Unfair laws turn gnomes into refugees
Drunk commies deleted
22-03-2006, 15:54
British tax laws have forced a small community of gnomes to leave their homes. Full story below.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-03-20T161922Z_01_L20747795_RTRUKOC_0_US-GNOMES.xml&archived=False
Rhoderick
22-03-2006, 15:58
Council tax is evil...
Unified Home
22-03-2006, 16:09
I remember a story in the paper where a woman had to remove model Pigs in her window because passing Muslim school children and there parents found them it offensive.
Its a crazy world!
Drunk commies deleted
22-03-2006, 16:18
In Kendall Park NJ there was a house decorated with bowling balls. The neighbors found a loophole that forced the homeowner to remove the balls, so now the house is decorated with dozens of rocking horses.
I V Stalin
22-03-2006, 16:33
In Kendall Park NJ there was a house decorated with bowling balls. The neighbors found a loophole that forced the homeowner to remove the balls, so now the house is decorated with dozens of rocking horses.
Precisely what was the loophole? I can't imagine there was a law anywhere saying 'No houses shall be decorated with bowling balls'. Though it is America.
On the subject of the other story, I have no sympathy for the woman. So she doesn't want to pay tax because she doesn't get anything from it? I take it she never leaves her house then. Miserable old git.
German Nightmare
22-03-2006, 16:38
In Kendall Park NJ there was a house decorated with bowling balls. The neighbors found a loophole that forced the homeowner to remove the balls, so now the house is decorated with dozens of rocking horses.
What the hell?
Anyway, here's a Gartenzwerg that the old lady should indeed put on her front porch:
http://www.zwergenpower.com/assets/big/6100090.jpg
Drunk commies deleted
22-03-2006, 16:40
Precisely what was the loophole? I can't imagine there was a law anywhere saying 'No houses shall be decorated with bowling balls'. Though it is America.
On the subject of the other story, I have no sympathy for the woman. So she doesn't want to pay tax because she doesn't get anything from it? I take it she never leaves her house then. Miserable old git.
Well, they sent a guy over who asked to buy one of the bowling balls. The homeowner let him take one. Now instead of unusual decorations, the bowling ball display was a commercial facility and therefore not allowed in a residential area. So the homeowner replaced them with rocking horses and refuses to sell or give any of them away.
Jeruselem
22-03-2006, 16:40
Councils are always putting in stupid by-laws to make ratepayer's lives harder. :(