Watch out for the home solar scam.

 

https://www.stripes.com/branches/ar...ficer-promotion-demoted-lawsuit-14748421.html

Retired Army officer sues government over clerical mistake that cost him promotions, pay

 

https://www.kptv.com/2024/08/28/bubble-man-gets-ticket-liquid-littering/
‘Bubble Man’ gets ticket for liquid littering

Snakeburg lives off tips he gets from his bubble shows. He often performs in La Jolla Cove, but rangers there recently gave him a ticket for the bubbles – citing him for “liquid littering.”

“Basically, he was saying when my bubbles pop, the residue of the bubbles fall to the ground and kill the grass,” Snakeburg said.

The veteran said he told the rangers he is in compliance with the city and is registered with San Diego Parks and Rec.

While the citation didn’t have a fine, it does have a court appearance date on it for October.

Are they giving tickets to the homeless druggies for “liquid littering" on the sidewalks and streets of the city?

 

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending...onsole-taken-away/FWVU2A4WUZD7ZM65A2ZVJR2YZU/
Young fan ‘wins’ PlayStation 5 during Charlotte Hornets on-court skit; console taken away

“During last night’s game, there was an on-court skit that missed the mark. The skit included bad decision-making and poor communication. Simply put, we turned the ball over and we apologize. We have reached out to the family and are committed to not only making it right but to exceeding expectations. We will be providing the fan with the PS5 that he should have taken home last night along with a VIP experience to a future game. Our goal is and will remain to elevate the guest experience for every person that enters Spectrum Center, and to show our fans how much we appreciate their relentless support.”

 

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending...onsole-taken-away/FWVU2A4WUZD7ZM65A2ZVJR2YZU/
Young fan ‘wins’ PlayStation 5 during Charlotte Hornets on-court skit; console taken away

It's hard to tell where the problem arose. Was the original intent to swap the prize, or was it truly some bad coordination and communication among their people. Either way, it sounds like the organization was at least smart enough to quickly realize that their proper response was to pony up and even go beyond to make amends. Lot's of organizations would have dragged their feet and muttered about the legalese on the ticket fine print.

 

Rule #1 for marketing idiots. Don't ever do something like that with children even if you say to them, it's 'make believe'.

We had a name for that when I was a kid, INDIAN GIVER. It wasn't about the behaviour of 'indians' (Native Americans), it was about 'indians' were lied to and treated by those in power.

Indians, are the victims of this particular phrase.

 

 

 

 

My suspicion is that this is a lot more complicated than it appears at first glance. A lot of it depends on exactly what the HOA Declarations say is and isn't allowed and how much discretion the board is given to waive them.

I dislike HOAs pretty intensely. They are pretty much a necessary evil in community interest properties like townhomes and condos, since the community as a whole, and not individual homeowners, is responsible for specific items, such as exterior maintenance and landscaping. Fortunately, in many such communities, the burden associated with doing those things that have to be done saturates the board, who are almost always volunteers, leaving them little room to develop tin-god syndrome.

But neighborhood HOAs, in which the board has little or no actual maintenance obligations, but are rather created to somehow maintain the desired atmosphere of the neighborhood, tend very much to foster tin-gods on the board. That may or may not be the case here.

Assuming that it's not, then taking a step back and considering why the HOA exists and why people choose to live in a community controlled by a neighborhood HOA shows that it's not so easy to come down on one side or the other. These HOAs are put in place because people living in that neighborhood want to feel like they live in some picture-perfect utopian enclave. So they give the HOA the power to dictate what color your house can be painted, how long your garage door can be open, how long a car can be parked on the street in front of your house, what holiday decorations you can put out and when you can put them up and when you have to have them taken down by, what kind of mailbox you can have, what condition a car parked in your driveway must be in so as not to be considered an eye-sore, whether you can have a boat or trailer parked next to your house on in your driveway that is visible from the street, and whether or not you can leave anything sitting out unattended in your driveway or yard.

As is often the case, individual homeowners are all for strict enforcement of all the HOA rules in order to keep the neighborhood picture-perfect, unless and until they want to do something that violates the rules. Then they feel the HOA is being unreasonable and overbearing. It would be interesting to see if this homeowner would insist that the HOA do something if a lot of people around the neighborhood started leaving this and that out in their driveway all day, thus detracting from the neat and clean appearance that the HOA is supposed to be protecting.

Personally, I don't want to live in any kind of covenant-controlled community or one with a neighborhood HOA, precisely because I don't want others telling me what I can and can't do with and on my property at that kind of intrusive level. The consequence that I have to accept, of course, is that I forfeit the right to tell my neighbors what they can and can't do on their property to that same degree. Unfortunately, lots of people get attracted to these kinds of communities, in large part because they do look more inviting and picture-perfect because of the intrusive actions of the HOA, but then bristle at having to abide by the same restrictions that they insist other accept.

 

https://www.wtvm.com/2025/09/25/ems...-he-was-bitten-by-mamba-snake/?outputType=amp

EMS team under fire for treating man with antivenom after he was bitten by a mamba snake

The Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services, or KBEMS, may think otherwise.

Barnes said he later learned KBEMS’ policy changed two years ago, and that only wilderness paramedics can administer antivenom now.

“If we had sat there and let him die, then we would have been morally and ethically responsible, and we could have been criminally charged for his death,” Barnes said.

Now, Barnes, who has his paramedic’s license, along with other EMS workers, will go up before KBEMS to argue why they should keep their licenses.