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JoB, I’m just trying to present another point of view here.
Someone could put a coffee cart outside my front gate and PRESUME that I’d be grateful because, heck, I can use it too. Not necessarily so, and that doesn’t negate the fact that the cart would still require City and neighborhood approval. And it would have been nice to ask me first…
I reject the notion that whatever makes me and my posse feel all warm and fuzzy should be thrust on everyone else whether they like it or not, just because it make ME happy. It doesn’t sound like anyone in PB posse has given a moment’s thought to this neighbor’s thoughts, only their own.
Keep in mind that we’ve never heard the side of the neighbor being vilified here. If his house is the closest to the bench, he has a right to be heard as he would be most affected by the extra traffic. There is nothing in any of these posts to suggest that anyone ever asked his opinion before placing the bench (though his opinion has long been clear), yet some have suggested that HE (or she) should have polled the entire neighborhood to ask permission before removing the offending items (they were removed several times before destruction).
Not only is this the height of hypocrisy, but it occurs to me that it is indeed “bullying by bench”. This issue has been going on for a long time. The ‘pro-bench’ faction is not only fully aware of this individual’s opinion of the bench, but of the fact that it is illegal to place it there. Yet they (and clearly it’s not some out of state stranger doing it) keep placing furniture at that spot over and over again.
Jiggers makes another good point. While it’s more likely than not that the horrible, frightening, terrorist neighbor smashed the chairs(what are his other crimes, btw? Too quiet?) nobody knows that for sure.