Brickbat: Everywhere a Sign

Georgesheldon / Dreamstime

Code enforcement in Rockland, Maine, has threatened Susan Reitman with up to $1,000 a day in fines if she doesn't remove two pro-Donald Trump banners from the gate to her home. City ordinances say residential signs can be no more than two square feet. Her signs are three feet by two feet.

Comments

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

Is Reason actually suggesting that 2 x 2 = 6?

THE PARTY IS EVERYWHERE!

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

Wait, does 2 square feet = 2 feet by 2 feet? Wouldn’t that be 4 square feet? Shit.

[Tom Bombadil]

Strider, did you hit the Prancing Pony a bit early today?

2 square feet means 2 square feet, not 2 feet square.

A sign 2 x 1 would equal 2 square feet.

Her sign is 3×2 equals 6 square feet.

More soberly, why is Reason posting this in particular ? Is this an egregious example of The Man stifling free speech? Her city has a code and she broke it. The Trumpness is irrelevant.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Her city has a code and she broke it.

You know who else had an unbreakable code?

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

Hitler, until the Polacks got their mitts on it.

[Libertarian]

DaVinci?

[Brian]

Podesta?

[Colossal Douchebag]

The Navajo?

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

When I first saw the Brickbat I just read “2 square feet” as “2 x 2”. My second comment was me realizing that 2 x 2 would be 4 square feet. Hence the profanity, raging at the unfairness of it all, *possibly* a few tears which I won’t mention, etc.

[Radioactive]

drama is easy, maths is hard

[Lily Bulero]

I doubt this ordinance was passed with Trump in mind…but perhaps there was an anti-Trump snitch who called the authorities about this?

[Hank Stamper]

Maybe or Susan is the neighborhood snitch and her neighbors are getting their revenge for her crying about their lawn being 2cm high.

[Rebel Scum]

Land of the “free”…

[Longtobefree]

Seven comments on sign math, three on free speech.
Welcome to reason in the morning.

[Inigo Montoya]

At least Reason in the Morning has no obnoxious DJs who play one song and 3 commercials for every 30 minutes of sexual innuendo and juvenile humor.

[BearOdinson]

That is why there is Sirius/XM.

[Memory Hole]

You lost the sign war lady, get over it.

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

Hey man, Churchill had his Dardanelles, JFK had his Bay of Pigs, I had fuzzy math at 3:30 (Central time) in the morning. Every great man has his failings.

[Memory Hole]

Trump loves building restrictions so this lady can suck a dick.

[Aloysious]

Signs

Government Personnel

[Jerryskids]

Nobody’s going to mention Trump’s wrapping himself in the flag with that yuge banner at Mar-a-Lago that violated the sign ordinance? It may be a stupid law, but that’s what you get for living in a community where community values are strictly enforced by the community busy-bodies. And I’d be willing to bet this lady’s done her share of sticking her nose in other people’s business. Let’s see her neighbor exercise his freedom of speech by installing a display of broken-down appliances on his front lawn and see how fast her ideas about free speech change.