A reader on Facebook, Michael Lurie, pointed out this latest “it seems like satire but it’s real” demonstration of the totalitarian madness that is sweeping our nation with its war on people, places, stuff, and ….. basketball nets. This onslaught of tyranny and control freakism is not confined only to the Feds, or even the states. No sooner did I write an update on the War on Lawn Darts when I was alerted to the War on Basketball Hoops.
In Claymont, Delaware, a team of jack-booted thugs in DOT trucks conducted patrols of property destruction in a neighborhood by driving through the area and scooping up basketball hoops and throwing them into the back of a dump truck to be hauled away to the landfill. Apparently, they were determined to be in violation of “right of way” laws because they were too close to the street. When residents saw what was going on, they parked their cars in front of the hoops, and one heroic woman even climbed to the backboard to keep the city from tearing it down.
Watch this YouTube of a local city soldier telling a man that his wife would be arrested for disorderly conduct if she climbed back up the pole to prevent them from taking it out. You’ll note that the State Police were present in order to help bring this basketball hoop crime ring under control. Watch the whole video, including the ruckus at the end when two residents are told to get off their own property and get back in the house while the police oversee the wrecking and taking of a pole after they were told they could keep it as long as it was removed. Rampant destruction for the sake of power and control. And of course, no compensation whatsoever for the taking of property.
