Kansas Boy Forced to Remove Little Free Library From His Yard

Looking at it, real close, the town of Leawood should reconsider the fact that this is not a "Structure". It rival a cardboard box since it has NO FRAMEWORK! These idiots and their dumb-ass rules.

Fuck... I live HERE...

Time to attend a city hall meeting.

"The city received two complaints."

Neighbors can get on my damn nerves.

If I was that kid, I'd leave a bag of shit on everyone of their front porches.

Except that you wouldn't know who it was because it is always an "anonymous" complaint.

Fuck... I live HERE...

Time to attend a city hall meeting.

They should just run a single long 2 by 4 from the roof of their house to the shed and tell the city "There, it's connected...now fuck off."

Spencer Collins, 9, loves to read. The idea of sharing his love of books with his neighbors thrills him. So with the help of his parents, he set up a Little Free Library in their yard in Leawood, Kansas.

But the town of Leawood decided the birdhouse-sized library was an illegal structure and the family was ordered to remove it.

The family moved the Little Free Library into their garage. But they are looking to take the issue with City Hall, reported ABC affiliate KMBC.

The little library, which was made by the boy’s grandfather, was capable of holding a few books. Like the Little Free Libraries across the country, it had a “take a book, leave a book” note taped on its door. The bookshelf sat next to a bench on the family's front yard, which was intended to provide a spot for readers to enjoy their books.

"When we got home from vacation, there was a letter from the city of Leawood saying that it was in code violation and it needed to be down by the 19th or we would receive a citation," Spencer's mother, Sarah Collins told KMBC.

The City of Leawood bans buildings that aren't attached to homes. Since the library was a free standing structure in the family's front yard, it was considered illegal. The city has received two complaints regarding the library, according to Richard Coleman, Leawood's director of community development.

Library in your yard?! Can't be doing that shit in a free country! Kid totally got what he deserved.

/sarc

Day by day this country is starting to feel more and more like Afghanistan or Nazi Germany... Or Nazi Germanistan. Sadly, we all just roll over and take it, when we should be doing everything in our power to deal with the problem - purging our government from the top to the bottom - Whitehouse to state to city.

Who are the two miserable fucks who complained about it? It's such a cute, tidy little free standing box. How could that possibly be a 'building'?

I think more to the point is that the library was filled with shit books like Game of Throns, bibbles and Little Tattooed Dragon Girl books. I'd shut that little fucker down too based on that.

Wait until they ban books. It's coming.

The issue is probably that some stranger could walk into that garage, get accidentally but heinously hurt (say an ax fell on his or her head), and sue to little boy's family for a million dollars. It's to protect the family from their own naivete.

Spencer Collins, 9, loves to read. The idea of sharing his love of books with his neighbors thrills him. So with the help of his parents, he set up a Little Free Library in their yard in Leawood, Kansas.

But the town of Leawood decided the birdhouse-sized library was an illegal structure and the family was ordered to remove it.

The family moved the Little Free Library into their garage. But they are looking to take the issue with City Hall, reported ABC affiliate KMBC.

The little library, which was made by the boy’s grandfather, was capable of holding a few books. Like the Little Free Libraries across the country, it had a “take a book, leave a book” note taped on its door. The bookshelf sat next to a bench on the family's front yard, which was intended to provide a spot for readers to enjoy their books.

"When we got home from vacation, there was a letter from the city of Leawood saying that it was in code violation and it needed to be down by the 19th or we would receive a citation," Spencer's mother, Sarah Collins told KMBC.

The City of Leawood bans buildings that aren't attached to homes. Since the library was a free standing structure in the family's front yard, it was considered illegal. The city has received two complaints regarding the library, according to Richard Coleman, Leawood's director of community development.

I am the glad that you are happy to see my point! You people need tyranny and censorship in your lives as evident in how you construct your thoughts and sentences here on forum. All that programming you all get from your fancy televisions is making your heatmeat soft and stupid and you don't realize it because you eat that programming up like a giant fat white woman with retarded tits in line at Walmart for Big Macks.

I live 20 minutes from there. Leawood is the most expensive suburb of Kansas City. Pretty much the entire town is a Home Owners association. The structure is against Leawood code plain and simple. While I personally think its silly, this family should have known better than to place that in their front yard in Leawood of all places.