British Aspie boy & his PIRATE FLAG

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Poor little guy, just wanted to play in his back yard! SHAME on the "powers that be" who scolded his Mum & THANK GOD someone realized the problem & APOLOGIZED to the family!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-li ... e-17269511

Geez! Everyone's picking on us Aspies.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Stuff like that is why I hate living in a town.
The pettiness.......the pettiness....! (Read with 'Apocalypse Now' whisper)

Dear YippySkippy, I agree that this started with pettiness, but this was not just one person. One person complained to the local council, which evaluated the 'situation', then made a decision to take action against against a family who allowed their little boy's flagpole to be too tall. There were a number of adults who chose to treat people this way. Happens ALL tHE TIME in America...we don't call these groups 'Big Brother', as Orwell did, we call them 'Homeowners' Associations'.
They literally walk around neighborhoods, carrying clipboards, taking notes. If a tricycle is left out,visible, overnight, you get a note. If your garage door is left open, if you sit on your own front porch and drink a beer, if you plant the wrong kind of tree, you get a note! You are given a list of colors you can paint your own house!
I could go on, but I'm getting mad.....


Sylkat

The best solution would have been for the council to tell the complainant to stop moaning over something so petty.

for anyone who isnt from the UK, this is the sort of thing that happens on a daily basis.

people have been banned form feeding ducks in the park, people have spent tens of thousands of pounds on legal action because a fence is 3 centimeteres on the wrong side.

there are many many neightbours up and down the country who are just total losers. we live next door to one as well.

I hear you loud and clear, Dark Mage

Sylkat

(If you were aWizard instead of a Mage, you could make the world better by turning the Evil Neighbors into frogs...)

Its not picking on aspies but an excuse that seems to being made more and more as a reason for someone's actions. Everything from computer hacking to hoarding, to just badly behaved children.

It surprises me that the United Kingdom has planning regulations at all, considering the slightly messy and unorganised situation in some towns.
I thought it was bad where I live, as we seem to need formal permission from local authorities to cut down trees and put in new windows in houses we own, but this is just nitpicking.