Monday, September 13, 2010

Is This County Serious?

A DeKalb County resident is busted for growing too many vegetables. Not marijuana, not opium, but vegetables!

This is so ridiculous, the story has made it on the Drudge Report, a blog that has about 020,191,381 readers per day.

Once again this county makes us proud!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Leave the man alone ! He is doing something positive, giving to others and selling some at a local farmers market. If his property was covered with flowers, shrubs, and trees, nothing would be said. But because it is planted with fruits and vegetables (which by the way are plants also)they see fit to fine him because there are too many! What a joke, can Dekalb get any worse? I grew up there but I'm so glad I don't live there now! Do these people have nothing better to do?

Anonymous said...

Just another way Dekalb County is trying to get more money...officers aren't writing tickets so lets hit this poor guy up for 5 grand so Burrell can sweep the corrupt perps he hires under the rug with payoff money. I say we should be encouraging this guys actions trying to make his neighborhood a better place, despite the Ghetto he is surrounded by. Maybe Burrell can strike a deal with this guy and make his Garden a probation camp for all the Perps in his neighborhood, besides most of them are already amatuer gardners, just look at all the weed they grow. Just another day in the neighbor "hoood"

Anonymous said...

Wow- I'm surprised code enforcement is actually trying to enforce anything. We've got thousands of citizens in the county living in houses when they actually belong in an apartment complex because they don't know how to push a lawnmower or keep trash from piling up on their property. They don't care if they live next door to someone who actually takes pride in the appearance of their house and yard and works hard to maintain property values. These apartment dwellers living in houses are the people that code enforcement needs to focus on. We see it all the time- the eyesore continues to be an eyesore because of the sheer incompetence of this county. Funny story- I stopped a guy the other night and before I could even say anything he whipped out a badge and said "I do the same thing as you do." When I found out he was code enforcement for the county I recommended he never use that line on another police officer and also told him it might be a good idea to slow down a little bit.

Anonymous said...

DeKalb Code Enforcement is a crock of sh**. This man is trying to grow food for himself and his family and other friends and you site him for this, what about all the crap you have to look at when driving thru Dekalb County, abandoned cars, trash on the roads, illegal signs, overgrown yards, the lovely colors of houses in DeKalb (You think you are in Jamacia or the Bahamas) and you worry about vegetables being grown on this man's private property. WTF Dekalb is going on? This code enforcement officer needs to be reprimanded or terminated for stupidness along with Dekalb Government.

Anonymous said...

This is something that needs to be researched before posting. Did the BOC under the cover of darkness approve the return of unpaid holiday pay for those County employees making less than 35K? Of course no police or fire would qualify for this.

Anonymous said...

Someone doing something productive and positive in Dekalb County Georgia. Let's drag his butt into court. It's the American (these days at least) way.

Adam said...

Well, that's just dumb.

Nine times out of ten, code enforcement defendants are nuts--absolutely out of their gourd. Recorder's Court on Code Enforcement Day is the craziest courtroom you'll see in your life. They're out of their heads -- and they ALL want a trial.

Surprised to see that the zoning police have time to bust the Tomato Guy.

Anonymous said...

Is this not pathetic, did this officer have nothing better to do,to fine this man because he grew to many vegetables and God forbid he made any money.How could they fine this man 5,000 this is outrageous,we had better attention if you can be fined for growing food on your own property, we are all in trouble, and he can't make money what the hell! How many home-base businesses in this county do-they or do they not make money,there should be something un-constitutional about this, and in this economy you better learn to grow or do somthing to make your own money, with the current job market.

Anonymous said...

This man did not make a profit--he was lucky if he even broke even. He was fined each day that he did not pull the vegetables up, and then fined when he had friends helping him pick vegetables (cited for having "unpermitted emloyees" on property. He was told that he could have hogs, pigeons, cows, goats, but not vegetables. The code enforcement "officer" has very recently "retired.

Anonymous said...

This kind of stupidity is why I left DeKalb 2 decades ago. Try that down where I live and see what happens. DeKalb is just a small mirror of what the whole urban areas of this country have become because of screwed up priorities and social experimentation. You will pray to live next door to a guy like that with his garden if times get really hard. Or, maybe you will just loot the grocery store....until all the food is gone. What then idiots?

Anonymous said...

This is a case of too many redicules
laws.