From Pine View Farm

Stirring the Pot 0

A homeowner has filed suit against a Central Pennsylvania town for making him remove the word crap from two protest signs he posted in mid July.

They read: “$10,000 TO TAKE A CRAP.”

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About a week later, the township’s code-enforcement agency notified Kliss, who lives at 436 Pheasant Rd., that he was violating a zoning ordinance that “No Loud, Vulgar, Indecent or Obscene Advertising matter shall be displayed in any manner.”

The homeowner is protesting being compelled to pay for a sewer connection which he claims will cost him big bucks.

He painted over the word “crap,” leaving the sentence dangling, and is taking the township to court alleging that

  • the township’s motive is to silence political speech with which it disagrees, that
  • the ordinance does not define “Loud, Vulgar, Indecent or Obscene” and is therefore too vague to be enforceable, that
  • “crap” is in common usage and therefore isn’t “Loud, Vulgar, Indecent or Obscene” any way.

Speaking from a position of complete ignorance, I suspect he has a case.

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