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The Spectacle Blog
Good news, everybody: the Delaware Department of Transportation has once and for all solved the horrible traffic on I-95 (one of the most heavily traveled roads in the country) through the state. Now that that particular scourge of Easterners has been defeated, DelDOT has moved on to other urgent priorities, such as terrorizing homeowners who have basketball hoops facing the street:
From Delaware Online:
Delaware Department of Transportation crews escorted by state police tore down basketball hoops this morning in two neighborhoods in Claymont amid protests from residents who say the nets aren’t harming anyone.
Last fall, DelDOT sent letters to at least eight residents in the Radnor Green and Ashbourne Hills subdivisions saying their street-side basketball hoops violated the state’s Clear Zone law, which prohibits hoops, trees, shrubs and other objects from being within seven feet of the pavement’s edge in subdivisions.
DelDOT told residents that if they didn’t take down the hoops that the agency would and residents would be charged for the removal and disposal costs, said Radnor Green resident John McCafferty.
DelDOT crews and state police officers abruptly stopped the operation this morning after a News Journal photographer arrived at McCafferty’s house on Hilldale Court, where the man’s wife had climbed up on the hoop to protest the removals.
McCafferty’s hoop was spared - for a time.
I’m just glad we have video of the conclusion of this story, because it’s so important to appreciate that DelDOT’s time and money are being used wisely and efficiently now that there’s no more horrible, nightmarish traffic in the state.
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Floyd Looney | 3.28.11 @ 11:20AM
Isn't that private property? How much money will now be spent on defending themselves from litigation? Idiots.
BTW, did anyone at AmSpec see the LA Times article about the collapse of Detroit? It never mentions politicians or policies that might have had an impact, just 'racism' and companies moving out. lol.
B D| 3.28.11 @ 12:55PM
7 feet from the edge of pavement is most likely on public land. The land that the street sits in has usually a minimum of 15 feet on either side for boulevard.
Ammo Guy| 3.28.11 @ 1:14PM
Then why do I have to cut the grass along the curb and shovel snow from the sidewalk in front of my house?
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 3.28.11 @ 6:02PM
You see, it's your property, but it's the Governments property too, but the upkeep of it, is completely up to you. And God forbid if you have a sidewalk on your property installed by your local City. Then it's your sidewalk, and the Government's too, but you're totally responsible for keeping it clear in the Winter, and they're only responsible for plowing more snow on top of it ten minutes after you finished cleaning it up. Now God forbid somebody trips on your "shared" sidewalk that the Government hasn't repaved in decades, then you're on the hook for half of the lawsuit settlement too. Fair deal, huh?
2Anglico| 3.28.11 @ 11:36AM
America, land of the free!
Sean| 3.28.11 @ 3:09PM
Welcome to the police state. We have a tyranny of noisy neighbors and do gooders who want to control other peoples properties. In times past the neighbors would be out of their homes in arms. There would be no local or state gestapo to enforce all the BS. When you designate your security to others you get tyranny.
marilyn| 3.28.11 @ 3:16PM
What makes one's stomach turn when watching this is how quickly the woman official threatens them with arrest or disorderly conduct and orders them in their house. She has state troopers standing by to intimidate and threaten them. It lets us know what tenuous ground we really stand on with government every time we think we have a right to private property or to speak out. They are the ones with the power, and they are quick to remind us of that.
jolizoom| 3.28.11 @ 3:19PM
Did you notice he didn't use foul language even when he was yelling? There is some civility left in the world! And I suspect it all belongs to conservatives.
DeLoanMan| 3.28.11 @ 5:23PM
We teach our children to respect the property of others and to not lie as these are behavior associated with BAD people. Yet when we go to the voting booths we vote for liars & cheats and somehow expect the agencies they manage to operate with respect & dignity? It Is Time!
darcy| 3.28.11 @ 5:55PM
Tax revolt. Stop funding tyranny. Obviously these state workers have little better to do with their time except to harass homeowners and "feel" their power to do so. Whittle the government payroll down to a size where the employees are too busy with essentials to go on a power trip.
Jonah| 3.28.11 @ 6:27PM
Want to see tyranny? Just look at the violence propagated by public unions in Wisconsin.
Why use the ballot box when thug tactics trump all?
All American American| 3.28.11 @ 6:49PM
So is this the "freedom" the troops have been fighting for in Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan and now Libya?
Yay freedom!!!
Bob K.| 3.28.11 @ 6:54PM
What do you expect?
This is the state whose people who sent Joe Biden to the US Senate for over 30 years!
They have it coming. They asked for it!
Sam| 3.28.11 @ 7:22PM
You could say that about a lot of Americans, Bob; afterall, Obama was elected right?
Does that mean YOU deserve everything that comes your way now?
albert constantine jr.| 3.28.11 @ 11:41PM
The Delaware Department of Transportation has long been a hotbed of corruption and mismanagement of resources. It will be interesting to see how this drama plays out.
The Bruce| 3.29.11 @ 12:11AM
How did that bitch actually come to think she had the authority to "order" that couple into their house?