Re: Assistance dealing with local codes adverselyimpactinggardening

**Thomas Olenio t*@sentex.net**

Hi,

The media covered both sides of the story, and she did come off as a
crank.  By alienating the children, the parents and the community she only
made the situation worse.  Her actions escalated the issue.

What her garden suffered could hardly be called abuse, and there are
things she could have done to mitigate the problem, but chose only to act
like a crank.

A "crank" is known by their actions, and no amount of rhetoric changes
what the actions were.

Exposing a cranks "smallness" through the media is a viable solution for
the container gardener's problem.

Later,
Tom

--
Southwest Ontario
Canada Hardiness Zone 5b
(similar to US zone 5)

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Yvonne Cunnington wrote:

> Tom wrote: In Canada street hockey is as common as a mowed lawn.  One old
> crank decided she did not like it on her street and complained.  The media
> got hold of it, and the crank has moved, and the kids are still playing
> hockey.
> ______________________________________________________________________
> That "crank" in Canada, in my home town of Hamilton, Ont., was a woman who
> objected to the puck landing in her garden and the galumphing kids stomping
> on her plants to get it back. My sympathies were and are solidly with her
> and her plants. You wouldn't believe the abuse she suffered after she
> objected to kids wrecking her garden. Some of the worst abuse came from the
> parents who didn't seem to feel that their kids should respect other folks'
> properties. There are two sides to every story!
>
> Yvonne Cunnington, Ancaster, Ont
>
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