RussellK wrote:Steve for the third time it really comes down to this. If you want to criticize something don't prop up a less than sympathetic example to support your case. Do you honestly think the public cares about a guy who's property is a nuisance? I'll tell you right now they won't care. I don't. But give an example like a widow who's going to lose her home because she has a loser son with stolen car parts in the basement and they'd be all over it. See how it works?
Well, for starters it is the article that came across my computer. I didn't seek it out.
I read it and shortly there after shared it.
I would hope the public would care, yes, yes, yes. I really would hope, and I guess I give the public too much credit. I would hope they would view things as right and wrong and would care irregardless of whether it is an older couple whose parents started a business just as much as the widow with a son with stolen parts in the basement.
This is why I think people let emotions rule and it is wrong.
Whether it is the widow with a son that stole parts and keeps them in the basement or the couple who is running a motel their parents started, who now in this tough economy happens to have had some people rent rooms who do or deal drugs and who some people pay for sex and use the rooms, which happens in probably all hotels. They catch people in Tampa for prostitution often, yet I don't see them trying to take the in debt big corporations hotel. In fact they probably don't even arrest and make a scene on the big corporations property.
So yes, I really would have hope people could get behind this. I don't find this couple as much worse than your example, and don't think that should matter...
Also, I wonder if I posted an article about a widow who was some how allowing, or didn't throw out her son who stole VW parts and kept them in her basement if I would have gotten some different comments. I could almost see people saying similar, things. She is a low life lady, she raised a bad kid, she was letting the kid stay in the house. The community was complaining about their parts being stolen, so let her house be taken.