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Title: Fun Police Demand That Father Demolish Cardboard Fort He Built For His Kids
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URL Source: http://www.infowars.com/government- ... rd-fort-he-built-for-his-kids/
Published: Apr 8, 2015
Author: Paul Joseph Watson
Post Date: 2015-04-08 09:10:53 by Deckard
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Views: 1118
Comments: 6
A father in Ogden, Utah who lovingly built a fort made out of cardboard for his kids and their friends almost immediately received a letter from Ogden City’s code enforcement office ordering the family to demolish the creation or face being fined. 36-year-old Jeremy Trentelman used boxes from his job as a floral designer to build an impressive fort with trapdoors, turrets and secret tunnels, enlisting the help of his wife as well as two-year-old daughter Story and three-year-old son Max. The fort featured a sign that read, “everyone can come in,” prompting other neighborhood kids to join in with the fun. But the mood turned sour when Trentelman received a letter just one day later from the government demanding he take down the structure, described as “waste materials or junk,” or be hit with a $125 fine. “ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDIN ME!!!?! We build a completely awesome box castle in our front yard for our our kids to play in and we get a notice from code enforcement?!?,” Trentelman wrote on his Facebook page. The letter was sent despite the fact that most of Trentelman’s neighbors had no problem with the castle, with Curtis Price, who lives across the street, telling Utah News: “It’s great what they’re doing for their kids. I think they should add on to it.” However, as Trentelman explains in an op-ed for the Standard Examiner, the code enforcement was triggered by a single complaint. Trentelman has until April 17 to scrap the fort and although he has agreed to do so, he will keep it up as long as possible. In support of Trentelman, his neighbors have started a Facebook page, “Calling on all the citizens of Ogden to stand in solidarity with Jeremy Trentelman by building cardboard forts in all the front yards throughout the entire city of Ogden.” As Matt Agorist explains, if Trentelman had refused to take down the cardboard fort and refused to pay the fine, armed men would have eventually been sent to deal with him and his family. “Like all threats from government, this citation from the city would ultimately be enforced through the initiation of force. Had the family refused to tear down the box fort, on their own property, they would have been met with a letter of extortion, known as a citation. Had they refused to be extorted, armed men from the state would have come to collect this money. If they refused yet again, and defended themselves from these armed men, they would be killed.” This story is just one of innumerable examples of government micromanagement being metered out via code enforcement, with Americans being arrested for failing to keep their grass tidy and others being sent to prison for collecting rainwater on their own property. Garage sales and lemonade stands have also been targeted by control freak bureaucrats, with residents facing harassment by law enforcement if they don’t apply for government permission for a yard sale in the form of a temporary commercial permit. Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/paul.j.watson.71 ********************* Paul Joseph Watson is the editor at large of Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
It's a good example of a worthwhile ordinance that's being enforced without common sense. City code officers should have left him alone until after it rains and he allows it to sit soggy and be a haven for rodents.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
Let the kids play. If a neighbor complains kick their ass.
That is typically the type that go into "code enforcement". I have known some that were good. Unfortunately, I have seen some that were former "no body's" that became obsessed with their new found power.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Well, there you go. I am constantly lectured about the evils of "majority rule" and "the tyranny of the majority". OK. Fine. Here's the flip side. Any better?
Note my comment number two.
I agree.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
This story is just one of innumerable examples of government micromanagement
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
" control freak bureaucrats "
#4. To: Deckard (#0)
"However, as Trentelman explains in an op-ed for the Standard Examiner, the code enforcement was triggered by a single complaint."
#5. To: misterwhite (#4)
#6. To: A K A Stone (#5)
" Note my comment number two. "
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