Government at work
Shutting down a haunted house that raises money for charity for not having a building permit. Whenever I read something like this, I often wonder the thought process of the bureaucratic bottom-feeders who think this is a good idea.
October 14th, 2011 at 8:59 am
There is no *thought process* involved. Morons and idiots can’t think. Just look at the Occupy Something-or-Other crowd…same part of thegene pool….
October 14th, 2011 at 9:01 am
They’re thinking “with so many people going through this every night, it damn well better be up to code.”
October 14th, 2011 at 10:15 am
Nope. It’s all about money. From the comments at that article:
The city doesn’t want the competition.
October 14th, 2011 at 10:19 am
Or could it be that they are trying to avoid something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Castle_%28Six_Flags_Great_Adventure%29#1984_Fire
October 14th, 2011 at 10:38 am
They want to get respect from the amateur housebuilder. If he said “Captain, may I?” and paid them money, they’d probably be okay with it. Can’t let the proles do anything without permission and supervision, after all!
October 14th, 2011 at 11:22 am
It’s just because all those people in the flyover states are anti-Halloween. If this happened in a more civilized Democratic state, this type of thing would never happen.
….oh wait.
October 14th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Blame the lawyers. The City would get sued for allowing it once their attention was brought to the makeshift building standards it became a legal avalanche.
And not because the Haunted House will attract overcrowding on the streets with potential violence and gangbangers and side-shows with spin-outs. Freakmont was a war-zone between local gangs for many years back when I worked there, and the central mall called The Hub was ground zero – stabbings, vehicles set on-fire, stuff the #OWS crowd likes to do but only talks about (so far).
I’m glad I didn’t buy a home in that neighborhood, not that the Agent would have disclosed the nuisance.
October 14th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Charity is something government does. If you want to give to charity, give to the government, Stupid. Otherwise it’s none of your business.
October 16th, 2011 at 11:57 pm
I don’t know anything about this specific case, but I can speak to some cases.
In my town, we had a haunted house that has been built without any regard to code. They had no fire surpression, no lighted exit routes, no method for evacuating the facility, etc.
We gave them multiple warnings as they were building the thing, and finally had to refuse them a certificate of occupancy. The place was a deathtrap, and they made no attempt to fix it.
Government at all levels does pretty stupid things. I was a cop for 20 years, and am the emergency manager for my town, but hate government at all levels for the stupid and patronizing things they do.