HOA pool ban for prior vandalism of HOA property

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here— I can’t believe this is a news story, and instead of going to the news to complain, maybe the parents should examine their kids behavior. Expecting community service to be the consequence is pretty entitled as it requires supervision and coordination on someone else’s time.

To clarify: according to NBC4 the boys vandalized a little free library on HOA property, not a public library.

Entitled? FFS

What do you want the punishment to be? Banned for 20 years?

DP

Arrested for damage to public property.

The parents can coordinate the community service if they wanted — this happened in NOV! Instead they waited until the pools open to complain to the news about the ban and state they wanted community service. It is entitled to expect someone else to coordinate it for their kids.

That's not how it went down.

[Anonymous]

It seems the HOA is on quite the power trip. The punishment is ridiculous. Banned for 7 years for something not remotely related to the pool?

Yes, there should absolutely be consequences but the punishment is way over the top.

It’s a little free library people not an actual library. Pay replace it, sure, but we’re not taking thousands of dollars.

Sounds like some of you people want these kids banned for good. Teens, even good ones, can be idiots at times. It’s called growing up and learning from your actions.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like the parents thought they could just saunter on into the community pool in June and got the door slammed in their face.

Leave your vandal kids at home and you can go.

“We agreed that the kids should have to do community service in our neighborhood,” said Joni Blue, mother of one of the boys.

Instead, the HOA Board issued the no trespass orders in November.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here— I can’t believe this is a news story, and instead of going to the news to complain, maybe the parents should examine their kids behavior. Expecting community service to be the consequence is pretty entitled as it requires supervision and coordination on someone else’s time.

To clarify: according to NBC4 the boys vandalized a little free library on HOA property, not a public library.

Entitled? FFS

What do you want the punishment to be? Banned for 20 years?

DP

Arrested for damage to public property.

Since when are little free libraries public property?? Pretty sure no government is putting them up.

What does the owner of the library say??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone notice they were banned from the private pool and the park but their offense was to the public library? Another case of privileged children not getting a record or facing consequences.

I remember when we found out Sarah Palin's son had slashed the tired of school buses on school property in high school, wasn't arrested or punished, then what do you know - 5 years later as an adult he's attacking his father with a gun and has multiple arrest records.

It wasn’t a public library, it was a little free library on HOA grounds.

[Anonymous]

Honestly 7 years sounds a bit much for an 11 year old kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems the HOA is on quite the power trip. The punishment is ridiculous. Banned for 7 years for something not remotely related to the pool?

Yes, there should absolutely be consequences but the punishment is way over the top.

It’s a little free library people not an actual library. Pay replace it, sure, but we’re not taking thousands of dollars.

Sounds like some of you people want these kids banned for good. Teens, even good ones, can be idiots at times. It’s called growing up and learning from your actions.

If they were banned for 7 years until they're 18, this is definitely not the first instance of those particular boys being trouble makers. One of them has been swimming there since he was 4 - and I'm guessing the parents just let them spiral out of control with no consequences until they did something on video record that the HOA and rest of the community could use to ban them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems the HOA is on quite the power trip. The punishment is ridiculous. Banned for 7 years for something not remotely related to the pool?

Yes, there should absolutely be consequences but the punishment is way over the top.

It’s a little free library people not an actual library. Pay replace it, sure, but we’re not taking thousands of dollars.

Sounds like some of you people want these kids banned for good. Teens, even good ones, can be idiots at times. It’s called growing up and learning from your actions.

+1 This HOA is great on many issues, but a couple of members like to throw their weight around and threaten legal action over minor disputes that can easily be resolved by talking to someone and compromising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems the HOA is on quite the power trip. The punishment is ridiculous. Banned for 7 years for something not remotely related to the pool?

Yes, there should absolutely be consequences but the punishment is way over the top.

It’s a little free library people not an actual library. Pay replace it, sure, but we’re not taking thousands of dollars.

Sounds like some of you people want these kids banned for good. Teens, even good ones, can be idiots at times. It’s called growing up and learning from your actions.

If they were banned for 7 years until they're 18, this is definitely not the first instance of those particular boys being trouble makers. One of them has been swimming there since he was 4 - and I'm guessing the parents just let them spiral out of control with no consequences until they did something on video record that the HOA and rest of the community could use to ban them.

And you would be wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems the HOA is on quite the power trip. The punishment is ridiculous. Banned for 7 years for something not remotely related to the pool?

Yes, there should absolutely be consequences but the punishment is way over the top.

It’s a little free library people not an actual library. Pay replace it, sure, but we’re not taking thousands of dollars.

Sounds like some of you people want these kids banned for good. Teens, even good ones, can be idiots at times. It’s called growing up and learning from your actions.

If they were banned for 7 years until they're 18, this is definitely not the first instance of those particular boys being trouble makers. One of them has been swimming there since he was 4 - and I'm guessing the parents just let them spiral out of control with no consequences until they did something on video record that the HOA and rest of the community could use to ban them.

And you would be wrong.

Really? Where the parents when these tweens were destroying a community asset? Surely they were taught right from wrong?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems the HOA is on quite the power trip. The punishment is ridiculous. Banned for 7 years for something not remotely related to the pool?

Yes, there should absolutely be consequences but the punishment is way over the top.

It’s a little free library people not an actual library. Pay replace it, sure, but we’re not taking thousands of dollars.

Sounds like some of you people want these kids banned for good. Teens, even good ones, can be idiots at times. It’s called growing up and learning from your actions.

If they were banned for 7 years until they're 18, this is definitely not the first instance of those particular boys being trouble makers. One of them has been swimming there since he was 4 - and I'm guessing the parents just let them spiral out of control with no consequences until they did something on video record that the HOA and rest of the community could use to ban them.

And you would be wrong.

You seem to have the inside track. You’re saying neither of these kids has ever been in trouble in the community before?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems the HOA is on quite the power trip. The punishment is ridiculous. Banned for 7 years for something not remotely related to the pool?

Yes, there should absolutely be consequences but the punishment is way over the top.

It’s a little free library people not an actual library. Pay replace it, sure, but we’re not taking thousands of dollars.

Sounds like some of you people want these kids banned for good. Teens, even good ones, can be idiots at times. It’s called growing up and learning from your actions.

If they were banned for 7 years until they're 18, this is definitely not the first instance of those particular boys being trouble makers. One of them has been swimming there since he was 4 - and I'm guessing the parents just let them spiral out of control with no consequences until they did something on video record that the HOA and rest of the community could use to ban them.

And you would be wrong.

Really? Where the parents when these tweens were destroying a community asset? Surely they were taught right from wrong?

Latchkey kids, gramps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems the HOA is on quite the power trip. The punishment is ridiculous. Banned for 7 years for something not remotely related to the pool?

Yes, there should absolutely be consequences but the punishment is way over the top.

It’s a little free library people not an actual library. Pay replace it, sure, but we’re not taking thousands of dollars.

Sounds like some of you people want these kids banned for good. Teens, even good ones, can be idiots at times. It’s called growing up and learning from your actions.

If they were banned for 7 years until they're 18, this is definitely not the first instance of those particular boys being trouble makers. One of them has been swimming there since he was 4 - and I'm guessing the parents just let them spiral out of control with no consequences until they did something on video record that the HOA and rest of the community could use to ban them.

And you would be wrong.

DP. LOL, sure. Tell us all about what complete angels they were until this moment when something else took possession of their minds and forced them to destroy HOA property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems the HOA is on quite the power trip. The punishment is ridiculous. Banned for 7 years for something not remotely related to the pool?

Yes, there should absolutely be consequences but the punishment is way over the top.

It’s a little free library people not an actual library. Pay replace it, sure, but we’re not taking thousands of dollars.

Sounds like some of you people want these kids banned for good. Teens, even good ones, can be idiots at times. It’s called growing up and learning from your actions.

If they were banned for 7 years until they're 18, this is definitely not the first instance of those particular boys being trouble makers. One of them has been swimming there since he was 4 - and I'm guessing the parents just let them spiral out of control with no consequences until they did something on video record that the HOA and rest of the community could use to ban them.

And you would be wrong.

You seem to have the inside track. You’re saying neither of these kids has ever been in trouble in the community before?

I think one of the parents found the thread.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone else think the 7 year ban was the HOA’s way of saying move? Surely no family would want to remain in a community where their kid can’t go to the community pool