone]

Mosquitoes need a damp environment as well as stagnant pools of water to breed. Mice need a food source. So just keeping your grass long won't necessarily lead to a propagation.

Mice need ground cover. There is no difference to them between pachysandra or well-manicured/mulched landscaping and overgrown lots.

 

[angelatc]

So you neg-repped me for neg repping you. Are we allowed to post university studies as scientific evidence? Or are we all to dumb for that? Conversely my Brother-in-law is the state entomologist for the state of WV. Would you like to talk to him?

http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/house.htm

From the article: Mosquitoes do not breed in tall grass as many people have been led to believe.

Edit: Oh, and the powers that be wont let me negrep you again so if someone else could do so that would be great.

If you want to live in the city, then you can't act like a dumbass. Did I say mosquitos bred in the long grass? No, I didn't. You know why I didn't say that? Because mosquitos don't breed in the grass, moron. But the adults do indeed hide there during the day. If you don't believe me, go cut your nasty long ass grass and you will absolutely see a drop in the mosquito population.

And you will also see less mice, snakes and other creatures around your house too.

Gotta tell you, these days it gives me pleasure to know that my local government pisses people like you off when they ticket them for not taking care of their property. If you want to live in a dump, go live in the country where nobody cares. If you want to live in the city, stop whining about having to cut the damned grass.

 

[angelatc]

Mosquitoes need a damp environment as well as stagnant pools of water to breed. Mice need a food source. So just keeping your grass long won't necessarily lead to a propagation.

Sigh. Even you?

Again - at no point did I say that mosquitos bred in the tall grass.

 

[angelatc]

Mice need ground cover. There is no difference to them between pachysandra or well-manicured/mulched landscaping and overgrown lots.

Now you guys are not even trying to be factual. You're just making stuff up.

 

[Keith and stuff]

http://www.ktxs.com/news/people-in-...to-face-larger-fines-starting-monday/21079994

Letting your grass grow above a foot high is a crime in Abilene it’s defined by city regulations as a public nuisance, a Class C misdemeanor, and it’s punishable by up to a $500 fine.

City code enforcement officers said overgrown lawns are the number one complaint they get and it costs taxpayers more than $20,000 every year.

I could understand something like 2 feet on non-farmland/wild fields, especially if the house was on a main road or something, with poisonous snakes and such in Texas. Where I live, a near-by yard recently had grass that was over 2 feet. It stared out normal but by the time the bank took the house, it looked like a wild field.

Still, I didn't call the police. What I did do was not walk in that grass. Heck, I didn't own the land anyway so it was pretty easy to not go in the grass.

Anyone who is injured or on vacation and is temporarily unable to treat their grass or weeds can call code enforcement and let them know.

That's right. If you get injured or take a vacation, make sure to let the government know!

 

[otherone]

Now you guys are not even trying to be factual. You're just making stuff up.

I've been an exterminator for 26 years. Tall grass provides cover against predators. So does shrubs. And debris. Any ground cover. Frankly, if your concern is vermin, and vermin prefers "tall grass", you should be happy your neighbor provides harborage, as, according to your logic, the vermin won't dare step in your well-maintained yard.

 

[angelatc]

I've been an exterminator for 26 years. Tall grass provides cover against predators. So does shrubs. And debris. Any ground cover. Frankly, if your concern is vermin, and vermin prefers "tall grass", you should be happy your neighbor provides harborage, as, according to your logic, the vermin won't dare step in your well-maintained yard.

So you are here telling me that a habitat that provides cover against predators somehow won't increase the population of neighborhood vermin. SMFH.

I'd rather keep the little bastards out in the country where they belong. Which is much easier to do when the neighbors are not too lazy to even cut their freaking grass.

 

[otherone]

I'd rather keep the little bastards out in the country where they belong. Which is much easier to do when the neighbors are not too lazy to even cut their freaking grass.

Mice are commensal. Where we are; they are.
I understand your concern....if the possibility of vermin wasn't an issue, would you still have a concern about uncut lawns?
Here's a slippery slope example:
Norway rats need running water in their habitat, so they frequent the banks of creeks and streams. Often, they follow storm drains to suburban communities, and wind up living in garages, or under decks, or in basements. The first question I ask customers if they report a suspected rat infestation is if they own a dog. Rats LOVE dry dog food.
As a community, should we ban dog ownership?
There are a lot of other scenarios. We can talk lyme disease next...should we MANDATE deer-proofing?

 

[jbauer]

So here's what you said: "Personally, I prefer not to live in a community where the vermin and mosquitos are free to set up shop in the abandoned property next door. "

So if setting up shop isn't breeding then what is it? Its just hanging out? Did they breed in your short grass and then go over to the abandoned place? Or did they all get on their smartphones and tell the "breeding area" about where they could find tall grass?

Again, why are you on a liberty forum? Why should you be able to use the strong arm of the law to tell others what to do? How is that any different then Obama telling people the had to buy health insurance or face fines? Or Feinstein wanting to take your gun away?

Is it just because you agree with the grass laws but not with other laws?

If you want to live in the city how about you buy up the neighboring lots so you can have them exactly the way you want them? Otherwise stay the F out of your neighbors business.

If you want to live in the city, then you can't act like a dumbass. Did I say mosquitos bred in the long grass? No, I didn't. You know why I didn't say that? Because mosquitos don't breed in the grass, moron. But the adults do indeed hide there during the day. If you don't believe me, go cut your nasty long ass grass and you will absolutely see a drop in the mosquito population.

And you will also see less mice, snakes and other creatures around your house too.

Gotta tell you, these days it gives me pleasure to know that my local government pisses people like you off when they ticket them for not taking care of their property. If you want to live in a dump, go live in the country where nobody cares. If you want to live in the city, stop whining about having to cut the damned grass.

 

[jbauer]

I'd rather keep the little bastards out in the country where they belong. Which is much easier to do when the neighbors are not too lazy to even cut their freaking grass.

I don't want the mice at my place either. I say keep em in the city.

Mice need a FOOD SUPPLY. Abandoned lots don't have a food supply. People's kitchens and garbage do. They didn't show up to live in the grass. They came to get something to eat. As far as cover. There is plenty of cover on anyone's property, tall grass or not.