The ordinance wouldn't apply to furniture enclosed by a screen or not visible from the street.

I'll bet one of them tries to get some screen and just wrap it around the area where the furniture sits, to try to get around the law.

Granted, I may be overestimating the intelligence of these people. I mean, they're using couches for lawn furniture.

This looks to me like someone is trying to legislate good taste. Bad idea.

Besides, having a couch on the front porch kicks ass! Once you try it, you won't want to go back.

In so_viet ru_sia, laws landscape you!

/Yakov

Hey, this isn't just redneck. Here in Boulder, the city council recently banned upholstered furniture from being used outside in the Hill area. Of course, their reason is that the couches, et al, were being used as fuel for bonfires during riots. So, it's not just redneck, but stupid undergrad landscaping as well.

Sadly Enough there is so many people that do this in where i live it would not make a bit of diffrenence, after all you cannot arrest the entire damn populace.

hmm on a totally unrelated note; i now have 2 couches and a chair for sale..

Dorkasaurus has it down straight. Couches out front rule all sorts of ass and anyone who says otherwise hasn't tried it. Just like heroin, don't knock it till you tried it.

Florida: surprise, surprise...

does this mean I have to move the X-wing and Landspeeder too?

No Florida tag?

Only use the cliche if you can use it well...an example follows:

In Soviet Roosia, dead horse beats you.

See? It's easy, m'kay?

Rats.

In
Soviet
Russia
Hillybilly
landscaping
Bans
You!

I here thunder.

I hear thunder.

Hey, don't laugh. The town where I went to college had an ordinance like this. The cops used to actually drive around in a big trash truck looking for couches on people's front porches. Without warning, they'd haul it off to the dump and then leave you a bill for it. Just try having a good kegger without a couch outside. I'm telling you it just can't be done.

This has also happened where I live. Not because of the unsightly nature, because the college students tend to have sofa bonfires on the weekend. I think the fire stations saved lots o' money because of this.

DaRblGen
No, but you can fine everyone.

"Big Brother is stealing my rights" comments in 5 . . 4 . . 3 . .

"...Bob Benton... Eddie Enns...Commissioner Christine Coke"

Welcome to Alliteration, FL.

"It's important for people to visit with neighbors from their porches, but only if they're sitting on appropriate furniture"

Wow.

Allright, let me preface this by saying nobody I even know has ever used living room furniture outdoors. I agree it looks tacky. I agree it screams redneck. I agree it's a dipshiat thing to do. That being said...

Waah, Waah, Waaah!!!

When are we going to quit bogging our government down with ridiculous bullshiat like this. Commissioner Christine Coke sounds like a busy-body Gladys Kravitz type...

But what about my broken cars and bulldozer? Can they stay?

Anybody else notice that the two councilmen opposing the new law are named Duke and Rufus?

Gotta love rednecks....

MunzoMan: that couch just reached out and grabbed me! Now I can't get up.

Ya'll say I cain't have mah decorations like I wants 'em?

What I want to know is when are they going to ban outdoor furniture used indoors? I love my $10 plastic table and $4 plastic chairs in my living room......

But I can still have my mass human grave out front, right?

Sprediletto:

Damn, you beat me to it!

2...1...

The Government is trying to take away our fundamental right to put furniture indoors or outdoors. What next saying we have to put Outdoor Furniture outdoors?? (hey somepople are that cheap)

Welcome to your Nazi Germany

First they came for the couches...

I'd like to add an addendum that includes chest high weeds. I haven't seen the neighbor's wife in almost 7 months and I'm beginning to think she's buried under them. Can I be jumping to conclusions or is this a job for CSI?

I'm more worried about the rusted out lawn mowers and shopping carts then couches. Stoopid rednecks!

What can you say, Duke and Rufus were agin' it

/hillbilly abbreviation

DaRblGen:

What next saying we have to put Outdoor Furniture outdoors?? (hey somepople are that cheap)

Don't you mean indoors?

Ha ha! I laugh at your obvious mistake!

[/kidding]

Wee doggie, Jethro! Hee-Haw! cue banjo music

Simple redneck answer: if there needs to be a fence around the furniture, why not surround the porch with chicken wire?

Broken refrigerators and a 1986 IROC on blocks is still acceptable, isn't it?

What if your hound/drunk buddy soils the couch, then can you put it outside? ... granted the other two go with it?

Anyone who hasn't experienced a night of underage college drinking on someones front porch-couch truly, truly missed out.

Hell, I spent almost an entire semester on the couch on my neighbors couch.

I wonder if stupid rules like these (banning indoor furniture outdoors) is why Rednecks carry large amounts of weaponry and stand off against Government Forces...

Thank God this ordinance discussion is in Florida and not Arkansas. If it went into effect here, we would all have to move inside and then build roofs and walls to boot.

Ahhhh, Curmudgeon:

In Farkistan, I'm French! You surrender!

"I couldn't sit in my back yard," Coke said. "It breeds insects, bugs and mildew, and makes it hard for people to breathe."


Glad she made that distinction between bugs and insects.

Dorkasaurus: This looks to me like someone is trying to legislate good taste. Bad idea.

I concur. So long as you keep your sofa clean enough that it doesn't attract vermin, or pose any other serious problem for the street, there should be no legal reason to get rid of it.

TheMatt: Hey, this isn't just redneck. Here in Boulder, the city council recently banned upholstered furniture from being used outside in the Hill area. Of course, their reason is that the couches, et al, were being used as fuel for bonfires during riots. So, it's not just redneck, but stupid undergrad landscaping as well.

Wait, are you telling me they've banned the use of a certain product outdoors because of what stupid people might illegally do with it?! This is the same logic behind the burglar who falls through a skylight of the house he's robbing and then sues the owner who installed it. How about they advise you not to leave couches outside for fear of bonfires, and crack down on the illegal pyro rioters instead?

Didn't anyone catch the names of the two 'opposing' voters?

Commissioner R. "Duke" Nelson, who opposed the measure with Commissioner Rufus Alexander

Duke and Rufus....you know them fellas got a couple Trans-maros parked on cinder-blocks in their yard.

Rednecks stand off

(okay not as funny as "France Surrenders")

we used to have two couches in our backyard. and a full-size fridge. that's class.

sometimes i miss college life.