Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines
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#3Two things:
- I imagine people justify this by telling themselves 'rules are rules', but anyone who tries to destroy someone else's life because of grass is a loser.
- I wish it was acceptable to let grass grow taller. Makes me feel like I'm living closer to nature. (Also, mowers need to be electric or have catalytic converters. Such pointless polluters otherwise.)
Re: Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines
#4> $30,000 in code violation fines
This is already clearly ridiculous.
> for an overgrown lawn.
Only in the land of the free.
I suppose statistically in over 300 million people you would find a ridiculous city run by just sufficiently ridiculous people who do something that ridiculous.
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#5People don't bat an eye at property taxes taking people's homes, why would grass be different.
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#6People don't bat an eye at property taxes taking people's homes, why would grass be different.
$500 per day is an obscene amount of fine to levy over grass.
Re: Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines
#7I wonder if the Federal court considered Timbs v. Indiana?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbs_v._Indiana
Not quite the same situation, but SCOTUS unanimously came down very strongly against "excessive fines".
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
$500 per day is an obscene amount of fine to levy over grass.
Agreed. Better option would be to hire someone to cut the grass and bill the property owner for it.
That makes so much sense. Which is how I know they'll never implement anything like that :(