Brickbat: Where at Least I Know I'm Free


Westland, Michigan, Mayor William Wild has apologized to Ken Dabelstein after a city ordinance officer seized 24 American flags he'd put in front of his produce business for Memorial Day. The officer claimed they violated the city's sign ordinance. City officials did not return the flags. But an anonymous Good Samaritan drove up the night after the flags were taken and put out more
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The flags are a sign of freedom, and to prove that that sign is false advertising, the city's agents removed them.
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"City Official"...per your handy thesaurus, "a douche bag of the first order"
and on a holiday weekend. That says 'dedication to douche baggery'.
Or dedication to that sweet, sweet holiday pay.
Some friends found a hole in their septic tank when it was pumped out, so dug a hole next to it for a same-size replacement to keep the switchover as simple and quick as possible. Some county inspector, driving his family somewhere for the weekend, saw the new septic tank on the highway, knew he hadn't issued any permits, and followed the truck just so he could issue a fine and stop-work order.
That's dedication! We need more Top.Men like that.
certainly he's licensed and qualified to look at hole in the ground where shit is stored...
I'm surprised somebody didn't end up buried under a new septic tank.
The Good Samaritan put the replacements up at half mast.
OT - Normally I'd post irrelevent crap to the lynx where they get lost in the shuffle, but today's my last day to finish moving out of my apartment and in to my house, so I won't be around for the lynx again.
So much manual labor just to get from point A to point B...
On-topic, I'm annoyed that my house doesn't appear to have a place to fly a flag, but any candidate spots would block the public sidewalk and jubject the banner to abuse.
Maybe you should feel out your new neighbors first before you raise the Warty Flag
C'mon man - a true patriot *paints his house as the American Flag*!
Memorial Day is for fallen soldiers. Some say heroes.
Interesting it took a civil servant; that is, a cop to pull this stunt. Cops these days couldn't hold a bag to a soldier who paid their dues to their country.
Absurd.
Correction: ordinance officer.
Now an ordnance officer, on the other hand............
*raises hand*
but, but....HEROS!!!
Bitch wouldn't have left with my flags and if she wanted to call 911 about it, that would have worked, too.
" city ordinance officer "
Hey ordinance officer! I've got some ordnance for ya.
Eliminationist rhetoric!
William Weld? Oh, William Wild.
oh remember all those taxes/fees he repealed while in MA...oh wait that never happened...just another douche bag pol looking to get back to the trough.
What I want to know is if that "ordinance officer" was keelhauled under a rusty tanker in Lake St. Clair?
Figuratively speaking, that is.
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