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Re: City Cracks Down On 9-Year-Old For Opening Free Library In His Front Yard

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On 2014-06-24, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/23/3451818/9yo-boy-little-library/#triple-feature
>
>   A nine-year-old boy in eastern Kansas who decided to open his own
>   little front-yard library and share books with his neighbors has been
>   shut down for violating a city zoning ordinance.
>
>   ...
>
>
>   On May 11, Mother's Day, Collins put out his own little free library,
>   complete with children's classics like Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle
>   in Time and Roald Dahl's The BFG.
>
>   But a month later, his parents received a letter from officials
>   saying the library violated the city's zoning ordinance and needed to
>   be removed or they would be fined. The city prohibits people from
>   having structures on their property that are detached from the
>   physical house.

Do you think it's a requirement to be an arsehole to work in zoning, or that
they become one as the years pass by?


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City Cracks Down On 9-Year-Old For Opening Free Library In His Front Yard Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-24 18:01 +0000
  Re: City Cracks Down On 9-Year-Old For Opening Free Library In His Front Yard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-24 21:20 +0000
    Re: City Cracks Down On 9-Year-Old For Opening Free Library In His Front Yard Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-24 22:14 +0000
    Re: City Cracks Down On 9-Year-Old For Opening Free Library In His Front Yard Scion <a.b@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-26 09:42 +0000
      Re: City Cracks Down On 9-Year-Old For Opening Free Library In His Front Yard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-28 07:21 +0000

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