I may need to hide mine

Some of us have tried growing gardens in our small, suburban properties in order to have fresh (and cheaper) food.
If you have the right sun exposure and soil, or add the right soil, you can have a nice little patch of fresh produce right outside your door.
If you live in some cities, it better be your back door, sucker!
Julie Bass of Oak Park Michigan found out the hard way that converting her front yard into a raised bed garden was an invitation to prosecution (or is it persecution).
From the picture accompanying the story, she did a great job of making it look good.
Someone in her 'hood disagreed and called the infamous code enforcement trolls, who threatened her if she didn't move the whole shebang into the back yard.
After poring over the local ordinance, Bass decided she was not in violation and left the garden in place, only to have the "Planning and Technology Director" Kevin Rulkowski claim that the word "suitable" means "common" and therefore, Bass' "uncommon" use of her yard was "unsuitable".


I don't need to see a dictionary to know that "common" stretches the meaning of "suitable" to the breaking point.
Someone needs to be fired.  

Yogurt vs. gun road rage

The saying goes like this: "Only an idiot brings a knife to a gunfight!"
I would guess that applies to yogurt as well.
Mike Flannery cut off Gerald Williams on a Virginia highway, leading to Williams tailgating Flannery and Flannery "tapping" his brakes.
This escalated to Williams pulling around Flannery and tossing a yogurt at his vehicle and the unsurprising response of Flannery brandishing a pistol.
The WTF part of the story is that both drivers called the police and pulled over where directed.
The bigger WTF was that the gun waver only has a misdemeanor charge pending while the yogurt tosser is facing felony charges for "throwing a missile at a vehicle"!

Unbelievable!

Toddler's birthday party turns into brawl

What started as a birthday party for a 3 year old turned into a brawl where more beer bottles flew than there are socialists in the current administration.
An argument between a woman's boyfriend and ex-husband is blamed for starting the whole fight.
Multiple people were injured during the 1:00 AM fight.
Police claim that the children present witnessed the brawl.
When the cops arrived to break up the fight, there were still about 150 people present and the biggest problem they had was communicating with the mostly Spanish speaking guests.

So, why are their over a hundred people at a toddler's party and why are they still there at 1:00 AM?
It seems to me that this party was an excuse to gather and drink, not celebrate the kid's 3rd birthday.
What kind of people keep children up past midnight while they drink and party?

More idiots try to run Gaza blockade

More people tried to run the Gaza blockade that Israel set up to prevent weapons smuggling that would resupply terrorists with rockets and explosives.
The catamaran carrying "activists" who must be completely ignorant of the lack of restrictions on food and medicine flowing legally into the Palestinian territory, allowed Israeli forces to board their boat and route it to the required inspection point.
The new wrinkle in this act of ignorance is that the activists include Jews, one of them a former fighter pilot, that wanted the world to know that not all Jews support the blockade.

Israel has not stopped the flow of goods to Gaza.
They have only required inspection prior to delivery.
If there are any shortages in the Palestinian territories, it is due to Hamas and Fatah, not the Israelis.

Looks like a hate crime to me

Two women with obvious self-esteem issues (they think too much of themselves) called a Wendy's drive-thru employee a B*tch and a F*gg*t because their order was incorrect.
Not the food, mind you; just not enough condiment packs.
He replied with an appropriate but, by their rules, disrespectful comment that described them as childish and asked them to leave.
The women entered the store and one tried to slap the employee, who deflected it.
They returned to their car and came back with a stun gun and chased the employee around the kitchen while buzzing the stun gun and shouting hate speech.
See their bright, shiny, friendly faces in the original article here.