I'm just flush with shiatty puns.

Can they also get rid of those wooden "country" cut-outs of people bending over and showing their underwear? Because I hate those.

Okay, can we all agree on one thing? Random objects you find do not constitute art, so please quit using art as an excuse to keep tasteless items on display.

No I don't actually care what people have in their yards, the excuse itself is what annoys me.

useless without pics?

/who knows, might look good...
//not that my opinion matters to her choices in landscape anyway...

My neighbor loves those stupid gazing balls. One day I was doing yard work and she called me over to she me her new ones - they're bowling balls. "They don't break!!!"

To each their own - doesn't bother me - it's her yard.

Article with pics. ^{(^)}

Very tacky.

Neighbors like her are the cause of Home Owners Associations.

So she has to remove the crap from her yard while other people just toss shiat like old couches, broken down cars, and garbage in their yards and can keep it there?

Lets find a halfway point here.

Oztemprom: useless without pics?

/who knows, might look good...
//not that my opinion matters to her choices in landscape anyway...

I saw it on the news last night and it does not look good. But if I wanted my neighborhood to look nice, I would not live in Lakemoor. It is a small white trashy place next to Wisconsin.

I know where someone has one local to me.

She just needs a Web site with user-submitted pictures.

Roadside toilet in Laytonville, CA

She has a bit too much time on her hands.

Her Asmus be full of crap.

Eh. I think it /could/ be WAY more tacky. I looked at the 2nd article w/ the pics and...honestly I don't see what the huge fuss is about. Sure it's a toilet planter, but not amongst 500 junk cars and sofas. Just let her be.

I've always thought all that stuff looks like crap, but I never cared if it was in someone else's yard. If they like their yard to be filled with cheap shiatty dollar store garden ornaments, random industrial junk, old household appliances, and so on, more power to them.

/threw away tons of that shiat when i moved in here

Pay the Man: Her Asmus be full of crap.

ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! Good one! I kinda like the planters, our town made the couple of people with them remove them too.

Ahh memories.

This is slightly unrelated, but it's worth sharing. A few years ago the neighbors put out a baby blue toilet on the curb for disposal after some minor renovations. It was just so random, a totally pristine baby blue toilet with matching lid, sitting on the curb. Like it was always meant to be there.

It looked so perfect sitting there that later that day I went to a local bakery and obtained a nice big stale chocolate nut roll and dropped it in there for the visual effect: an impossibly large turd.

The hilarity that was visited upon the curious who lifted the seat was priceless. I only wish I had videotaped it.

You'd be surprised how many of my neighbors let curiosity get the better of them.

I strongy believe in a womans right to choose... what she does with her old crappers

Do the toilets come with their own fertilizer?

Also, you have to love the irony of (look at the article with the photos) writing 'God Bless My Neighbors' on a toilet planter and then having them make you remove it.

Actually they would be creative and kind of cool; except for the writing on them.
THAT needs to go.
Also she should completely remove the lids, I would also plant the "tank area" if I were her with Sweet Potato Vine, and Petunias to create a cascading waterfall of flowers.

Nakito: Neighbors like her are the cause of Home Owners Associations.

No, neighbors like those who complained are the cause of HOAs.

I rent a house on a farm, that has been in constant operation for over a hundred years. Thanks to eminent domain, the farm is now half the size, and there's a housing development across the road. The new residents are complaining that there are tractors. On a farm.

The court date is set for September, when the owners have to argue, to a judge, why they need tractors to maintain a 200 acre farm. If the housing development wins, then the farm will effectively be shut down overnight, and millions of dollars in crops will be lost. All because stupid city folks don't know what the word "farm" means.

If you want to live in a perfect neighborhood, move into a gated neighborhood. Don't tell everyone else what they're allowed to do with land they have owned for over a century.

the ha ha guy: The court date is set for September, when the owners have to argue, to a judge, why they need tractors to maintain a 200 acre farm. If the housing development wins, then the farm will effectively be shut down overnight, and millions of dollars in crops will be lost. All because stupid city folks don't know what the word "farm" means.

This is what happened in my NH town when new people biatched about flys in their yard from the farm next door:

Selectman: Didja know 'bout the goat fahm next doo-a when you bought the house?
Complainee: Yes sir, the goat farm was there.
Slectman: Case closed! Next ordah of bizness?

How 'bout these next?

My part of New York is home to more truck-tire planters than anywhere.



That one's kind of high-end because it hasn't been painted pink.

the ha ha guy, your point seems to be ass-backwards. Your example involves a pre-existing condition that the neighbors knew about before they moved it, and then they complained about it afterward. But the subject article is just the opposite -- the ugly stuff wasn't there, and then the woman added it and the neighbors complained. Do you see a difference?

My neighbor had a toilet seat planter in his yard for years!

/went well with the wind chimes made of kitchen utensils.

art.......... it is, trailer trash art. what the hell lady?... nuff said

Nakito: Your example involves a pre-existing condition that the neighbors knew about before they moved it, and then they complained about it afterward. But the subject article is just the opposite -- the ugly stuff wasn't there, and then the woman added it and the neighbors complained. Do you see a difference?

In both cases, the neighbors are dictating what a land owner may or may not do with land they own. In this case, the objects were in place for two years before anyone complained. In the case of the farm, a hundred years. In both cases, it has escalated to the point that lawyers and judges have to get involved, in a dispute solely based on opinion rather than law.

If a neighbor moves in before she builds a fence, does that mean she may never build a fence, because there was no pre-existing fence? If she has no shed, does that mean she may never buy one? Both examples are common causes for complaint, and both examples have been in court many times over, yet people continue building fences and buying sheds.

I'm not going to argue that what she's doing is art, because it's not. However, there is no law against ownership or storage of any item, with the sole exception of untagged vehicles.

Unless a HOA exists, the sole authority she has to answer to is the law. If the law says that it is illegal to have unusually shaped planters, then the neighbors have a case. If not, the neighbors are only looking to illegally control that which they do not own.

Already, the precedent is set that neighbors can dictate what she may or may not own. How long before they decide that she may not paint her house a color they do not approve of? How long before they decide she may not buy a new car that's a different make form the one she had when they moved in? After all, a different car, or even a second car, would not be a pre-existing condition, therefore with your logic, the neighbors are within their rights to dictate that she may not have one, and the town council would be within their rights to enforce the neighbors decision.

I can't say I like the "planters", but without an HOA, this is not the type of precedent that should be set.

I wish I had a pic of this to prove it, but there's a guy in my village (Potsdam, NY) who allegedly wanted a variance on his downtown lot (zoned residential). He wanted to put the Dunkin' Donuts that eventually came to town (or SOME business, anyhow) on his lot which bordered the rest of the downtown commercial district. He was denied.

So he did a 180 and went Agricultural (for which, apparently, he did NOT need a variance OR permission). He planted a cornfield, painted the sole structure on the lot (a garage) a BRIGHT, garish orange with purple trim. He affixed urinals to the sides of the garage and put plants in them, and the lot is littered with no fewer than 8 toilets, also used as planters. Oh, there was a scarecrow too!

This year it looks like there won't be any corn. But the "planters" are all still there!

A couple of rifle rounds should do the trick. Intimidation factor should keep it from ever happening again. I won't tell if you won't.

Farkeologist: So he did a 180 and went Agricultural (for which, apparently, he did NOT need a variance OR permission).

Virtually everywhere except major cities, residential zoning is actual "agricultural residential", which is the same zoning as large commercial farms. Basically, if you have an "AR" lot of any size, you can have a fully working farm. The only restrictions are the number of animals you can have per acre, and proper runoff of waste and chemicals.

Sure, your neighbors may complain, but the only legal way to stop you would be to re-zone your lot to commercial, which would be a huge win for you, given the price of commercial land over residential.

Gulper Eel: My part of New York is home to more truck-tire planters than anywhere.



That one's kind of high-end because it hasn't been painted pink.

My first sandbox when I was a kid was made from a tractor tire. So was my first swing in the back yard.

/we used the innertubes for sledding in the winter
//that was one chaotic ride
///damn, I miss it

SapperInTexas: My first sandbox when I was a kid was made from a tractor tire. So was my first swing in the back yard.

Tire swing: excellent

Tire sandbox: unusual, but permissible

Tire planter: ermmmm....okay, good re-use there - but chrissakes, don't paint the thing.