The poor man committed the error of assuming that the land to which he holds title is his to do with as he pleases.
I TRIED to get out of writing about zoning and regulation, but they keep pulling me back in. It seems that DeKalb County, Georgia, enforces strict legal limits on how many vegetables you grow on your property. A gentleman named Steve Miller, who apparently has a suspicious fondness for broccoli, is facing a $5,000 fine from county officials, reports Sarah Parsons at Change.org.
Read more at The Economist.
Really!?! If they hadn’t been distracted with this poor guy growing vegetables in his backyard, maybe they would have caught the guy who killed the dad who was dropping off his child at daycare.
Why aren’t they focusing on the “real” criminals? This was a waste of taxpayer dollars. Unbelieveable.