Township fines me $5000, claiming my garden blocks rainwater from getting to my own sewer on my property. Guess who my neighbor is?

Yep, and do you eat lots of ice cream?

The human race is so lost, why hurt innocent trees because of the actions of man.

Just sell the property and move somewhere better where you can re-establish your garden. Hard work, yes, but it will keep you fit and busy.

Yep, and do you eat lots of ice cream?

The human race is so lost, why hurt innocent trees because of the actions of man.

Just sell the property and move somewhere better where you can re-establish your garden. Hard work, yes, but it will keep you fit and busy.

*This story will be in a major newspaper tomorrow where I live.*

So, 3 years ago I built a pretty expansive garden on my property. I have grown just about everything. In that time, I have been able to loose over 85 pounds and get my life back on track, living a much healthier lifestyle. I was tired of being fat and unhealthy and decided that planting my own food was the best approach at changing my life. Through my garden, my mother was able to help nearly cure her diabetes after i convinced her to start eating food that i grew from my garden. Today she is off of all of her insulin and diabetic medication.

The problem? My neighbor just happens to be the commissioner in my town. My other neighbor, just happens to be his son. They have made it fairly public that they hate my garden. After i went door to door and had an overwhelming majority of people who live on my street sign a chicken petition, things started to take a curious turn. So curious that my commissioner neighbor and he son, purchased over 40 trees and planted them all in a line right along my property fence to block my garden. He then had the audacity to question my neighbors and ask them why they signed my chicken petition.

It's a long story, but to keep it short, the township sent me a letter claiming that my garden was restricting rainwater from reaching a sewer grate located on my property. We live at the bottom of a hill, so this could never physically be true. The township cites that this water restriction had been, "brought to their attention", by an unnamed source.

We sent certified letters to the township asking for proof that our garden blocks rainwater, and we also asked for proof of the complaint that was called into them. The township ignored our requests and failed to respond to any of our letters. After some time had passed, we received a letter from the township stating that if we did not remove or relocate our garden, they would begin fining us. They township code officer told us we had 7 days to respond to his letter. So, we called his office to talk to him, and what a coincidence, he just happened to go on vacation, so that we could not respond to him in the allotted time frame.

So, we ended up calling and talking to the township administrator. After a lengthy debate the township finally conceded and agreed to send an engineer to evaluate our property to prove what they were saying was true. Guess what? The engineer never came, the township never contacted us and on one fine day we received an envelope in the mail with 3 fines for nearly 700 each claiming that we were in violation for restricting/obstructing stormwater. The citations read that we had 10 days to respond and plead not guilty. Guess what? One of our citations were already 10 days old on the day that we received them. On the very next day, we received 4 more citations for again nearly 700 a piece claiming the same violations.

It still amazes me that this is the world we live in sometimes. People who hold positions of office just do whatever they want. They ignore laws and act as if they can get away with anything they want. Well, i decided to call every newspaper and television news station in my area. One newspaper is running the story tomorrow, and a second one just sent their photographer. I've had tv stations call me back and I am hoping it makes the evening news. At this point, we are going to have to get a lawyer. I know some of you could care less about an organic garden. But for me, this is about a whole lot more, such as property rights and personal freedom. And those two things are worth fighting for.

If he contacted the attorney, it would have been far far worse. These lawyers will make a huge big mess out of nothing for no reason but their own egos, on both sides. I deal with city bureaucrats all the time, they will run you over with their own lawyers. They all have joint lawyers with other cities, so they end up with an army of lawyers and technicians/inspectors that will chew you out and spit you out of the system. What you really need to do is hire an actual professional engineer yourself, a testing lab, have them actually get a report with real numbers and then have them try to argue against the real numbers. They won't know what to do and they won't find someone to risk their career over stupid shit like this. After that, THEN, you can get a lawyer. With these city bureaucrats, you have to deal with them this way.

This guy is exactly right. Odds are, a lawyer will just screw things up worse, that's what they get paid for..the bigger the brawl, the higher the fee. The more you can do yourself the better off you will be. Hire an engineer who understands the city ordinances, code. By the looks of the flatness of your and surrounding properties, runoff should not be an issue at all.

Take pictures of his license plate.
Rent the same car he has and print out a picture of his license plate so you can tape it over the one on the rental.
Now it looks like his car and license plate.
Drive through every red light camera you can find.
Go to shady areas where drug dealers and hookers hang out.....
Play his game. He wants to play dirty then play dirty.
Put a locking gas cap on his car and super glue his windshield wipers down.
Pay for strippers to show up to his house when his wife is home. Have them call his house when she is home....take pictures of different women in the rental car with his license plate.
He will be so busy with his wife busting his balls he won't have time to fuck with you.
Christ man, use your fucking brain and take the fight to him.

Fight them to the death.

Just shoot them, it's the only way.

You have to be very careful because social media and libel laws are a grey area and it sounds like your Commissioner knows how to play the game. You wouldn't want to say anything that could bite you in the ass.

People get carried away on twitter. If the media gets involved and it becomes a public issue, you might be tempted to post regular updates. Don't get into a mud slinging match.

Since he's a public figure, the best thing is to come up with a catch phrase that the media will latch onto...and he'll forever be attached to this garden scandal.