March Sadness: Guy freaks out after Delaware D.O.T. removes basketball hoop (VIDEO)

[Galileo]

Guy freaks out after Delaware D.O.T. removes basketball hoop (VIDEO)

Delaware Department of Transportation crews escorted by state police tore down basketball hoops this morning in two neighborhoods in Claymont amid protests from residents who say the nets aren't harming anyone.

WATCH VIDEO HERE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ZZHGO5sXw&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ZZHGO5sXw&feature=player_embedded

:lmao

[koriwhat]

thats some bs!

[Galileo]

thats some bs!

Be sure to tell your friends about this.

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[Donkeybong]

Why are they taking down the poles? I don't see what kind of problem they could cause. That guy has every right to be pissed.

[BRHornet45]

Why are they taking down the poles? I don't see what kind of problem they could cause. That guy has every right to be pissed.

son its because of the self righteous white people who run this country that walk around with their noses in the air and believe they have the right to tell everyone else how to live their lives. damn white people

[Galileo]

Why are they taking down the poles? I don't see what kind of problem they could cause. That guy has every right to be pissed.

They said the hoop was too close to the road, even though it had been there for 60 years. Bastards!

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[DJ Mbenga]

son its because of the self righteous white people who run this country that walk around with their noses in the air and believe they have the right to tell everyone else how to live their lives. damn white people

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[Galileo]

March Sadness: Couple fights for basketball hoop

(AP) – 2 days ago


DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware mom climbed atop her family's basketball hoop Friday in a short-lived bid to keep authorities from ripping it out and confiscating it.

Transportation workers and state police came to her neighborhood in Wilmington Friday morning to remove several basketball goals that officials said were too close to the roadway.

Several residents were sent letters last year warning them that the state's "Clear Zone" law prohibits trees and other objects from being within seven feet of the pavement's edge in a residential subdivision.

John and Melissa McCafferty said they'd gotten more than one warning letter, but that police cars and heavy machinery showed up without warning Friday morning to remove the hoops.

While their neighbors weren't home, the McCaffertys decided to fight back.

Melissa, 39, parked her van underneath the goal, climbed the pole and perched herself behind the backboard, risking arrest. McCafferty said she could only think about how sad her 10-year-old daughter would be about the removal.

"To be honest with you, I really wasn't thinking. All I was seeing was my 10-year-old's face," said McCafferty, who also has two teenagers who like to shoot hoops.

"They threatened to arrest me, and I told them that would be fine. I don't mind going to jail for my kids," she added.

When a news photographer showed up, police and work crews gave up trying to add McCafferty's hoop to several others they confiscated.

But they returned later, with a state police lieutenant again threatening to arrest the McCaffertys and impound their vehicles if they didn't give up the fight. John McCafferty said he was in the process of trying to get a restraining order, but that the lieutentant refused to allow him to contact a judge

A front-end loader yanked the pole out of the ground and put it in a dump truck that hauled it away.

"I have a feeling that when some of the neighbors come home, they're going to be devastated," Melissa said.

A Department of Transportation spokesman did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Friday.

John McCafferty, 46, said the pole has been on the property since the 1950s, long before the Clear Zone law was enacted, and that he believes it is exempted from the law.

In any event, McCafferty said, the basketball hoop sits in a quiet cul-de-sac with little traffic and has never been a source of contention until now.

"It's been there for 61 years, and it's created no problem until this year," he said.

The McCaffertys said they and other residents believe the controversy stems from an anonymous complaint from an elderly neighbor upset about having to slow down for kids playing in the neighborhood.

"This is obnoxious," he said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hiqdhRwgs5MMHcixTGurQ_oUjQYg?docId=058deb8d3 efc428bbe5374dd949a61bd

[Cry Havoc]

"an anonymous complaint from an elderly neighbor upset about having to slow down for kids playing in the neighborhood."

Unbelievable. If I was one of those kids, I'd be sure to play Frisbee or soccer EVERY DAY in the street from now on. Make that idiot have to slow down even more while they move off to the side instead of just a bit for the kids on the side of the road.

[Galileo]

This is one of those videos that could easily be captioned with "If this doesn't make you a libertarian you're a statist!" (VIDEO)
http://boston.com/community/blogs/less_is_more/2011/03/delaware_to_homeowner_you_cant.html

[gmartin02]

"an anonymous complaint from an elderly neighbor upset about having to slow down for kids playing in the neighborhood."

Unbelievable. If I was one of those kids, I'd be sure to play Frisbee or soccer EVERY DAY in the street from now on. Make that idiot have to slow down even more while they move off to the side instead of just a bit for the kids on the side of the road.

Responsible parents don't let their kids play in the street. When you got 2 ton vehicles driving around with people talking on their cell phones and texting you would have to be stupid to let you kids play in the street & play chicken with cars - kid vs. car - the kid always loses.

On the other hand, maybe it should be OK to let them play in the street - that way Darwin's process of natural selection will kill of the stupid ones so humans can keep evolving.

[baseline bum]

Just cops being the typical lying sacks of shit they are.

[baseline bum]

Responsible parents don't let their kids play in the street. When you got 2 ton vehicles driving around with people talking on their cell phones and texting you would have to be stupid to let you kids play in the street & play chicken with cars - kid vs. car - the kid always loses.

On the other hand, maybe it should be OK to let them play in the street - that way Darwin's process of natural selection will kill of the stupid ones so humans can keep evolving.

:lol It's not like they have a hoop up on fucking Wilshire Boulevard.

[Galileo]

Responsible parents don't let their kids play in the street. When you got 2 ton vehicles driving around with people talking on their cell phones and texting you would have to be stupid to let you kids play in the street & play chicken with cars - kid vs. car - the kid always loses.

On the other hand, maybe it should be OK to let them play in the street - that way Darwin's process of natural selection will kill of the stupid ones so humans can keep evolving.

it was a cul-de-sac, stupid. Maybe Darwin reads this column.

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[Galileo]

Government Bureaucrats Steal Basketball Hoops
http://www.prisonplanet.com/government-bureaucrats-steal-basketball-hoops.html

This made Prison Planet!