what rocks do these people crawl out from under

Opinions area like a..holes, everyone's got one. Seem like these people on the HOA might have several.

Maybe the majority there can write a "law" that only Medal of Honor holders can have a flagpole, he earned it.
 
Jeff in VA said:
UPDATE.....the HOA has seemingly backed off a bit....

UPDATED 6:44 p.m.

D-Day has been extended a week for a Medal of Honor recipient fighting to keep his flag flying atop his Henrico County front-yard flagpole.

Col. Van T. Barfoot was facing a 5 p.m. deadline tomorrow to remove the pole or deal with the legal consequences of willfully violating an order from his neighborhood’s community association.

“There’s not going to be an announcement (of a settlement) anytime this weekend,” said John K. Honey, part of a legal team offering its services at no cost to Barfoot, 90.

Honey said that the homeowner association’s board notified him this afternoon after an emergency meeting that it would agree to push back the deadline for removing the pole to Friday, Dec. 11.

“We can all get some breathing room,” Honey said.

Barfoot, a veteran of three wars who says he has flown the American flag for most of his life, was ordered earlier this week to remove the pole because the association had rejected his request to erect it and he constructed it anyhow.

The staff of U.S. Senator Mark Warner, D-Va., has intervened to help negotiate a settlement in the dispute.


Fukkin' ay.....

Jeff
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I've got a settlement for the HOA - "Have a Coke and a smile, and shut the f*** up!"

I find this is illustrative of just how stupid these organisations are. I can't bring myself to support them even in theory - and the only place I can think of where some restrictions on how you handle "your" property would be on-post housing (since it's not really "yours" - and we all know how the military loves standards. But, even what I've seen of them isn't as irritating as HOAs - except on SAC bases around inspection time, when everyone's out painting the grass green...)
 
Maltese Chief said:
Opinions area like a..holes, everyone's got one. Seem like these people on the HOA might have several.

Maybe the majority there can write a "law" that only Medal of Honor holders can have a flagpole, he earned it.
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If they don't have several already, I think public opinion is about to fix that for them. I hope it is, anyways.
 
"Last May I didn't get much sympathy from folks here on the board when I got a ticket for parking my Jeep on the street in front of a neighbors house. Same issue, jackass neighbors with their panties all in a bunch." __________________

I've seen your Jeep, and the mere sight of it would make a vulture puke! :scared:

Just kidding! :D

I meant to say it would gag a goat! :doh:

Just kidding, again! :D :D
 
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Boatwrench said:
Last May I didn't get much sympathy from folks here on the board when I got a ticket for parking my Jeep on the street in front of a neighbors house. Same issue, jackass neighbors with their panties all in a bunch.
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Oh - and I forgot to mention my opinion on that:

If it's not dripping fluids or dropping parts, what's the problem? As long as it can be parked safely, doesn't constitute a safety hazzard beyond the normal hazzards of being in public (like pi***** me off...) and isn't an environmental problem, it's not a problem for me either.

Hank Williams said:
This is the Coalition to Ban Coalitions! Why can't everybody else leave everybody else alone?
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H8PVMT said:
the problem isn't the flag, it's the pole, he can hang a flag on one of those frilly poles you put outside your door.
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The Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 200556 prohibits a
condominium, cooperative, or real estate management association from adopting or enforcing any policy or agreement that would restrict or prevent a member of the association from displaying the flag in accordance with the Federal Flag Code on residential property to which the member has a separate ownership interest.
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Telling him that he cannot use the flagpole is placing a restriction on his displaying of the flag (restricting him to other display options), is it not?
 
I wonder if the hoa has figured out what they opened yet :D :D :D :D

We had a guy here, Gary Alt IIRC, who managed the deer herds in pa, he setup a bunch of restrictions that basically said 'no buck till they are like 2-3 years old' had threats against his life, etc, probably the most unpopular official in the state, he finally moved to calif. Now the deer herd of bucks are pretty big, the hunters are happy with the size of the bucks but it took 4 years. Thats the flip side of unpopular decisions.
 
I live in a condo with a HOA and it sucks! I get letters weekly about workin on my jeep occasionaly get a $25 fine... Ill pay the $25 a month to work on my heep keep sendin em!.... anyways HOA are a horible idea and I cant wait to get out of this place...
 
89XJPioneer said:
I live in a condo with a HOA and it sucks! I get letters weekly about workin on my jeep occasionaly get a $25 fine... Ill pay the $25 a month to work on my heep keep sendin em!.... anyways HOA are a horible idea and I cant wait to get out of this place...
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Mine has never been a PIA about stuff, depends on who get elected. At any rate they have not gotten me ticked off enough to sell the house to a bunch of hookers or drug dealers anyway or some career welfare momma with 15 kids.
 
5-90 said:
Tom, it may be "about a flagpole" - but I don't see how a single flagpole can constitute "blight" by any particular stretch of the imagination - provided it's properly installed (viz: not lying flat on the yard or anything.)

No, it's not about the flag proper, but they're causing trouble for someone who doesn't need it, an in a manner I can't see how they're allowed to do.

Where's Sussex Square?
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Jon,
You must be wound right now not to have caught this. I was pointing out the poor grammar in an editted news article.

"This is not about the American flag. This <missing the direct object of the sentence here> about a flagpole," the statement reads."

Tom
 
Boatwrench said:
Jon,
You must be wound right now not to have caught this. I was pointing out the poor grammar in an editted news article.

"This is not about the American flag. This <missing the direct object of the sentence here> about a flagpole," the statement reads."

Tom
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They left the object out because the correct object (well, all right, if we're gonna be grammar geeks it's the subject....and they left out the verb too, but would be waaaaay beneath me ever to quibble!) of the sentence is an unprinable four letter word that begins with "s" and ends with "t."
 
Boatwrench said:
Jon,
You must be wound right now not to have caught this. I was pointing out the poor grammar in an editted news article.

"This is not about the American flag. This <missing the direct object of the sentence here> about a flagpole," the statement reads."

Tom
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That could be. I have to concentrate on what I'm reading to be a grammar nazi - and I'm usually trying to do a couple of different things at once...
 
this just in......

the Colonel gets to keep his flag, and flagpole.

1600 Pennsylvania Ave weighed in on the issue.

The HOA is dropping the suit.

:us:

Jeff
 
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