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Here's how to report your neighbor for not clearing their sidewalk
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Anonymous
I haven't gotten mail all week even though my sidewalk and the path to my mailbox was cleared on Monday. |
Anonymous
What do you have to do with PP who doesn't want to shovel bc it's only for the dog walkers? |
Anonymous
That person is an entitled jerk, just like the starters of so many of these threads. It just reminded me that USPS hasn't been delivering. "Neither snow nor rain..." seems to be one more relic of the past. |
Anonymous
Absolutely ridiculous. The county is in a budget crunch and they pass up a golden revenue generating opportunity like this? That is fiscal malpractice. They could issue literally tens of thousands of small $25-$100 fines right now. This could easily generate 1.5-2 million dollars for the county. And what do they do instead? Suspend the law. Outrageous. |
Anonymous
I agree. This should be low hanging fruit for fines. |
Anonymous
No one likes a hall monitor, OP. You're the worst kind of neighbor. |
Anonymous
| My snowblower broke down clearing the county walk. Can I collect from the county for the repair bill? |
Anonymous
+1 YOU ARE THE WORST OP. THE WORST. |
Anonymous
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I'd rather have a line for reporting dog owner who walk on your lawn while their dog is crapping on your lawn. Need that hotline.
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Anonymous
No hotline needed. I just tell them to please use the median and laugh inside at their sheepish responses. My favorites are the ones who double down on what they are doing. |
Anonymous
In theory, that sounds quite reasonable, and even generous. The problem is that life tends to be a lot messier than theory and your definite categories of shovelers, those who are able to make arrangements to be excused because they aren’t capable, and deadbeats who should shovel but don’t, fails to account for those who may generally be capable of shoveling and usually would but have some sort of temporary emergency. If someone has the stomach flu and is vomiting into a toilet until they are too weak to stand, was stranded somewhere and can’t get home, has a child, parent or even themselves in the hospital with a medical emergency, etc., they’re not going to be in any shape to make sure their sidewalk gets shoveled. Maybe they even tried to shovel, and immediately slipped on the ice, breaking a hip, or had a heart attack. The point is that you most likely don’t know anything about the neighbors in question, much less what their immediate circumstances might be. Before you jump to conclusions about their character, and not only judge them but take it upon yourself to have them penalized, you might extend a little grace and consider that they may actually be nice people who, through no fault of their own, simply can’t cope with anything right now, let alone something as taxing ad shoveling snow. I certainly hope you’re able to continue shoveling snow both for yourself and also those others who need assistance, for many years to come. Unfortunately your kindness doesn’t grant immunity from misfortune and you may someday find yourself in an unforeseen predicament which impedes you from fulfilling your own shoveling obligation. |
Anonymous
We do it for the kids and neighbors who need to use the sidewalk, not for the person who chose to be unneighborly. |
Anonymous
| Uh, have you noticed that the DC government has done jack shit since Sunday to get rid of the snow? Maybe focus on that? |
Anonymous
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I want people to not have heart attacks.
You're just a horrible person, OP. And yes, I shoveled it all, despite getting palpitations. |
Anonymous
I saw them using bobcats and diggers to clear sidewalks, but that's the first thing I have see in days. |