Police Removing Basketball Hoops in Delaware

http://www.delawareonline.com/artic...t-stalls-hoops-removal-DelDOT-returns-take-it

This video really angers me. Once that blonde bitch lied to the guys face about keeping the hoop I almost lost it. Loved the "March sadness" line by the guy though. Does this bother you guys as much as it does me?

 

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Wait wait, hold on a second... are you sayin' this ain't the greatest country in the world?

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Epic RL trollin. My hat's off to these fascists.

The saddest part is all the comments saying that she shoulda been knocked off the pole and arrested, or that that's childish behavior, because THAT commenter puts up with bullshit laws, the rest of the world should too.

*edit* video finished loading.... I thought that kind of behavior was what was getting our representatives abroad blown to kingdom come daily.... Just keep pushing, guys... Americans have infinite patience for this, you've got to reduce the REST of our quality of life to that of bagdhad before we'll do anything about it. I suggest you go after the drinking water next.

If I ever go through deleware, I'll feel safer, sleep better, knowing that those peoples basketball hoops where stolen to protect me.

 

I hate people who leave that shit on the side of the road..in your yard = no problem...on the road you better hope it doesnt touch my truck when i drive by

 

That is awful. What a shitty person.

 

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These hoops where planted in peoples front yards, so that they could be used by kids playing in their street (A dead end one).

There's a state or local law saying that even though you own your full lot and are responsible for upkeep, etc, of the whole thing, you may not have anything within 7 feet of the road.

 

kind of a ridiculous law, and it's fucked up that the woman lied to him about keeping the pole, but they can't be that surprised about their poles being taken down after they received letters stating that the poles would be taken down.

 

Well, they WERE appealing it through legal means.

I've had experience with the sort of people who run things through while you're appealing decisions. They deserve a cold, damp, lonely cell, IMO.

Hopefully they can get a lawyer and push some sort of due process problem, perhaps combined with some chalenges about the age of the hoop relative to the law, and the pig lying to them.

Isn't it fucked up that the police are here to serve and protect you, but if they lie to you, it's totally ok, while if you lie to them it's a CRIME?

There's something to be said from america's old "from my cold dead hands" approach... If grandpa's got another week to live before smoking gets him anyway, and is chillin' with a shotgun in a rocker by his basketball hoop..... you don't go near his fuckin' hoop

 

I'm not sure about most municipalities in the US, but here the road's RoW usually extends a good 5 or 7 feet past the road so it wouldn't even technically be their property. And if you're going to put a basketball hoop on somebody else's property, well buyer beware.

 

it's the same in the US. i'm not sure if it's technically their property or not, but the government does have the ability to do whatever they want with it anyway.

just came up with my parents actually. the county is finally replacing/widening the dangerous bridge on the dirt road behind their house, and they removed a ton of trees and a fence from the edge of my parents' property without even giving a warning.

 

Exactly - they need a place to fix drainages, run wires (either above ground or below ground) and plow snow in the winter (maybe - I've never been to Delaware). I'd imagine the ordinance is about plowing snow.

 

i'm sure delaware gets at least some snow.

 

Yeah I know they got ordinance letters beforehand and everything. The guy said he responded back and never got an answer. Still, not much he can argue. Just the fact that she blatantly lied to his face is what angers me most. I don't think I could have held the same restraint that guy displayed

 

Having lived somewhere that often has 3+ feet of snow on the ground for part of the year, I can tell you that roadside mailboxes, trees, shrubs, utility poles, basketball hoops, and the like do NOT interfere with it.

In fact, if a plow truck did run over the curb and hit your basketball hoop, it wouldn't damage the plow at all, but you would no longer have a basketball hoop. They rip shit up, where a plow truck hits sign posts, curbs, mailboxes, or anything else, it just rips it strait out of the ground, chewed chunks of curb .3-2.5 ft. long in the road are a common thing in my aforementioned snowy previous home.

It obviously was NOT a problem, if you watch the video, a bitchy neighbor sent in a tip about specific people in their neighborhood they didn't like. I'd tend to assume they've got friends in high places, to get them targeted so swiftly and viciously.

And they KNEW damn well they where doing the wrong thing, when the guy tried to fight it they sent in crews as soon as possible, with a POLICE ESCORT.

Also, in the US, you do own the land by the street, but they may alter it as they need to, such as adding sidewalks, widening the street, etc. But if there's no reason, they can't just fuck with your things. If he didn't clearly own this land, they wouldn't have sent notice before altering it.

Law designed to let them fuck with people, decision where they chose to really fuck with people. No clear reason other than "it's the law", plenty of opposing reasons. That's about all there is to it....

I'll go be my obnoxious mixture of socialist and libertarian somewhere else, now...

 

yeah, mailboxes and curbs feel the wrath of snowplows all the time. i don't know about that metal pole though; it was a few feet into the ground.

if anything, i blame the asshole who complained. once the DOT received a legitimate complaint that laws were being broken, there was probably not much else they could do about it.

 

Well, as many posters in the comments on that story pointed out, there's a budget crisis on, and lots of REAL work to do, and they scrambled a full team with at least two dump trucks, a front end loader, quite a few DOT employees, multiple state troopers, state police vehicles, and more, to remove privately owned basketball hoops that had been there without causing any problem for years upon years.

And on top of all that, they REALLY sucked at removing the hoops, if you watched the video, and the police LIED to that man about what they would do with his basketball hoop, which should cause taking it elsewhere to amount to theft, IMO. They said they'd put it somewhere, and took it away. Stealing, pretty plain and simple.

Oh, and they threatened him with arrest if he wouldn't leave HIS FUCKING FRONT YARD and go into his house. That's WAY fucking out of line, far past removing basketball hoops. He may stand in his front yard and say things that the police don't like all he has a mind to, and they have NO cause to order him around on his property (or anywhere else, for that matter) much less threaten him with arrest for not complying.

 

they handled it very poorly for sure.

 

Common sense does not always prevail.

We live in a society of youth (and others) who are physically unfit and we spend money on awareness programs and yet something like this becomes an issue.

Here we have had communities ban street hockey. Go figure.