Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Steve Lehto" channel.

  1. I just went and looked up Passadumkeag on Google Maps and the Town Hall says "temporarily closed". I wonder why. She quit on April 7th and it's now May 23rd. It would appear that she's had 6 and 1/2 weeks time off instead of the 2 that she asked for. How's that for a hot take.😉
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  2.  @Tugela60  For 36 years no one complained. 36 YEARS!!!! Suddenly it's an eyesore??? Also, what makes you say that there aren't city employees who aren't the equivalent of school hall monitors, pouring over obscure laws and then flexing their muscles to fill the city coffers and make a name for themselves to advance their careers. To add, the United States is NOT a democracy. Most laws are affected by a bureaucracy, made up of officials who are NOT elected but hired and appointed to their positions and we, the citizens, are forced to comply to their whims. I've appalled that these people have been doing this for years then suddenly get a fine for 1500 bucks, which MUST be paid and now have a driveway that is not allowed to be used. It's just sitting there. No order to have it removed. Put a vehicle on it, it's a "potential" eyesore. Take the vehicle off of the driveway and the eyesore is gone. It's arbitrary and capricious and a stupid law that any reasonable official would ignore.
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  3.  @Tugela60  LMAO. If they build a garage they can park the car there???? This is getting more and more ridiculous. Now they have a car AND a garage. Apparently, a garage improves the aesthetics of a car. LOL. This is exactly the kind of thing that happens when the bureaucracy gets out of control. I love the anonymous complaint. Yup....sure sounds like a hall monitor to me. The "I'm telling" brigade. Hated when we were kids and STILL hated as adults. So we still might have an eager city official, trying to make a name for himself. It could still be a "grown up" hall monitor. Reminds of Jesus talking about the Sabbath. He asked if a person should allow the lamb, that fell into a well on the Sabbath, to stay there till the following day. After all, no working on the Sabbath is one of the Commandments....one of the Big Ten, in fact. It demonstrates how one should use common sense when applying the law even if it's on the books, like this law against parking a car without a garage. Some people just have no common sense or they lack a soul. I'd say both.
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  4.  @Tugela60  Now his car is shit. Build a garage and the car turns to honey? I can't imagine how a garage can turn a rust bucket into a Ferrari. I'm looking out my window, right now, and my neighbour's car is parked in her driveway and there's no garage. I'm aghast...appalled even. She has a manure pile about forty feet from my front door. That'll drive down property values. LOL. Oh yeah, Stalin would love you. So would Mao. Self righteous informants were at the core of their regimes. You'd have fit right in. At least until someone could out busybody you, which is what happens when you think you're better than your neighbour. No wonder I've refused to live in big cities.
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  5.  @Tugela60  You have no idea what the circumstances are surrounding that fine. If it was a complaint, why weren't they informed of the violation? They went straight to a fine. Even if it was a neighbour, which you haven't even come close to proving, maybe that neighbour had a grudge against the guy and went looking for ways to get him. A revenge complaint. What if the neighbour worked for the city and is one of those moral busy bodies and knew that the law existed. He could have dropped a note in his mailbox but no way.....call the cops and get him fined. I knew a guy that built a small shed at the back of his property. Eventually he sold the place, some 7 or 8 years later. The new owner was there for over a year and he had a falling out with his neighbour. That neighbour checked to see if there was any record of a building permit for that shed. There wasn't and he ratted the guy out and he was forced to tear the shed down. He didn't even build it and that neighbour was good with that shed for years. It was only when he was angry at the new owner that he went and pulled that nasty stunt. Boy, does that ever sound like you. Morally superior, overtly vengeful and calling authorities on their neighbours, claiming that it's for their own good and for the "good" of society. You'd have made a great informant for the KGB. Stalin would have loved you.
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  6. It isn't very bright but, you'd think you'd at least be safe from a government agency whose job is to protect you. That is the issue. It's one thing to be robbed by a highwayman. It's another to be robbed by a highwayman with a badge. That shouldn't happen.....EVER.
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  7.  @Tugela60  All I'm seeing, in your comments, is a person that is supportive of all government control. If they say it, it must be done, no matter how ridiculous it is. They've been doing it for decades. The city even cut out access on the curb. It's never been a problem. Suddenly, some busybody sees it and decides to use it to flex their muscles. Hall monitor stuff.....which begs the question "Were you once a hall monitor?" It's what bureaucrats do. They validate their existence by making up stupid rules and then go out and harass ordinary people into compliance. Yet, they have nothing to say about the tent cities growing on the streets of their city. He's not allowed to park in his OWN driveway, but he can pitch a tent on a sidewalk, leave garbage strewn all around his tent, poop behind a dumpster and discard needles where ever he feels like it. A pox on bureaucrats and all the "hall monitors" that support them.
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  8.  @wayne3334  Sue both. It's the state that encourages the officer. Without state approval, the officer can't legally rob you.
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