Mark Koernke discussed a caller's (Pat from Missouri) ongoing legal battle with his city over code enforcement violations related to yard maintenance and garden plants. Pat described how he was cited for tall grass and rubbish after a shoulder injury, received an Alford plea resulting in probation, and faced continued harassment when code inspectors returned to photograph his property. Mark provided extensive advice on courtroom strategy, including bringing witnesses, preparing motions in advance, understanding procedural rules, and using landscaping tactics like trellises and garden borders to clearly designate plants as intentional gardens rather than weeds. The discussion covered selective enforcement, the adversarial nature of municipal courts, and strategies to defend property rights against what Mark characterized as revenue-driven local government overreach.
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We've been already a little bit off the air. But give everybody an idea of what's going on in your neck of the woods. And you just got a relief here. as a matter of fact, but not the way you necessarily want it, I understand. Right. Do you want the long version? Go right ahead. This is our program. I can let you talk as long as I want to. All right. So go right ahead, please. Well, I won't go all the way back to the beginning. I'll just go back to... A good overview would be fine. Yeah, when this round started was September of 2012. I was out working in the yard. I sprained my, I didn't find out for a couple weeks though that I had torn the anterior rotator cuff and I had to quit doing it and just kind of take it easy. It got real painful. So my grass started getting a little long and flying by I got a notice in the mail that I better cut the grass. It's going to get a citation. And there was also a citation for quote unquote rubbish. And so, I called the code inspector. He's the guy that handles this kind of thing. And I said, I know the grass has been getting a little long, but sprain my shoulder. Can you give me a few extra days to get it? Because by this time I had been to the doctor and she said, I don't want you doing anything with that shoulder for at least a few weeks. And here he wanted me to have it cleaned up within one week. And I also said, Tell me what's wrong with the front porch. Or what is the rubbish? And he said it was the front porch. I had too much clutter on the front porch. Okay, fine. I'll clean off the porch. I'll get somebody to help me cut the grass and we'll be all set. Got that all done. Front porch was clear. Grass was cut. I called the coating specter back and I said, all right, everything's ready. Do I have your okay on this? Is it passable to you? And he said, fine, yeah. The next morning, the very next morning, I get a knock on the door. It's the chief of police handing me two citations. One's for weeds and one's for rubbish. And I gotta go to court, so. To court. And it's a small town, funky kind of deal here, you know. You go in and you stand in line, you talk to the prosecutor, you try to make a deal, or you plead guilty, not guilty. And then you go and talk to the clerk. And all this takes place a half hour before the actual court session begins. And I went in there, was going to plead not guilty. Over there, I get set for a trial, so I did that. And then I come back following months for the trial. And I can't remember now. For some reason, it was going on. I came back again. And I was sitting there with him prior to the trial. And he says, if I were you, I would I'm going to try to win this case because I'm going to be as rough on you as if you were a lawyer yourself. I've got enough evidence to convict you." I explained the story to him, the whole story, that it was wrongly done and so forth. He said, well, what I suggest is that you do an Alfred plea. Do you know what an Alfred plea is? No, please go ahead. Each takes a little different with regard to how the operator does. Go ahead. If you look it up on Wikipedia sometime, it goes into depth on it, but basically what it boils down to is you're not admitting you did anything wrong, but you think they have enough evidence to convict you. And he persuaded me to do this, and I was, this is my first time in court and I'm kind of nervous, and you know, I don't feel like arguing anymore, and so, and then he tells the judge when my turn comes up, she's doing an Alfred plea, and then they, uh, The judge says, well, I'll suspend this sentence, the court costs and signs, and give you a year of probation. So I kind of went, whew, you know, because I didn't have the money to pay the fine anyway. So this past May, the Dakota inspector comes creeping around again and taking pictures and telling me I got to cut the grass. No problem. I had him over here and I said, look, this isn't all grass. Some of this is a garden. And I pointed out every single plant in the garden, what it is. I even let him taste them. Obviously, I named potato. We were doing it. It was wrong. I don't know. He grabbed the potato leaf and started chewing on it. His eyes crossed. He went a little twitchy and that was all she wrote. Well, this guy's a nice guy. He's a nice guy. Not very. He's not a nice guy. Oh, no. I tried that potato leaf. He obviously kept chewing things. It was like, well he just grabbed everything from the garden and started knowing that it was wild-eyed and crazy. I called the police, they wouldn't come, they said he was one of their people. He's over there in the garden twitching. I don't think he's breathing anymore now, he's just twitching. Something about the neurosystem. Go ahead. He's actually on my side. But October, what was it? Sometime in October they sent me a notice in the mail again. violated probation and I got to go back to court. I was supposed to go back on November 15th and I did. The prosecutor was out sick, so it got reset until December 20th. And this time I go in, the code inspector who is going to be a witness for the prosecution and for me was out sick. The case continued again, but I wanted to change my plea. I thought I had actually done that previous month in November. because I did bring it up to the judge and she said, well, if you want to change your plea, we can't do this today. We got to wait till next month. So I said, well, I was going to ask you to dismiss it anyway, because number one, city code, before you send an abatement notice on weed, you're supposed to have an informal hearing, the person you're being complained about. And I didn't have that. See, I didn't know this back when it first happened because I only read as far as the first half of the code and this is deep in the second half of the code that they're supposed to have this informal hearing and I thought, well I could probably get this dismissed on procedural grounds because they never had the informal hearing. If they had, I could have said, well I've got a sprained shoulder, I'm sorry, but I'll clean it up. But the tickets were given anyway. After the code inspector had passed me, I had a The porch was when the police chief came up here and handed me the ticket for the rubbish. And so I called the code inspector back the next day and I said, what's the deal? He says, I don't know. I'll have to check and call you back. And then he called me back the next day and he said, well, it's this pile of wood. And I had firewood stacked on the edge of the lot where I had a tree cut down. It was an elm and it was cut down live. half on the next door neighbor and half on me and we shared the cost of cutting it down and I paid more so I could keep the wood. But you have to leave Elm sitting for two years before you can split it. It's very hard to split. And these were huge chunks. They couldn't even be moved. I mean, the tree was three foot diameter down the trunk. And the inspector said, well, it's the pile of wood. And so I'm supposed to get rid of this pile of wood. and they never even told me about it and yet they gave me a ticket for something different. And so I was telling this to the judge and they left me to go last. I think they didn't want anyone else to hear. They do that intentionally. I'll tell you why. Because number one, they know they've been caught in the scam. And I'm going to tell you right off the bat, that is not a surprise. That is the norm. Especially when you're doing pro sei work. Don't want anybody to see what they're going to do to backstab you or betray you. They don't want witnesses because there's another reason for this. If you're the first one up on a case, this is basically what's called a sunrise to sunset rule. The court is a business. And whatever happens in the court sets a standard from the beginning of the day. And if you're ruling, if you were effective, if you go in there and chew my new hind end and you beat the snot out of them, you set the standard for the rulings for all of the other regulatory process. Nobody knows this. It's like, kind of like it's a Jewish thing. The first guy that goes in gets the right deal. There's a rule about Jewish businesses. You don't know this. I know a lot of people. There's that industry, you're stealing the street. Be first. If you're there, the first thing, you get a special deal. It's part of the, you know, that way the rest of the people that get screwed, they can feel good about, because they're merciful to somebody. The same is true with regard to the courts. Same scam, different arena. but it basically is you're setting a precedent for the day's business and any cases similar yours then if you will return the process they have to follow that guideline for every other activity see that's what they don't want because you bring proper argument it's called good law when you brought good law into the court you panic them because you're not supposed to know about good law good laws where with all the regular for all their p.s. you know they make them who talked about this on the air and you know really bad Where they made a ball of spaghetti and they made it so complicated you're supposed to go, oh god don't shoot me for having the trees in the yard! You're my puppies even, you could have a cat with my money! Okay well see that's the whole idea. But what happens if you decide, man I can't afford this, which is what's happening to America and has been happening for a long time. You go in, you read everything like you said, it's like, well wait a minute there's procedure here, nobody followed any of it. Well, you're not supposed to follow any of it. Well, wait a minute. What are these rules? I've actually been to the court and heard them say that they've said this to me. Well, we don't know. Those rules don't apply here. Well, if they don't apply here, where do they apply? And everything goes quiet for a minute, and the prostitute looks down at the floor because I'm looking straight at the judge. Well, if they don't apply here, sir, where do they apply? Because you see, all of these characters are corporate. and they all have signed agreements and they have standards. So that's why they made you last because they have to try and get around. They don't want anybody to be there. That's why you should have done, you know, Pat, real quick one here. I didn't, I should have done a long time ago talk about this. Always bring more people in with you. Well, we're going to clear the courtroom. All the other cases are done. And if you have four or five other people sitting there or even two or three, And they're sitting there and you have no path and everybody's writing and scribbling. Just write. Just write anything. Write what the guy's saying. Write what somebody else is saying. Write the color of the record keeper's dress. Doesn't make any difference what it is. Look up, look down a lot. Write a lot. Have the glasses on your nose, the whole nine yards. Look serious for your briefcase. And when they have all the cases gone and there's still people in the courtroom, I guarantee they'll walk up. What are you here for? Pull on with her. Well, now they realize, see, it's like the Committee Monkeys thing. You're not alone. The prostitute is a whore working for the court. I'm sorry. Fudge up front, whoever it is, male or female, or wearing the black dress. There's no difference. They're all the same clique. And the Erwin Rommel School of Law basic motto, the court is a battlefield, the judge and enemy general, the prosecutor and enemy officer, you're a lawyer and enemy spy. But if you negate the enemy spy, then they have to try to do what they can to abuse you. And like you said, well I'm going to preach you just like I would a lawyer. Oh, don't worry. I'm not a lawyer. See, that's the problem. You're not. So you actually apply the rules. You're not going to go golfing with a prosecutor after the court proceeding, are you? No, I'm here. Oh, okay. I was going to say. You're not going golfing after the court case with a prosecutor, are you? No. They did leave me till last. See, that's why they kept you last. But anyway, go ahead. There was no one last in the courtroom at the end. Just me and a friend I had brought along to listen. Very good. So I was going to, I was all prepared to ask her to dismiss the case based on first of all the procedure and second of all if she didn't do that, to dismiss it on the grounds that the tickets were given improperly. But of course the code inspector who is a nice guy wasn't there and they must have talked about this once I think and said, well let's dismiss the case on some other grounds because she's not going to give up. At first he told me that he was going to ask for another continuance because I was sick and he was going to be a witness. As far as I understand it was wrong because to my knowledge The judge who imposes a suspended sentence always has jurisdiction in a case later on. She said she was dismissing it because she no longer had jurisdiction. The case was too old, was more than a year old. I said, well, I was going to ask you to dismiss it anyway because of this and that, you know. And showing me pictures that they had taken from the street and asking, what's this, what's that in the yard? She got very argumentative. Well, I'm not a plant person. I don't, I can't, I said, well, it's impossible to recognize what is a weed, what is grass, and what is garden plants. From looking at a photo from a distance, everything just looks like green. She said, fine, well, if this happens again, I'm going to order it all mowed down. I don't care what it is. And I said, right, and she said, well, I'll come over there personally and look at your yard. I said, that would be great. He said, but don't get back here. Well, they're driving by my house the very next morning and taking pictures again. They were looking for anything that they can give me another ticket and get me back in that court. They want to start the case fresh is what they wanted because they knew they had done it improperly this time around. They wanted to start over again. I think the bottom line is, They want me out of here. They want this house on the auction block because what happens is if you lose one of these cases, they slap you with a fine and court costs and if you can't pay it, they add it onto your property tax bill and charge interest at so much per month and if you still can't pay it, then eventually they'll take your house for not paying your tax bill. I think in this case, they want me out of the house. Somebody wants this house. has connections or maybe is in the city government wants to house well that's there's couple things are number one is they want everybody's house there's a lot of slobs that are in communities we have a couple of things are like this here that have tried this uh... they got run to go around town that's exactly what they were doing they were using you know uh... they had a couple of but what is on the uh... town council township council what they were doing is what they saw that they wanted to steal off people's property they would arbitrarily use the blight law If they saw a classic car or something, they have to steal it. That's a blight! No, there'd be three cars down the street, but they're brand new or... We're not brand new, forgive me, but you know, like 90s cars and they've been parked for, you know, 10 years. No bother. But you've got something that looks like it's worth money? Yeah, yeah. One gentleman who went into service and his... her... the guy's mother was keeping a 57 Chevy and a 59 Chevy. parked next to the garage in the backyard and these characters were hawking. I mean they have to go hunt this stuff out. Now personally if I come back I'd have killed them both. I mean just being in the military the way I was back in the day would be like what oh really? Well you know bop bop bop bop. I mean beat him to death. I wouldn't have shot him but it beat him to death and that's something that really needs to happen more often. I'm sorry. This whole racket is designed purely to waste your time and what happens is here's the thing. A little better training, not only can we beat them, but we beat them so hard they get tired of actually coming into any kind of process. Most important is that you need to, you've probably been doing this, but you need to get everything you can on all of the regulations regarding this subject from the town. But you also need to cross reference with the state. There's a lot of stuff that these municipalities try to do. that is, you know, it falls outside of the guidelines. Is this a zone community? It's not a zone community. Well, I mean, they have zoning laws like, you know, here and residential there and so forth, but I mean, it's not like a... That's zoning. That's a zoning law. So here's two things where they have community... Well, they're probably under the zoning guidelines. These aren't implying everything. See, like they said, from one city to the next, one town, they... it's like a smorgasbord you pick and choose what you want to grab from the plate or the you know, it's putting your plate from the table and that's what they do uh... the idea behind this though is that this gives them the ability to do what you're seeing happening right now it's revenue against the landowner it's the very thing that the founding fathers warned everybody about zoning is exactly what everybody was warned about This arbitrary and capricious activity on the part of the state and the part of the locals, the locals were just the local Tories were no different from the county Tories and were no different from the federal Tories. The first sites that are described in the Declaration of Independence were at all tiers. Now what we did before the war for independence is we ran them all out of the townships and we ran them all out of the counties and they all went and hid in Boston or other locations where the crown had control. They were all run back away from the countryside. all the men of officers like this now the problem is that no one thing they were testing water your person who was the inspector probably wasn't said he was told not to show up under the logic that you were supposed to panic because the average person who was my witness but you know that you want really much with them you ask for the continue to see how they react. Oh, I see my witnesses in here. Well, I guess we're going to ask for a continuance then, Your Honor. In fact, here's the other thing about this. And if you've done this enough or helped people with this enough, this is what we did in the 90s and into a degree. It's just not done as much because a lot of the gray hairs have passed away. So everybody counted on a handful of people to do all the work. So we tried to train a bunch of other people. Some took it seriously. Most did not. Or they did, but they did it in a hobby form. In your case, what you need to do is be armed and ready to, because you've got to defend the largest piece of personal property that you own, your house, right? They are going to come after it. There's a click usually that tries to, just like you saw with the foreclosures in 07, remember that they came out in the news and then they shut up about it because the control press is owned by the same people who own the banks. That a whole bunch of millions of foreclosures were illegitimate. administratively illegitimate and it doesn't mean it was what they say well that's just a really if i decide to have some technical failure they will jump on you like like like high news on a wounded gazelle okay so in reverse order the thing is what's good for the goose is good for the goosey when you go into the court you're sitting at equal across the field not as an inferior because you went in pro se Now, here's the other thing. The judge knows that there's also supposed to be greater leniency because, well, you are a novice working in the arena. That's another thing that's been upheld in the court all the way to the federal level. But you don't know that. And so, you know, again, we'll just say that you're going in as is. Arm yourself with the regulations. You know, if all else fails, here's the thing. You know, there's a basic rule. If you really want to start peeling me off, It's up to you. There's a couple different ways you can do this. If they're just going to keep continuing to harass, just start gussing up the place a little differently, maybe. I don't know how you got what your motif is for, you know, what your theme is for the property, but sounds like you need more lawn mowers. You need yard ornaments for the garden area where you have it, and each one needs to be circled with rocks and purified. You know what I mean? But like, I mean, really like psychedelic. See, the other consideration is, do you, how many neighbors do you, are you like in a neighborhood or are you like in the edge of town, where you're located? Yeah, it's just the average city street. The lots are on the large side. I have about almost half an acre here. Oh, you've got a good size lot though. Half an acre lot in town? Most of the lots are that size or half the size. Do you know who your neighbors are around you? Well, the house on the east side is vacant, the one on the west side, I think these are the people that actually want this house. They're the ones that sold me now. It's kind of a long story. But I think they are the people who are complaining because they think I wronged them in the past, which I didn't. Yeah, sort of backstabbing you, but the other consideration is who owns the house that's empty? The empty house? Yeah. The bank. So... Any other houses empty around you that have been taken? No, not right now. And how did the bank own that house? Was that a foreclosure? Yeah. My neighbor moved out about two or three years ago and then he rented it. His family grew too big and he needed a bigger house and he rented it to his aunt for a while and she left and then it sat vacant for over a year and it was on the market. Nobody bought it. But he was coming over there to mow and take care of the place. One day they showed up and they were clearing out things he still had stored in the house that he had left there when his aunt was living there. I saw the activity over there and I walked over and said, yeah, well, we're getting ready for the appraiser and everything has to be out of here so we're clearing out John's stuff. any of this stuff you feel free to take it." And I said, well, I'd like the firewood. There was a pile of firewood out on the next to the garage. And she said, oh, I already gave that away to your neighbors on the other side. I said, what else have you got? She said, I tried to offer you the wood, but you didn't answer the door. I'd been in the shower. So they walked over next door and offered them the wood. But there was lots of other stuff, cans of paint. I can't remember what all now. While I was over there getting what they were giving me those neighbors came over and got the stack of wood and They looked into the yard here and they saw the garden and they thought whoo, it's like weeds and I think they called again That's why I got the probation revoked Initially sold me the house and they they owned a house next door where they're living now, but they weren't living there It was rented out. This one was rented out to during the negotiations to buy the house. We had a few minor disagreements. I never expected them to move in, but they evicted their tenant on short notice because they were losing their house to foreclosure and moved in and they started letting their dogs run all over the place and you're not supposed to do that in town, you're supposed to confine them to your yard or have them on a leash. Well they were running over here all the time, crapping in my yard and on the garden. And then denying that their dogs ever even go out. Well, they let them out in the morning and the evening when animal control is not on duty and so nobody can really report them. When they finally put up a fence and they kept getting out of the fence. I never complained about those dogs to the city. I complained directly to them. I asked them to please keep their dogs off. But I knew better than to complain to the city because This guy has a temper. I mean, you should hear them. They argue at the top of their lungs. In the winter, when both houses, their windows closed, I can still hear them inside my house arguing. That's how loud they are. And we both have double-pane thermal windows. Anyway, I had heard he has a nasty temper from people that worked with him. Actually, the neighbor that moved out on the other side told me this. And I don't want to take a chance antagonizing these people by complaining about anything. But one day, the reason they were having their side of the Elm cut down is because they were planning to move a portable building in and Elm branches were in the way. I came home one day and here's this portable building sitting right on the lot line between me and them and two feet from their own house. And I'm like, wait a minute, I was about to put a fence up there. Now I can't do it. And I looked up in the city code and it says, any accessory building has to be five feet from the lot line and 10 feet from an existing building. And I did call the city on that, but I didn't complain. I just said, here's this neighbor with the building sitting right on the lot line. They would have seen it the first time the code inspector would have drove by or anybody would have drove by. They would have seen it. Aha, there's a new building there. And looked at it and was obviously sitting where you could barely squeeze between the building and their house, they would have been ordered to move it. The fact that I called had nothing to do with them ultimately being told to move that building, which they did. But as far as they're concerned, it's all my fault. And add that on top of the, oh, I'm supposed to, I'm sure they've had other people call and complain about the dogs and they just assumed it was me because they hate me, you know? There was something that happened while the negotiations for the house was going on. We got off on the wrong foot there. And because I had talked to them about the dogs. Question, how their house is empty still? No, which one? The one that was sold. One that the bank has and is empty, correct? Yeah. The other one they have. On the street. Anything? Oh yeah, I've got neighbors across the street. Okay, no, just surroundings. I'm just trying to get an image. one of the things to remember about going in and not miss which back to the court case uh... one of the things to remember about going in his gift you are all and whenever you're doing any work like this again several motions already prepared and not only that but remember make sure that you have all of the uh... proper documents uh... covered in other words uh... make sure that you have a register registration requirement Although, typically, again, if you're going into the court, to the judge, make sure to see a copy for him, make sure you have a courtesy copy for the court, make sure you have a copy for the prostitute right there. If there's another party involved, slap them with that. I also send one through the mail. But if it's something that I already know, be on a show of it, I'm going to do it in the court. One of the things about the possibility of an extension is have it ready to go. So the moment they, you know, if they look like they're going to continue to get pissy, Literally you pull the motion out and based upon the fact that my witnesses in prison This is the motion for an extension like a court date now It really messes with them is if he's ready to go if you already have an idea of where they're probably going to go Or where they can go for the few minutes it takes with the miracle of the computer now and print out have a format program set up so that all you do is change this you know the key components and you know print five copies because I need five copies and And then once you're done with that, oh wait a minute, now change format, date, well date's gonna be subject, let's see, check the code, you print up your next filing or your other filings. This may vary depending on what you're doing. We're accusing the judge to change a venue. All of that can be ready to go. There's nothing that they can, I mean, it really flusters them to no end because again, you have the briefcase, right? Pull out the filing, you're already ready to go. Well, by the way, Your Honor, here we go, I need to file. We're gonna be filing this, we're gonna be filing this. Oh, and by the way, hold on. What did you just say? Oh, yes. Well, hold on a second. Walk right through the papers. You have ready to go with a paper clip with each each block. Little title tag on each one of those little bottles of paper. You pull the next one out. You take the paper clip off to the side. Confirm that you've got the right packet. the bailiff or the bailiff typically will make the presentment to the judge they don't allow you to get up all the days they let the lawyer move around all that he wants which I think is rather fascinating tells you how terrified they are the idea that you're even there but the idea behind it is to have preparatory filings ready to roll and it mocks with me to no end it sounds like for the moment they're stable one of the other things to consider will settle the whole thing with your plants or you want to use a when anybody tries to question Well, there's a trellis there, thriving in the ground. So we've got nice little tines and everything. You know, you can build them. I build trellises from scrap wood from the construction site. And the idea is that, well, I do that because all the material is free and it saves. You know, especially when we're doing the gardening for the year, we have certain plants like our raspberry bushes. I have trellises for all of those. Fancy. I just make a certain difference. I'm going to have a certain amount of material. I make a certain model. You know, if I run out of that material and have something different, I have to figure out and make that work. I'll make another type of trellis. And paint them up. That free paint you got next door or cheap house paint you get from, you know, resale, restore, resale. You just make sure, again, paint them and drive them in. And there's no doubt, if you're going to come over and mow everything down, you're going to have to move the trellises, aren't you? That's a great idea, Mark. Thanks. And that settles it real quick because it's like, well, what part of this don't you understand? Was it the trellis that was there? You could even get to the point where if you wanted to, you could even put a little tidal plaque on the things, you know, like for what it is. It'd just be fun anyway, it's up to you. But the trellis is the indication that, yeah, that's a flower or a garden thing and or a plant, so leave it alone. And what part of that don't you understand? And every time they take a picture, is that a trellis? Well, that's a trellis, isn't it? Can't you figure out what the trellis is for? And there's nothing that says you have to be a perfect gardener, or for that matter, that you can't control Mother Nature and how Mother Nature grows. You're not three feet tall, the plants never get more than a foot and a half tall. But the trellises don't have to be that big. And if you go to the dollar store or you can go to any one of the garden centers, and even any of the big hardware stores, they have garden supplies year round. And you can get trellises there, different types and models, iron, steel, metal, whatever you want, or plastic. Personally, I'd make them out of wood because that way they're a lot easier to deal with if you want to get rid of them. Everything that I do, if it's old, it's all pieces again, if it's tired, and I make a new one. One goes in. I've got trellises I put together three years ago for the Raspberry Bushes. We came in from out of state from one of our friends. They're all freebies. But there's no doubt what they are for. Again, what would you put a trellis in for? Oh, what are, what, we're look up the definition of trellis and oh, that's right, it's supportive of, you know, organic structures, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that's why I have that trellis there. For my garden plants, because you're gonna need trellis, do circular ones around the area, you know, like if you have a cusp of, you know, whatever, there are trellis around it, around whatever you wanna do. See, that settles it real. And more, however many you need, you know, this is the other thing. Well, it doesn't have a real pretty pattern. There ain't nothing there that says that it has to be aesthetically pleasing to you. It's aesthetically pleasing to me. You see, that's the kicker. That's what I was saying. If all fails beware, you might not have liked my pink and lavender house. Or I should say my pink and purple. I like my purple trim on my new fence. You know what I mean? We can have some eye candy out there for you. That'll really make you wonder. But you can't say a darn thing about it because it's painted and it's taken care of and it looks party. That's another way to go, but I wouldn't bother with that right now. Big thing is the trellises and other, you know, again, other ideas. Uh, you know what, the other thing with the sign, here's the thing. You get a piece of plywood. A couple pieces. You got any construction going on in town? No, but there's plenty of scrap lumber hanging around here. Okay, you get a couple pieces of plywood, paint them with some house paint white, black print. It's firewood. Seriously, all four sides. I would put it on all four sides. I've done that, but it's like, well, they take a picture of, well, what is this? It's firewood. You have to do this with it. It's like, you know, you know, through the trespass laws are all in effect and they try to tell you that they're not. Well, of course they do because after all the, you know, the shysters that are trying to just, you know, bring in, you know, the, the crown, you that everything that has to do with protecting your property doesn't exist. everything that has to do with them violating everything you own is in place and correct no matter how evil it is. That's the nature of the regime that always will try to get away with. Don't trespass, the trespass are something that whether or not they're enforced is a matter of how much, you know, how many people you got to back it up is what it comes down to. But I wouldn't worry about that in your case. I would more, like I said, dress the place up. more trellises and more, you know, little, you know, sub fences and stuff that allow things to grow or would normally allow things to grow. If you want them in white, that makes them stand out so when they take a picture they're harder to hide. The other consideration though is another medium color that way when they take the picture will stand out. Grazed brown pans. During the summer it will stand out. Grazed brown probably the tan would be best because tan really, you know, a desert color is something there's lots of out there the plastic's cheap that's why they're doing it and the color is cheap and that's another way to settle the whole problem that they take their pictures of what's that thing right there what what's that thing stand all those are trellises aren't they? what part of trellis don't you understand with gardening? I think I'll use pale green you treat them like a like a child talk always down them like a child are really that stupid you know what's wrong with you what you recognize what a charlotte's is you understand what that is the only other option is again more ornamentals and stuff to the front like to the front front in terms of shrubs and brush and you know bush you know or you know slash things that grow just like a good job just fenced in with a low fence little patches where i have to yeah exactly well you know think think uh go to the go to your uh Well, if you've got any of the big hardware, carpentry, lumber, plumbing, yard companies out there, you know, there's different ones like the size of a neighborhood. Even this time of year, all their garden centers are sitting there. And this time of year, there's stuff they even have that you probably can get a deal on. Remember, most of them, if the stuff has a little bit of tick or damage, you usually get it for 50% off. So just something to think about there. If you've got any of the big stores, You know, they like the big hardware slash. There's a couple of different ones around the country. I don't know what you have in your area, you know, for your neck of the woods. The idea is that you could even do it now. I don't know, how was your ground? Is it frozen real heavy yet? Oh, it's not too bad. I haven't been using big rocks as borders. But I think that I need something taller. You're right. Something that stands out in a photograph. Yeah, that's what I was saying. So it's up to you. Or, again, like I said, if you do it in dark wood, if you paint them, then make them up yourself. At least the stakes. If you drive the stakes in to hold your, whatever you're going to use for your borders, it's pretty straightforward. They say anything. But I put on the firewood, the firewood, all of it. I would do that with all of your firewood piles. With one on each one. And that way, and don't be nice, it's not being nice. It's like, well, they're going to photograph it. Well, who was that for? Well, whoever's stupid enough to take a picture of it. Whoever's wasting so much of their lifetime that they're running around town with a camera taking pictures of other people's property. What's your point? This is selective enforcement too because I see as I'm driving walking around town I see overgrown yards with real weeds. This is always the case. It is always arbitrary enforcement. There is never the laws. There's an excellent song that we've got that's part one of the Billy Mummy songs. People were made for most to lose. arbitrary enforcement is the nature of government and why we must understand that they put checks and balances in place. There is no fairness with regard to people who seek individuals, especially the people at the local level typically are petty. They will probably not move beyond their petty position. The individuals that have gone to the county level or farther up typically more wicked. Notice I didn't say sly and wicked, but wicked always applies to sly. There's another factor at play here too, and I've had some experience with this. Some direct and some not direct, but this is a little town in the Midwest. And if you were born and raised here, you're all set. If you have a beef with anybody that's moved in as an adult, you're gonna win. So we're at inbred, physically inbred, but I mean tight. It's a tight community and they don't like outsiders moving in, especially if you don't have a lot of money. and it may be a little different in some way. You like to plant a garden in the front yard. Well, I've got very little sun in the backyard. There's a small part of the backyard that has sun, but mostly the front yard is all sun, where it works. Also, we got a new mayor a few years back. Before him, I could grow anything I wanted in the front yard. Nobody let out a peep. As soon as that new mayor came in and the people moved in next door that weren't there when I brought the house, that's when the trouble really started. This is, you gotta remember, number one, okay, this is happening all over the country because they're told Homeland Security along with the peckerwoods that make up the gutter trash that are the manipulators have the township, it's the, and county associations that are all national. and then they tell everybody from the state component notices of what this evil thing is part of it's part of the Heritage 21 thing, it's part of the control freak thing for showing your muscle. I don't think we know about it, I've seen most of the emails. We got two of the computers from their stinking offices, they sold them outright, didn't clear the hard drives, and you get all their emails back and forth and you're reading it, it's all right there, it is over and over again I've watched this, and it's the same scam back and forth. they get these notices and it's like, ooh, this is revenue, this is recompense, you know, well, whatever we gotta do, we gotta crush those people, they're gonna be different. Now, one of the things you can do is look at Italian, to eliminate most of the problem, you look at Italian closed wall gardens and think that way with how you construct your front yard. Just something to think about. I don't know what Italian closed wall that's what you have to look it up. You're gonna have to it's kind of fun You're gonna be it's it what's really neat remember Italian Italian Spanish most Middle Eastern and Mediterranean households There isn't any Front yard per se in fact, it's all backyard set up is everything is walled garden now instead of a walled garden What you want to do is you want to think about outer barriers in your your ape design obstruct vision and make it the cult but also look pretty so they can't, they won't open their mouth but they can't. You know what I mean? In other words, pick something, I'll tell you what I love is raspberry bushes. I love raspberry, I love especially aggressive thorn berries. And you plant that in a front trellis and it becomes, you know, they become wicked brambles. They have a code, one of the laws, that you cannot fence beyond the house into the front yard so I put bamboo on both sides. It got pretty tall and thick. That was mainly because I wanted to keep the dog from one side and the noise and just block the view from the side. So, you know, I'm not allowed to put any kind of anything over two feet two feet high in the front yard. So, but I'll find some way. Well, you could plant some micro trees. No, I mean, fence-wise, it can't go over. Well, I wouldn't worry about fence. No, I'm talking about using plants. Because you like to do plants anyway. But you want something that is going to require minimal maintenance and is going to work barrier-wise so that it's difficult. And then also remember you want to sculpt. You tier your garden. You do it more in a natural motif, rather than, in other words, scroll it, rather than create box or line gardening. That way whenever they try to flap their yap, it's just purtifying things. Ornamental tomatoes, of course they are edible. Some think about, you know, the same with anything else you do. See, for me, I'd be, the first time you start that, oh, I learned a long time ago, purtify it. See they were trying to mess with one of the guys tractors down the road here because he had a tractor in the back, you know the old story, it was white except that then the same person who would yap about that would go buy a painting of an old barn with an old car sitting next to it with a chicken on the car and oh isn't that so quaint not even think about the hell they're looking at it's like so the guy had an older tractor there he said well here's how it works you decide to piss around with my tractor I'll hook the other
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