Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 23:45:16 PDT
Reply-To: Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Dumb question NO... Outrage yes!!
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One solution would be to put your vehicle under a car cover so if the
neighbors don't like it they can't see it as much --- or buy a bunch of
trees still in their pots and surround the vehicle to protect it from the
view of passerbys... or knock a hole in a wall and park it in your
bedroom... --- or fix it and park it directly infront of the house of the
neighbor that complained... or let them tow it and take pictures of the
event with cop cars and tow truck and then hire someone to make a mural of
this event on your house so that all might see the story of how you were
mistreated....
>From: Keith Olsen <VintagePkr@aol.com>
>Reply-To: VintagePkr@aol.com
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Dumb question NO... Outrage yes!!
>Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 01:00:18 EDT
>
>In a message dated 8/6/00 9:17:54 PM, bm30@uswest.net writes:
>
><< Yes. In the city of Minneapolis as part of the urban cleanup they can,
>and
>
>do, tag and tow "inoperable" ( those under repair for more then a week) and
>
>abandoned vehicles. You can work on your own cars as long as you keep them
>
>in a garage. My single car garage was built in 1923, T Model Fords were
>
>smaller then Vanagons, so it doesn't fit inside. And I went out of town
>
>before I could finish. >>
>
>They tried to pull that on a friend of mine (in NY) who had a tag-less
>splitty in his driveway that his neighbors didn't like the looks of. When
>he
>got hassled by the local authorities, he got it registered as a "farm"
>vehicle and was issued these limited use "farm" plates and since it was now
>legally (and cheaply) tagged, his problems were over.
>Different states have different laws and this was a few years ago... but
>the
>point is loopholes can be found! ie: carcover maybe?
>keith
>
>BTW, how much does it have to move on a daily basis to prove to the
>authorities that it is being used? 1 inch? 1 foot? one end of the driveway
>to the other? do they feel the engine to see if it's warm? can people in
>your town go on vacation for more than a week with out having to hire a
>"car
>mover" like people in NYC would hire a dog walker??? The more I think
>about
>this, the more outrageous and police-state-like it sounds!!!!
>keith
>87 vanagon
>85 diesel golf
>79 loaf
>93 saturn (wife's car)
>(and they all live in my driveway!)
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