Entitled Neighbors Don't Like The Way Dad Snow Blows Their Walkway For Free, Get Fined

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Eric Lund
Nov 22, 2021 7:00 PM EST

It's not clear what's going through the minds of people who get angry about having their walk cleared of snow for free, but their lack of nuance or decency didn't help them in the end. Sometimes it's impossible to please people. For another tale of neighbors not exactly getting their own situation, here's the neighbor who demanded a farmer not clear his driveway and got his wish.

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    Font - r/) r/MaliciousCompliance - Posted by u/eGrant03 12 hours ago 2 3 2 3 Snow Shoveling Dramas! oC L I am reminded of a story that happened while I was living at home. You may enjoy it. On mobile and names have been forgotten, so I'm gonna make them up. This happened in the late 90s, early 2000s for reference. My dad owned a snow blower. During the wicked weather this side of the Rockies, he would use his blower to take care of the sidewalks in front of everyone on both sides of our block. M
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    Font - So, my neighbors two doors down divorce and sell their house to a family from out of state. Fake name time: Picards sounds good. I know they were from a snowy state, but I don't remember where. They moved in during the late summer, close to the start of the school year. A couple months later, our state has a massive snow storm. It would snow for nearly 24 hours for almost the entire winter. You would shovel and clear snow just to get another dump, and you'd have to keep going and going. W
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    Font - So my dad is out there during the first big dump with his snowblower, just taking care of business as he's nice and the third house down had an occupant that walked on arm crutches. He just made a path from our house to their's. No big deal; been taking care of this for a while now. He gets done and heads to work. He gets home late most nights so he's not expecting anyone to be at the door as he walks in. Low and behold, the Picards must have been watching out the window for him as they w
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    Font - My dad is out of it after a 10+ hour day, commute not included, so he's not getting what's happening. "I'm sorry?" "You should be! That tree is too small to handle that much snow blown on it. You need to blow it somewhere else." As my dad was one that religiously read city bylaws, he knew the time frame for removing snow and where you could put shoveled snow. The city doesn't allow allow you to blow snow into the street cause it messes with the plow's ability to take care if the streets.
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    Font - So the next day, the neighbor comes by to complain again. He didn't know that a small snowfall can get cars stuck in that driveway, let alone what we had plus a snowblower! His car got stuck halfway in the street and he had to get it towed out. (If my dad were home, he could have saved them the tow fee, but Picard didn't know that). So Picard is fuming and saying he's going to do his own walk from now on. My dad tries to tell him he's just assisting the neighbor on the other side, and he
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    Font - The next day, my dad knocks on the neighbors' door and tries to tell Picard about how strict the city is about snow removal, and how he has 24 hours from the start of snow fall to get things removed, etc. He wrote down a website where he can go to read the rules, but Picard didn't take it. The city was constantally driving down our block for reasons I won't go into here. The Picards were doing a semi sufficient job manually shoveling snow away properly, but then... October in my state has
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    Font - complained to the city that they couldn't walk down our street. It was obvious that the walks were being taken care of, so why not their's? The city posted a 48-hour compliance notice, but it would be 72 before the Picards got back to town. The city charged them with hazardous conditions and failure to maintain property accessible to the public. On top of the labor fee to shovel the walk, it was like $350 easily! The city kept a watchful eye on the property for the rest of the winter for
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