Re: local codes and street hockey story

**"Yvonne Cunnington" y*@sympatico.ca**

Tom: Good god, you got a different story than I did. I felt so sorry for the
woman and how she was vilified by the media and her neighbours. She
certainly regretted speaking out in the end and becoming a national
laughingstock. I still think she had a case and that it turned into
something of a class war: between those who care about their properties and
those who think people who care about their properties are dolts.

You'd think that garden writers of all people would sympathize with a woman
who wants kids off her yard!!!  I suppose we should leave this topic before
it becomes a flame war! End of my say. I certainly agree that someone using
a local ordinance to try to stop container gardening is cranky!

Yvonne Cunnington, Ancaster, Ont
__________________________________
Tom wrote:

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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