Delaware is now safe and basketball hoop free.

Why? What law could possibly be broken that required a basketball net to be torn down?

What the fuck? What law allows the cops to rip out your property and take it away? They told that guy he could keep the poll after it was pulled out, but then they took it away. I think if someone tried to take my property like that I would probably turn violent.

GenjiKilpatrick

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DelDOT previously stated that several basketball poles in a Delaware neighborhood violated the state’s “Clear Zone” law.
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"Sign owners who wish to reclaim their signs will have to pay a $15-per-sign recovery fee."
Clear Zone Law

They took his property so they could extort dollars out of him.
-_-.. fuck bureacracy.>> ^tsarsfield:

Why? What law could possibly be broken that required a basketball net to be torn down?

pho3n1x

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That's utter bullshit. A basketball hoop is CLEARLY not a sign.

If the case is made that people might run off the road and hit the "sign" (basketball pole), then one of two things need to happen:
1) Force everyone in the state to re-take their driver's license tests, since they obviously have issues staying on the road.
2) Remove all roadway lighting fixtures, utility poles, traffic signs/signals. They are a similar hazard.

Reference: http://www.deldot.gov/information/media_gallery/2005/illegal_signs/index.shtml

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DelDOT is enforcing laws designed to keep the State's Rights-Of-Way clear from illegal and dangerous signs. The law is simple:

DelDOT must remove any sign posted in the Clear Zone (in medians and approx. 10' from the edge of the roadway), including those attached to utility poles anywhere along the roadway.
Any sign in the State's Rights-of-Way that is not in the Clear Zone will also be removed.
Exemptions apply outside the Clear Zone only for signs posted during a period of 30-days prior to and 30-days after an election, in a district in which an election is held.
Sign owners are subject to fines of $25 per sign and a recovery fee of $15 per sign.
Confiscated signs will be disposed of after 30 days. The fines still apply.
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http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/198005/
" Last fall, DelDOT sent letters to at least eight residents in the Radnor Green and Ashbourne Hills subdivisions saying their street-side basketball hoops violated the state’s Clear Zone law, which prohibits hoops, trees, shrubs and other objects from being within seven feet of the pavement's edge in subdivisions."

edit: I also see at least 3 trees and several shrubs within 7' of the roadway that would also fall under their Clear Law, why is no one pulling those out? Oh, because elderly people don't have to slow down for kids who are playing in the roadway near shrubs...