Category Archives: Animals
Thumbsucking HOA Idiocy in Florida
What is it about service dogs that HOAs don’t understand? It’s federal law. You cannot keep a disabled person from owning a service dog even if you hate that homeowner’s guts.
Nick Spagnolo was disabled while fighting in Kuwait and Somalia. Now, as a disabled Navy veteran he has a service dog to help him cope with his daily life. The Veterans Administration says it’s a service dog. His doctors say the dog is a medical necessity.
But the Jamestown Property Owners Association in Hobe Sound, Florida says Spagnolo’s dog weighs 40 pounds and the HOA regulations clearly prohibit dogs over 20 pounds.
Homeowners Associations across the country have been hit with massive federal fines for ignoring the rights of handicapped persons to have service dogs.
The Jamestown Property Owners Association is going to lose this one, and they’ll lose big. And the homeowners will all be hit with special assessments to pay for the legal fees and fines that’ll begin mounting up.
How do you spell ‘sftupid’?
(click here for Hobe Sound TV story)
Legal Column on Joan Rivers HOA Lawsuit
Wow! From looking at blogs and comments from attorneys around the country, it looks like Joan Rivers may get her face slapped in her little HOA outrage in New York. She won’t look very good in front of a judge or jury. How could she risk taking the witness stand? So nasty!
(click here for latest on Joan Rivers lawsuit)
HOA Halloween Jerks!
Crazy, how HOA Amerika has become so fascist.
This HOA in Silver Spring, Maryland has decided that one homeowner goes a little too far in her decorations. The kids in the neighborhood absolutely love it when this homeowner puts out her annual Halloween display. But this HOA does what HOAs do. They sue. They ‘farm’ certain homeowners to find cases to refer to their chosen law firms. They figure that ‘farmed’ homeowners will surrender, pay the fines, the jacked-up legal fees and excessive collection costs.
It’s all about money. Follow the money.
This kind of neighborhood retaliation should be illegal! It’s unconscionable.
But these lawn Nazis know no bounds.
(click here for Halloween story)
Not HOA Related, But Really Hilarious & Lovely Corruption!
From The London Times:
Outside England’s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses.
For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant….. He charged car owners $1.40 for parking, buses paid about $7.
One day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work and collecting all those fees he just didn’t show up. Managers of the zoo called the city council asking for someone to send down another parking agent to take his place.
The council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the zoo’s responsibility, not theirs.
The zoo told the council that the attendant was a city employee, not theirs.
The city council replied that this parking lot attendant had never
been on the city payroll.
After two and a half decades, this ‘parking attendant’ is undoubtedly sitting in his villa some where on the coast of Spain, Italy or France, laughing at the sucker he’d made of the system.
He apparently charged the parking fee on his own. People gladly paid the parking toll to visit the zoo.
All he had to do was show up each morning, collect the parking fees and stash them in his personal account.
For 25 years, he collected about $569 a dayl After 25 years, that amounts to a paltry 7 million dollars.
LOL! At this point, nobody even knows this shyster’s name. But he’s a genius.
And a millionaire. And nobody knows his name!
God bless you in your retirement, Sir!