I just saw this news clip of a woman being prosecuted for growing vegetables in her front yard, what a travesty this is. The troll in the black suit should be shot with a ball of his own shit.

http://www.myfoxdetroit....ble-garden-20110630-wpms

agreed.

but if i were a punk kid, i'd release a goat or herd of lab bunnies to go to town on that garden.

To vaguely quote the neighborhood law, "No unsuitable plants" and to quote the man in the black suit, "Nothing uncommon;" Also interpreted as: This woman has been taken to court for being a non-conformist.

Its stuff like this that makes me not even want to live on this planet anymore.

See you on the moon

It is stuff like this that makes me want to round up all these morons who have nothing better to do and send them off the planet so the rest of us can live here in peace.

The problem is: you all agree she should have her garden...but would you all agree whether she should be able to slaughter pigs and hang their carcasses in her front yard?

These things don't always have simple yes/no answers, because sensibilities vary between people.

after reading the comments on that page I can see that the trolls are a minority. I say we send them on a rocket ship to the sun.

This is why you live in rural areas, not an overcrowded, dirty city filled with people who have nothing better to do than get jealous over the attention you're receiving from a little vegetable garden and report it to the city.

"Her tomatoes look so much nicer than ours. And look how she's flaunting them by growing them in the front yard. I'll show her." *picks up the phone*

If you live in a rural area where your yard is fairly hidden, you can plant almost anything you like without anyone taking notice. I refuse to buy a house in the city. I'll rent until I'm able to live in a rural area. I just got pestered about the plants I have on my balcony last week. Because they're not flowers, they tried to tell me the same thing. That they're not "suitable". My superintendent has tons of flowers all over her balcony, and I'm not allowed to have a few herbs for cooking and a couple Salvia plants growing. They didn't know what the plants were that I'm growing anyway, I had to tell them. I asked if I put some flowers out there, could the others stay? They said no. They even threatened eviction when I didn't move them right away. These are well kept plants in pots. I can come to no other conclusion than someone doesn't like me and keeps complaining. They don't like how I go out of my way to open doors for people, help them with their groceries, bring their cat into my apartment when it was a fuckin' hail storm and the cat was crying, hiding under a car. Even feeding the cat and brushing him, letting him sleep over for the night. Giving homemade organic dog biscuits to the dogs that live in the building. Helping the lady that lives under me hook up her barbeque and show her how it works, even though I'm not allowed to have one on my balcony.

Whew, what an out-pouring. I feel better now. But I still hate my superintendent.

You raise a good point here, I think slaughtering animals would be over the line. However I can't imagine how growing vegetables could ever offend someone. It also makes way more sense to have something edible growing in your yard versus a plot of water draining and utterly useless grass, not to mention the energy it takes to cut it every week.

I would be living in a rural area its just hard commute to work from the country. I have a huge backyard that I've been growing all kinds of stuff in but If I didn't have such a huge backyard I would be growing in the front for sure.

Are you kidding me? They told you you had to have flowers? I dont even think that is legal. If my landlord said that to me I would tell him to fuck off. I already told him I would sue him once if he tried to fuck me around again. landlords suck lol..

But yeah I agree..cities are cesspools. I spent the last 6 months now living downtown and I know damn well what I gave up by comming here. I cant wait till we can buy a house outside of the city. I would never even think of having kids in a city..hell no.

to be fair that is not quite the same thing..but I do see your point. Hanging a dead animal up in your yard is a magnitude more extreme than growing tomatoes in your yard. A better comparison would be cloths lines in the yard. I know that where I grew up you were not allowed to have cloth lines visible from the front of the house, becasue it is an "eyesore"..why I am not sure.

I personally would not care if someone hung meat up in they're yard, as long as they arent skinning it alive for me to hear or anything. It is not like I dont see dead animals packaged every time I go to the store anyway..some people eat meat, it is a part of life.

Humans are rediculous sometimes.

When chives are rebellion...

I think one of the deeper-rooted issues with authorities may be the fear of self-sufficiency, self-sustainability. We're all institutionalized, made to be dependent upon this thing until (accelerated) death. We have to eat its food, and when it makes us sick, we have to take its medicines, all of which costs $money$money$money$money$money. Getting back to the earth destroys that dependency.

How dare you grow tomatoes...! How dare you take care of yourself, establish a relationship with the earth, not go pay $3.99/lb. for some genetically modified freak tomatoes with a low brix count and no nutritive value, or do something that makes you happy... I can see why a lot of pathological control freaks in positions of authority could take offense with growing plants.

I know that sounds really dark, but without being aware of something, you can't really change it or find a positive solution.

In this case, I would say find angry neighbors and share salsa. <3

Oh, yeah, THE SOUND OF LAWNMOWERS DRIVES ME INSANE. But nobody seems to care about that, do they?!?!

Datura flowers, will that grow on your balcony?

I think the fact you cant grow any kind of plant anywhere you damn well want except someone elses private property is utterly insane.

I think the powers that be could legitimately argue that slaughtering pigs on your front lawn would constitute a human health hazard.

Isn't Michelle Obama all dig for victory at the moment anyway?

Clearly the woman with the vegetable garden is a loser and everyone complaining about her garden is a winner. That would be a typical mainstream opinion of this situation.

In the Western USA, the Hmong are persecuted for slaughtering chickens (and other animals) in their backyards...god forbid anyone should have cultural sensitivity

messkins do that too.
I don't particularly care, but doing that in the front yard might be disconcerting to
easily offended parents, and there seems to be a lot of those.
you know, gotta protect those kiddies from reality, and substitute it with tall tales and mythical characters.