Quote Originally Posted by Xywalan View Post
Yeah ... you just wait until the wind blows that library down and on top of someone's dog who subsequently sues the city for 15 million dollars ...
Given it's on private property, I don't see how someone could sue the city for that.

I actually looked up where the city is, and I'm guessing that ordinance might have something to do with the risk of airborne structures if a tornado passes through.. Just a guess though. My main reason for sharing it though was that it's just another sign of the freedoms we don't actually have.

"I own my property!" Really? Don't pay property tax and see what happens. Or wait for homeowner's association or city to tell you you can't have a flagpole in your yard, or that you have to have cut your grass to their standards, or that you have to cut down the tree that's blocking the view of the house across the street.

I get that sometimes there's good reasons (well logical ones at least) for some of those occurrences, but in the end is the fact that our freedoms are a conditional privilege, rather than a right.

I've even seen some news articles in past about cities trying to make it illegal to smoke inside your own home. Crazy world, just getting crazier.