Comments on: When Do You Not Own Your Property?

By: D.C. Residents Criminalized for Parking in their Driveways « N.U.G.U.N. - New User of GUNs

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:13:17 +0000

[...] Residents Criminalized for Parking in their Driveways Snowflakes details a situation in Washington D.C. where residents have been ticketed and fined for parking in [...]

By: Matt Groom

Matt Groom — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:49:50 +0000

I’m not sure how I would react towards having my car ticketed for being parked in my own driveway, but it would probably involve violence of some kind.

By: Ian Argent

Ian Argent — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:05:46 +0000

That’s just insane. I’d say even for DC; but I lived in Fairfax Co for a number of years and could watch the follies

By: Crucis

Crucis — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:26:12 +0000

In most states, that would be called extortion. But, when you have a city run by criminals, it’s just business as usual.

By: teqjack

teqjack — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:34:14 +0000

So, if I visit D.C., I an park my car in that part of anyone’s driveway and have a picnic on their front lawn?

And no, this is NOT the same as people wanting to walk along a beach: in most of the cases where that has been fought, the beach (or at least that part of it between high and low tide coverage) is not owned by the adjoining property.

Alas, it IS similar to laws about sidewalks, which can range from fairly sensible to downright weird.

By: Steve W

Steve W — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:20:56 +0000

Wow. First I smack the desk in frustration at such a dumb and intrusive law, then I have to laugh.

When the NRA fights for a bill to force companies to allow CCW’s in a parking lot if locked in the car, some on the gun rights side complain that it’s unfair to the property owner, who should be able to be as anti-gun on their property as they want — and they do have a good logic. Nothing wrong for being on the side of rights, including property rights.

But compared to this … Wow. Just wow. How does a city in America get to this place?

By: Linoge

Linoge — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:03:54 +0000

Well, running a protection racket would be a little… too obvious, and since property is already taxed, well, why not tax it just a little more? And people wonder why that municipality has a negative population growth…