OP, walk over to whomever owns it. Offer them $50 to buy it. Buy it. Then, get it hauled away.
If it bothers you so much, pay some to have things the way you want. |
on second thought ... pp again (18:29). As part of the buying process, do reveal the hoop's future. |
If the neighbor moves the basketball hoop into their driveway, it'll get it out of the street, but it won't help with the noise that was mentioned.
When I was a teenager, my parents poured a concrete pad in our backyard and put up a basketball hoop. I shot baskets there almost every day after school for 4 years. It was therapeutic and helped me get through high school. I'm sorry my neighbors probably hated hearing it. |
No where have you mentioned talking to the neighbor whose house it is in front of. So it’s very likely the hoop owners asked the hoop hosters if they could place the hoop in front of their house — I’m assuming there is some difference in grade or traffic flow or whatnot thst makes sense. You have no idea, just upset that a hoop is on the street. It’s getting used, apparently by the whole community (which is often the intent) which is nice for some people, clearly not for you. Do you have kids? The reason it’s on the street is two fold — you said there is limited parking, which means the owners likely want to keep their drive way free to park because the street can be limited. The basketball does consume some parking space area but much less than a car so may not really impact capacity greatly but if the street is always full, you might get the county to move it. Just take regular photos. But they put it on public land for the public to use, so you really need to show harm to community. Is this Lyon Village? What else has such limited parking with SFH? But you are unlikely to prevail here, these are all over Arlington and this one gets used. |
Anyone arguing otherwise doesn’t respect your personal preferences. And that is ALL this argument is about. There is a well-used basketball hoop somewhere on OP’s street, and SHE would prefer that it not be there because… she prefers to have some random car there instead. |
Yes, that is the status quo. You can believe that you do not like the status quo and others are free to be happy with status quo (including thinking that cars and parking are not evil). |
If the status quo ain’t the actual law, then Too bad, so sad. Times change. Or do you still want segregated neighborhoods, too? Seriously, get over yourself. The kids just want to shoot hoops. |
Progressives compare everything they prefer to fighting for the civil rights movement but this is peak use. |
No, they did not ask the neighbor to put it in front of their house, I guess because they didn't want to block parking in front of their own house. How is that ok? |
The new world order is everyone just does what they want? Well fine, I (this isn't OP, another person BTW) don't want the hoop in front of my house so I can just take it and thow it away. |
Would you not think your car would be damaged? I would bounce the ball off your hood. Or key the car or knife the tires? A conversation seems like a more appropriate path. |
No --- because then they will throw baseballs and rocks through your windows. Talk to them. |
Talk to them--so we can have a discussion of rhetorical questions to force the other side to feel stupid and finally realize they are wrong, as is the pattern here? That doesn't work. In the new world order, no excuses (which the rhetorical questions are when you think about it), just do what you want. I'll take the hoop away, they will throw rocks, so what? |
Here’s a question that is not rhetorical (since rhetorical questions clearly trigger you): Why does the presence of a basketball hoop in a certain spot on the public street (rather than a random car) bother you so much? How does it affect your life? (Sorry, that’s two questions.) |
I bet the school has a parking lot, too, yet people keep parking their personal vehicles right in the street. SMDH. |