Neighbors vs. Neighbors

**CARTer** · 07-31-2012 12:02 PM

I have no basis to opine on riparian science. But there is another angle of this that really irks me.

My town is under a watering ban. Driving through the neighborhood last night, there were quite a few scofflaws who were running their sprinklers.

I'm just curious to know why these people think the rules don't apply to them. I'd also like to know what other rules they feel free to ignore.

The consequences can get pretty pricy, too. First offense gets a warning. The penalties are then $250, $500 and $2500 for each successive offense within a year of a prior offense.

I don't want to become the neighborhood snitch, but then again, who the heck do these people think they are?

**Sleepcheap** · 07-31-2012 12:33 PM

They're taking water out of your kids' mouths. I'd rat them out.

**ZUL8TR** · 07-31-2012 01:15 PM

Our neighbor washed her truck despite the ban.

**Frank Capua** · 07-31-2012 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by ZUL8TR

Our neighbor washed her truck despite the ban.

Cool Hand Luke washed it?

**ZUL8TR** · 07-31-2012 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by Frank Capua

Cool Hand Luke washed it?

Not this neighbor

**Frank Capua** · 07-31-2012 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by ZUL8TR

Not this neighbor

So you reported her... Right?

**comfortably numb** · 07-31-2012 01:38 PM

They ought to offer a finder's fee.
I bet a little pocket change would really bring out the sni....uh, concerned citizens.

**Ren Butler** · 07-31-2012 01:49 PM

We're going to run our slip n' slide at my boy's first birthday party.

**Doyouloveit?** · 07-31-2012 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Ren Butler

We're going to run our slip n' slide at my boy's first birthday party.

My parents never let us have one of those when we were kids....my father works in insurance and his reasoning was that he saw claims where kids broke their necks when using them. He had the same argument for trampolines as well.

Hope you have an umbrella insurance policy

**Frank Capua** · 07-31-2012 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by Doyouloveit?

My parents never let us have one of those when we were kids....my father works in insurance and his reasoning was that he saw claims where kids broke their necks when using them. He had the same argument for trampolines as well.

Hope you have an umbrella insurance policy

Plus sending a one year old down a slip n' slide has to be considered abuse... Even in Fishers.

**Ren Butler** · 07-31-2012 02:00 PM

It's for the bigger kids, not the one-year-old. And some of the REALLY big kids, if you know what I mean.

It's always the hit of the summertime family parties. Nobody's been hurt -- yet.

**SoundMan360** · 07-31-2012 02:14 PM

don't they have some bigger, grown up sized slip and slides these days?

I'm sure you'll have a great time, what a special day!

**Neshaminy** · 07-31-2012 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by Ren Butler

It's for the bigger kids, not the one-year-old. And some of the REALLY big kids, if you know what I mean.

It's always the hit of the summertime family parties. Nobody's been hurt -- yet.

The bigger ones are always smarter.

**ZUL8TR** · 07-31-2012 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by Frank Capua

So you reported her... Right?

Actually didn't.

**MoparsRule** · 07-31-2012 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by jabba19

Indianapolis has plenty of water supply left. If they actually put some thought into things and tried assigned watering days, more people likely would've cooperated. Problem is, they started getting to the point of record usage and they call for a voluntary ban on watering. When that didn't work, they go to a mandatory ban, with fines. Easy solution for the water company. These people screaming the loudest like to think they are caring about having enough water. Like I said before, these are the type who don't care about their yard to begin with, AND consider those who do care as wasting, even when we aren't in a drought. I also find it amusing that when usage started hitting record levels, you had folks who left sprinklers on for many hours at a time, watering the driveway and cars, clearly wasting. Then those people think they are being good little boy scouts when they stop.

There is definitely a strain on the availability of water. *

(to use your tone...) , If parts of the public would actually put some thought into why they are requesting - and then mandating - the bans then then those people would cooperate.

And the problem isn't just with a lack of supply, but with the limitations of pumping capacity, and distribution capacity.

The problems began with the City Of Indianapolis purchased the water utility, and now with Citizens Energy purchasing the assets, there is a LOT of work to be done to make up for the 8+ years of neglect.

**ZUL8TR** · 07-31-2012 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by Frank Capua

Plus sending a one year old down a slip n' slide has to be considered abuse... Even in Fishers.

Sending a 1 year old down a slip-n-slide would be more akin to bowling.

**SoundMan360** · 07-31-2012 02:27 PM

If this drought goes on much longer, nothing will be able to help the economy.

Another Dust Bowl is exactly what we don't need right now.

Some of you aren't raindancing hard enough!

**Ren Butler** · 07-31-2012 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by Neshaminy

The bigger ones are always smarter.

No, we're the ones who show the little kids how to keep sliding past the end of the slide and into the nearest tree trunk...

**comfortably numb** · 07-31-2012 02:39 PM

Put it on the roof...

**Ren Butler** · 07-31-2012 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by comfortably numb

Put it on the roof...

Back when we were dating, one of the first experiences my future wife had with my family was visiting my sister's house for a graduation party. The trampoline was set up in the front yard, and all the teenage boys were jumping onto it from the roof.

Let's just say that she tolerates the slip-n-slide in the grass. Anything really fun is off limits...

**Neshaminy** · 07-31-2012 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by Ren Butler

Back when we were dating, one of the first experiences my future wife had with my family was visiting my sister's house for a graduation party. The trampoline was set up in the front yard, and all the teenage boys were jumping onto it from the roof.

Let's just say that she tolerates the slip-n-slide in the grass. Anything really fun is off limits...

If you can't get some serious air time and speed, I'm wondering what the point is.......except for placing an obstruction at the end and setting up a video camera.

**Frank Capua** · 07-31-2012 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by Ren Butler

It's for the bigger kids, not the one-year-old. And some of the REALLY big kids, if you know what I mean.

It's always the hit of the summertime family parties. Nobody's been hurt -- yet.

Out at the Farm Dad put in an Earthen Dam even before he built the house on the hill and while it had a drain pipe to set the level it also had a grassy spillway for when we had heavy rains and it ran down from one side of the dam to the other to where the drain pipe emptied into a creek we kept it clear of stones and sticks as well as mowed. So when the rains came we had a natural slip n' slide and us big kids would go crazy down that sucker. Don't recall any injuries but then we only went down it on God's invite.

Can't say the same for the skateboarding we did down the drive from the house beside the spillway that turned into the valley to follow the creek out to the road but God had little to do with what we did on skateboards.

**Baulz** · 07-31-2012 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by Ren Butler

No, we're the ones who show the little kids how to keep sliding past the end of the slide and into the nearest tree trunk...

Last weekend a friend (who is a big guy) setup the slide on a steep hill with a jump at the end into a kiddie pool, right next to his house. Much to my disapointment there were no injuries.

**Frank Capua** · 07-31-2012 03:14 PM

**Neshaminy** · 07-31-2012 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Baulz

Last weekend a friend (who is a big guy) setup the slide on a steep hill with a jump at the end into a kiddie pool, right next to his house. Much to my disapointment there were no injuries.

It's all about the physics......