It’s ultimately spring.
Better to mow the grass.
If you don’t, your area authorities could impose fines of thousands of dollars per day.  ,
Worse, your house might be taken away if you can’t pay the fine.
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Jim Ficken letting his grass increase six years ago in Dunedin, Florida.  ,
His mother passed away, and he had left village to manage her house. He requested a companion cut his vegetation, but that friend also died.
His grass grew taller than 10 feet in the two decades Ficken was absent.
City officials began to penalize him.
But they didn’t inform Ficken of that. When he finally returned, there was no notification of the$ 500-a-day fine. Only when he ran into a” code enforcement agent” did he realize that he would be receiving” a big bill”?
When the bill came, it was for$ 24, 454.
Ficken mowed his grass right away. Then the city added an additional$ 5, 000 to the “non-compliance” charge.
Because Ficken didn’t have that much wealth, city leaders promised to take him home.
Luckily, Ficken learned about the Institute for Justice, a liberal law firm that fights state abuse.
Ficken’s case was brought to court by IJ lawyer Ari Bargil, who claimed the$ 30,000 fine was in contravention of the Constitution’s “excessive bail, fines, and cruel punishments” cap.
However, a judge determined that the great was” no excessive.”
Of course, courts are merely attorneys dressed in robes. They frequently have become very at ease with large authorities as lawyer/bureaucrats.
I call a$ 30K fine for not cutting your lawn ridiculously excessivelyÂ
If$ 30, 000 for high grass in Florida is not increased, it is difficult to imagine what it is, according to IJ attorney Bargil, who spoke to local media outlets.
Officials in Dunedin frequently impose severe sanctions for small offenses.
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One resident complained to us,” They fined me$ 32, 000 for a hole in my garden that resembles a fourth.” They are good citizens, but they continue to pick on them.
It occurs everywhere, to.
A cathedral was fined in Charlotte, North Carolina, for “excessive pruning.”
A native of Danbury, Connecticut, was fined$ 200, 000 for messing up his garden.
According to Bargil,” Code protection is a significant cash cow.
Dunedin collected$ 3.6 million in fines in only five and a half centuries.  ,
But by that point, I and others had noticed. We were talking about the severe sanctions in Dunedin.  ,
Thus did the politicians sneer away and say they had milked people who had received increased fines and gave the money back?
Of course no. They employed a PR company. That added another$ 25, 000 to payers each month.
Lawmakers are primarily concerned with themselves.
After The Institute for Justice filed a second lawsuit, Dunedin agreed Ficken could receive a lesser sum of$ 10,000.
Still far too little, but Ficken agreed.
According to Bargil,” Our Founders” understood that having the ability to good is having the ability to handicap. One of the ways that the government is actually oppress is through prison.
Governments frequently impose oppression. Jim Ficken was subject to six long years of oppression by Dunedin’s officials.
