Today’s installment of Gov’t Gone Wild features the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The City of Milwaukee is digging in its heels in its attempt to foreclose on the home of a man who failed to pay a fine for parking an unlicensed van in his parents’ driveway.The city filed a response Thursday asking the judge to deny the request from Peter Tubic and his attorney to set aside the foreclosure or reduce his fine to the original $50.
“Giving special treatment out of sympathy to one property owner or waiving the statutory requirements of one property owner because his case was reported by the media, when there are dozens of others whose homes may have been foreclosed upon after personal difficulties, would destroy the integrity” of the foreclosure process, attorneys for the city wrote in their motion.
That’s right, boys and girls. Keep a junker in the driveway, lose your house.
I’ve seen worse junkers in front of better homes. This guy thinks I’m all wet for thinking that a city shouldn’t foreclose on people’s homes over a junker in the driveway.
In reality, this was a story about a man with a transparent excuse for not paying his fine. And now he’s been turned into a martyr.
No, he isn’t being turned into a martyr, Mr. Murphy. He’s just another in a long line of citizens that are being abused by overzealous bureaucrats. Check this out:
He could have paid the $50 fine, but didn’t. From then on a city inspector would come to the house and check on whether the vehicle had been taken care of and issue another warning, with interest added and a higher fee charged. Each letter told the amount owed, the amount it would rise to after the next visit from the inspector, and a warning that the home could eventually be foreclosed. All intended to send the message to pay the fine. The city sent such warning letters at least 15 times.
Sure, he could have paid the fine and removed the van. And he should have. But let me ask you this: Is there a better use of taxpayer money than sending a city employee around to look at this junker at least 15 times?
It’s about priorities, Mr. Murphy. Somehow, I think that the City of Milwaukee would be better served if they focused on stopping this stuff?
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Let’s declare whatever city council building Milwakee uses a junkard and foreclose on it.
Just another busy-bodied bureaucrat with too much ‘authoritah.’
Suggestion to prospective homeowners: look for a place with a large backyard, lots of trees, and a privacy fence. And if you have a junker you want to keep for whatever reason, park it in the back yard or in the garage.
Otherwise you’re begging to get harassed for stupid, petty intrusions on your property rights by the HOA and, more specifically, some crazy middle aged hussy who has nothing better to do than report her neighbors for “violations” about where they put their trash cans.
Every neighborhood has one of them.
Well BJ, at least you’re right
somemost of the time. This a waste of taxpayer’s money, and a perfect example pencil-neck fascism.The city could have sent a tow truck and stole the van, instead they bring in a bureaucrat and steal the house.
God Bless America.
yeah thats a good point i bet the “junker” is worth 50 bucks forclose on that.
#4 crazy
Yeah. Why don’t they confiscate the van and sell it if it’s such a big deal.
HOA story:
We lived in our last house about 15 years. For the first 13 or 14, we kept our trash cans nesxt to the driveway back by the garage. So did most people on our street. One week, just about everybody gets a letter from the HOA, telling us all that our trashcans had to be kept out of sight. Everyone complies for about a week or two, then the trashcans migrated back to where they had always been.
Where oh where is the ACLU in all this? Looks like the gentleman in the pic is holding two canes. Isn’t this discrimination against the disabled? And why does the van need a license if it’s been on private proerty rather than on public property?
These cities will continue until someone finally gets this kind of thing to a higher court. Hopefully that court will be full of reasonable people ( don’t hold your breath). Taking people’s homes for such a minor thing as this, is beyond the pale. I hope he ends up getting millions and the city coffers are depleted.
Hope Bill White or Rick Perry don’t read this story, might give them new ideas for sucking money out of us taxpayers
Didn’t Lee Pee Brown ever think of this as a means of funding his overspent budgets?
This is a very sad story. I pray that the outcome is victorious for the homeowner./spittles
And Obama wonders why some of us cling to our guns and religion….