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90-yr old Medal of Honor recipient ordered to remove flagpole from front yard or face legal action. -- (link)

Posted by kelly (aka kelly) Dec 8 '09, 09:27

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HOA denied his request to erect flagpole in July, he put it up anyway. What say you, ST? (www2.timesdispatch.com)

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Since when is a flagpole an eyesore? -- nm - Fuzzy Dec 8, 09:49 4
- most of the time -- nm - zork Dec 8, 09:51 2
  - Seriously? I never realized people were so offended by flagpoles. I've always enjoyed seeing the flag flown from a flagpole rather than a bracket. -- nm - Fuzzy Dec 8, 09:53 1
    - eyesore doesn't have to mean you're offended. The other things though is that some people think that flags represent a lot of meaningless deaths. -- nm - zork Dec 8, 10:03
- It's a flag. The reason they exist is to call attention to themselves. -- nm - con_carne Dec 8, 09:50
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- You articulated what I was thinking. -- nm - con_carne Dec 8, 09:43 1
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I posted an earlier update on this story here a couple weeks back. Startlingly enough, I have to side with the HOA. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 09:36 13
- Yup. And like the article (HOA) says, "it's not about the flag, it's about a flag pole." -- nm - JaxSean Dec 8, 09:38 12
  - Word. Real simple...go get one of those flagpole thingys that screw into the side of your house and fly the flag there. -- nm - Jim Dec 8, 09:47
  - Yeah because everyone knows flagpoles are evil. -- nm - Loyola Dec 8, 09:38 10
    - They pretty much ruin the landscape, IMO -- nm - con_carne Dec 8, 09:41
    - HOA's ain't about evil. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 8, 09:39 8
      - They're about uniformity. *remembers the steps involved in building the fence* - kelly Dec 8, 09:41 7
        
        Not really uniformity, but an agreed upon set of guidelines to keep the value of the community up. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 8, 09:45 6
        
        that's precisely my problem with them. They create a warped sense of what makes a community valuable. -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 09:51 4
        
        I thought the people paying money (and less money for characteristics) create the sense of a community's value. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 8, 09:55 2
        
        nmb Will - kelly Dec 8, 09:57
        
        actually, you're confusing it with property values. - znufrii Dec 8, 09:57
        
        "Cla-a-a-a-ssic Peg." -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 09:53
        
        I honestly don't have a problem with that. - kelly Dec 8, 09:48
*shrug* He should remove it. He can fly the flag from a post on his house. - JaxSean Dec 8, 09:35 1
- I agree with you 100%. - kelly Dec 8, 09:38
I've seen homeowner's associations do much crazier things than this. I can't think of a reason why this rule would exist. -- nm - con_carne Dec 8, 09:31 16
- eyesore factor? - znufrii Dec 8, 09:34 15
  - if i buy a house and i want to put *anything* on my lawn, or paint my house *any* colour, i don't want someone telling me i can't. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 8, 09:39 8
    - You won't want that when the person next to you paints their house Neon Orange, which then drops the appraised value of *your* home $100,000, you will - JaxSean Dec 8, 09:49 1
      - see where i live (well, lived, the new neighbourhood is pretty sterile) people did stuff like this all the time. - Elf Andie Dec 8, 09:50
    - Thing is, if you buy a house in a planned community that has an HOA, you accept that someone *can* tell you that as condition of buying that house. - musubi Dec 8, 09:41 1
      - i get that. i just think they're insane pretty much in general. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 8, 09:41
    - If someone started a HOA here with rules on what you can and cannot do there would be just complete and utter war. Seriously. -- nm - Loyola Dec 8, 09:40 3
      - here too. (toronto at least, i'm sure in suburban areas they'd welcome it.) -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 8, 09:41 2
        
        (maybe i'll do a walk this weekend in my old neighbourhood and take some pics of the crazy stuff people have done. - Elf Andie Dec 8, 09:44 1
        
        If someone wants to live in a pink pyramid next door to me I wouldn't be bothered. - Loyola Dec 8, 09:49
  - And he can. Just not on a flag pole erected in his front yard. He can fly it on a flag post on his house. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 8, 09:36 4
    - which is nowhere near the same thing, imho. -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 09:41 2
      - Right...one is IN THE YARD; the other is ON THE HOUSE. - Will Hunting Dec 8, 09:43 1
        
        different in the sense that one has a formal ritual attached to raising/lowering the flag - znufrii Dec 8, 09:47
    - Of course, this is all reminding me of "Cars," and making me smile. :-) -- nm - con_carne Dec 8, 09:38
  - On second thought, I would consider such a thing an eyesore as well. Also, this is a HOA we're talking about. Who said anything about rights? -- nm - con_carne Dec 8, 09:36
i really hate your HOAs. They're insane. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 8, 09:29 1
- Word. So much for the land of the free. -- nm - Loyola Dec 8, 09:31
why do they hate America? - znufrii Dec 8, 09:28 1
- ~ For The Greater Good ~ -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 09:32

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