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MARCH MADNESS: NANNY STATE RUNS AMOK IN DELAWARE AS GOVT ARBITRARILY TEARS DOWN 60-YEAR-OLD BASKETBALL HOOPS
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.
Originally posted by GodofWar411
what is the back round to this story why are they pulling the hoops what is the legal reasons for this
sorry to post a video and go NWO or Sheep and not explain anything is kind of attention grabbing junk no S or F
more back round please
MARCH MADNESS: NANNY STATE RUNS AMOK IN DELAWARE AS GOVT ARBITRARILY TEARS DOWN 60-YEAR-OLD BASKETBALL HOOPS
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.
Originally posted by SmokeandShadow
Oh, if only the neighbors had guns and balls. I wonder how it would have went down had a militia surrounded the police and demanded they leave the area...