07-10-2008, 05:11 AM | #1 (permalink) | |
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Neighbours fight whiffle ball field, "they think we're a cult".
Greenwich residents have a plastic stick up their asses over what used to be a poison ivy ridden empty lot, but is now a whiffle ball field. From the New York Times:
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07-10-2008, 05:42 AM | #2 (permalink) | |
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When my wife got her first job out of college, she was looking for a place to live in southern Connecticut. She stopped in Greenwich, bought a sandwich, and went to sit on the green. Someone stopped her and asked if she was a resident; apparently, out-of-towners aren't allowed on the green?
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07-10-2008, 06:12 AM | #3 (permalink) |
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A little research has clued me in to Greenwich. I remember seeing Janeane Garafalo launch an invasion of tacky people on a city owned beach. That beach was in Greenwich. It was on TV Nation about 10 years ago, the same show that brought us a hectoring moralistic chicken.
Town residents showed up in force to basically tell Janeane and her crew to go away, the beach is private, for city residents only.
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07-10-2008, 06:13 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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OMFG!!! Kids actually going...outside...to...[shudder]play? On their own? With no sanctioning body? No, by God, this is going to end. Call the lawyers, we're going to stop this once...and...for...all!!
Further proof to me that some people simply need to have some common sense physically bitch slapped into them. Assuming that the kids did a halfway decent job on it and it's not an eyesore, and are aware that they may eventually have to give way to potential future legitimate land use...where the hell's the harm?
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07-10-2008, 06:20 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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A picture of the field is on the NYT website (also, our website wydaily.com).
They did a great job, inlcluding a backstop to lessen the noise.
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07-10-2008, 06:20 AM | #6 (permalink) | |
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I agree 100%. Let's complain that kids are destructive, have to much of a sense of entitlement, irresponsible, disrespectful, lazy, and overweight today. Send them to therapy, behaviour councilors, and enroll them in 17 "activities" a year. But God forbid they actually do something constructive, athletic, and creative on their own!!! The horror!! This travesty must be stopped!! Then we wonder why they grow up to be idiots.
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07-10-2008, 06:28 AM | #7 (permalink) | |
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That places sounds like it is in need of a good natural catastrophe while all the nice people and children leave.
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07-10-2008, 06:30 AM | #8 (permalink) | |
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Some day the uniting theory behind world peace will be that at one point or another in our lives we're all morons and that timely self-realization of those moments will improve everyone's quality of life. I just wish I'd realized that a little earlier this week....
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07-10-2008, 06:31 AM | #9 (permalink) |
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I think it looks good. Aren't we supposed to be encouraging kids to think and problem solve for themselves? Plus, they're outside socializing and getting exercise. In my city, the response would have been a lot different. Of course, around these parts kids are expected to play outside.
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07-10-2008, 06:52 AM | #10 (permalink) |
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In my city the lot would be for sale and somebody would build McMansion there. The main beef from residents seems to be that kids who are from other neighborhoods will be running wild through their yards, ravashing their women and taking their gold.
Places I've lived in VA, NC, and CO would encourage this. In KS, farmers would complain that the lot could be used for grain, but then the entire state is pretty much a sandlot.
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07-10-2008, 07:23 AM | #11 (permalink) |
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With all due respect, the property should be up to code. But I agree that the official reaction wasn't the best.
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07-10-2008, 04:29 PM | #12 (permalink) |
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Greenwich can go fuck itself. I live in a rich snob gold coast town, and even we think Greenwich are a bunch of rich snobs.
This is typical NIMBY shit that everyone in this fucking area pulls whenever there might be some disruption to their precious neighborhoods. In Stamford, which is a big city, there's a shitstorm over an aritficial turf soccer field because of environmental concerns Spoiler: translation: minorities play soccer more than white people and the residents don't want "those people" in their neighborhood, but they can't come out and say it. Anyone who's opposed to this field needs to go have a venti "shut the fuck up" latte and pull their head out of their ass. |
07-10-2008, 08:39 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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How did they piss off the whole town?
they did it like this!? they did it like that!? they did it with the whiffle ball bat?! Between this story, redlemon's experience, and the soccer thing MSD has informed us of i have come up with one conclusion. That conclusion is that Greenwich is an evil, soulless place that shall never see even a cent of my cash. I'm shall be keeping my distance from this Land-o-Demons in disguise. it really is a shame. You dont see kids doing stuff like this anymore.
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07-10-2008, 08:48 PM | #14 (permalink) |
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By the sounds of what everyone has said, Greenwich sounds like my kinda place. Any land for sale there?
I have been through towns like that before, its disgusting how people can even get this way. Its like the town on the other side of the hedge in the kids movie The Hedge |
07-10-2008, 10:56 PM | #15 (permalink) | |
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http://realestate.yahoo.com/Connecti...Search&redir=1 born and raised in CT - greenwich is known for being ridiculous, and MSD's spoiler is right on the money.......but if greenwich is bad, check out New Canaan.......... If you're not willing to spend $200+ on a frying pan, then you're a nobody in that fockin' town.
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07-11-2008, 04:50 AM | #17 (permalink) |
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I think it's high time we name Greenwich "America's Twat".
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07-11-2008, 08:43 AM | #18 (permalink) | |
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Mike D and the gang would be proud of you! love the reference. I see no harm in the field as long as it is not interfering with the use/enjoyment of any private home owners in the area. As a kid, we had a crusty old neighbour who would call the cops on me and my friends for playing road hockey out from of my house (she lived across the street). The cops would come by to appease her but she wanted to charge me with trespassing when the ball went up on her lawn. She even had her grandson come over to beat me up! Boy did he get his ass kicked lol. We eventually moved due to her behaviour in general. This lady would leave her living room and come outside to pick up a stray leaf that might have blown onto her yard...hey she cut her boulevard with scissors! |
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07-11-2008, 11:27 AM | #19 (permalink) |
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Fuck Greenwich and double-fuck canuckguy's old neighbor. Meh!
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07-11-2008, 11:36 AM | #20 (permalink) | |
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07-11-2008, 04:16 PM | #21 (permalink) |
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While alot of the attitude in Greenwich sounds like pure BS, you have to admit that at least SOME of this attitude (at least in general) has a basis. What happens the first time some idiot kid hurts himself, and some idiot parent sues? I sincerely doubt drainage or property values is any worse off if it was a field full of poison ivy before, but inviting use without considering responsibility seems like it's asking for trouble. It may be stupid, but it took a long stupid chain to get there and the nanny-ball has been rolling too hard for too long to consider it easily stopped now.
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07-11-2008, 04:40 PM | #22 (permalink) | |
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When I was a kid we played football in vacant lots all the time and never caught any grief from it. Granted, we didn't have to clear any excessive growth, and we didn't build anything, we just played. We'd have killed for this kind of thing at the time. Awesome idea, shitty outcome.
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07-11-2008, 10:11 PM | #24 (permalink) | |
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now stratford and milford? salerno's and papa's pizza respectively. that's good eats. want a burger? danny's drive in or the merritt canteen in BPT - fuhgeddaboudit. school me please, cause I am tired of roly poly, taco bell, francesco's and sandwiches on hard rolls in norwalk..........
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07-12-2008, 01:28 AM | #25 (permalink) |
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We need people like these kids in the REAL Greenwich, where they're building the stadia for the 2012 Olympics - send those kids over here, we'll get them working...
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07-12-2008, 03:37 AM | #26 (permalink) | |
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Kansas is "country", but it's mostly pretty, especially seeing a remote field of sunflowers.
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07-12-2008, 04:49 PM | #27 (permalink) | |
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I've been around here plenty, and seen lots of farmers, just never met any. However, the point is, you're making a very broad generalization when it simply isn't the case. Like I stated earlier, we used to play in empty lots all the time, and I never, ever had someone pull up on a tractor and tell me or my friends that the space we were using could or should be used for grain, corn, wheat or anything else for that matter. We were "staying out of trouble" and not "running the streets" and that's all that mattered.
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07-12-2008, 06:41 PM | #28 (permalink) | |
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Good God, just the mentioning of Danny's Drive In is enough to give me a mild hard attack, but damn is it good. Shame everything else on Ferry Blvd. sucks though.
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Here's a 3 part update...
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08-04-2008, 02:18 PM | #30 (permalink) |
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Wow. These kids just can't get a break, can they?
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08-04-2008, 05:41 PM | #31 (permalink) |
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Wow, that article has both sides to the story. It makes way more sense now. Closing the other field was a no brainer and those kids are very lucky that the town was so patient and made efforts to find them another location and foot the bill.
Those are some very lucky kids.
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08-06-2008, 04:49 AM | #32 (permalink) |
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Yes, now they can be gaurded from injury by asbestos.
Perhaps the town could fund a program to bubble wrap all children. I'm happy that neighbors feel forced to purchase surveillance cameras. Less money they could use to snort cocaine off a hooker's ass. But they will never get it.
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