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mr_a		2008-10-24 12:22:57 AM

Cambridge city council is ready to ban hockey nets from being left along sidewalks in front of homes.

Portable basketball nets and skateboard ramps would also be banned under a new city boulevard bylaw.

Good idea...we all know how bad sports are for kids. Let get them hanging out and drinking beer as soon as possible and keep our boulevards beautiful.

Byn		2008-10-24 01:07:47 AM

Excellent! Now there's NO excuse for getting kids' fat arses off the couch. Good plan, eh!

snowcircle		2008-10-24 01:08:38 AM

Is it an issue of the kids playing in the streets, or leaving their shiat in the streets after they're finished?

/dnrtfa

the_sidewinder		2008-10-24 01:09:35 AM

That's not ironic, that's just stupid

THX 1138		2008-10-24 01:11:49 AM

Cambridge. Already the most boring city in the world, now to become even moreso.

TheShavingofOccam123		2008-10-24 01:12:31 AM

mr_a: Cambridge city council is ready to ban hockey nets from being left along sidewalks in front of homes.

Portable basketball nets and skateboard ramps would also be banned under a new city boulevard bylaw.

Good idea...we all know how bad sports are for kids. Let get them hanging out and drinking beer as soon as possible and keep our boulevards beautiful.

hepped up on poutine...

de_Selby		2008-10-24 01:16:54 AM

not irony
/the irony wars, begun they have
//cambridge truly, madly, deeply sucks
///kitchener born, waterloo bred

Epsilon		2008-10-24 01:18:58 AM

News: City doesn't want hockey nets left in front of houses. Fark: In Canada

I think most cities in the civilized world would prefer not to have hockey nets left willy-nilly amongst the neighborhoods. What's significant that this is about Canada?

mr-b		2008-10-24 01:20:02 AM

Wow.. my hometown on Fark.. Glad I don't live there anymore.

Idiots don't have anything better to do than to biatch about this. It was never as bad as they say in the article.

Welcome to Soviet Socialist Ontario. Land of Red-Tape and regulations.

/Needs a dumbass tag.

nicoffeine		2008-10-24 01:20:38 AM

Epsilon: News: City doesn't want hockey nets left in front of houses. Fark: In Canada

I think most cities in the civilized world would prefer not to have hockey nets left willy-nilly amongst the neighborhoods. What's significant that this is about Canada?

Because Hockey IS civilization.

In Canada.

angryalmond		2008-10-24 01:23:36 AM

nicoffeine: Epsilon: News: City doesn't want hockey nets left in front of houses. Fark: In Canada

I think most cities in the civilized world would prefer not to have hockey nets left willy-nilly amongst the neighborhoods. What's significant that this is about Canada?

Because Hockey IS ~~civilization~~.

In Canada.

Hockey is not civilization...it's religion.

/FTFY

Spanner		2008-10-24 01:23:45 AM

I'm a Canadian and I'm getting a kick...

/hates hockey
//Slashies

Richard Saunders		2008-10-24 01:29:15 AM

FTA -The bylaw is also prohibits plaining anything sharp or dangerous to the public

HUH?

PushF12		2008-10-24 01:29:19 AM

Cambridge Ontario: For when you can't afford K/W, or want to upgrade from Brantford.

de_Selby		2008-10-24 01:31:49 AM

PushF12: Cambridge Ontario: For when you can't afford K/W, or want to upgrade from Brantford.

can't afford kitchener? wow - that's hard up.

bobbette		2008-10-24 01:35:20 AM

Spanner: I'm a Canadian and I'm getting a kick...

/hates hockey
//Slashies

REPORTED for un-Canadian activities.

/kidding
//I think leaving nets and basketball hoops on the sidewalks is ridiculous too. Move it to the driveway, people.

Doc Batarang		2008-10-24 01:42:36 AM

" The bylaw grew out of few cases in recent years of people growing corn on the boulevards along the street curbs. The city had no clear-cut rules to deal with the vegetation.

Corn would be banned under the new rules, which specifically prohibits growing vegetables or grains.

Plants must be shorter than 45 centremetres, except for grass, which must be no taller than 20 centimetres."

Sounds like someone has waaaaay too much time on their hands. The citizens and the city...

Sir_Spanksalot		2008-10-24 01:46:07 AM

Spanner

Unbeleiver!!! Heretic!! Punish the Heretic!!

/joking

pnjunction		2008-10-24 01:47:49 AM

The bylaw grew out of few cases in recent years of people growing corn on the boulevards along the street curbs. The city had no clear-cut rules to deal with the vegetation.

Corn would be banned under the new rules, which specifically prohibits growing vegetables or grains.

Plants must be shorter than 45 centremetres, except for grass, which must be no taller than 20 centimetres.

Wow. I don't know what to say. We MUST truck in our vegetables from far away in order to keep the neighbourhood beautiful? I could understand banning big plants within a metre of two of the sidewalk or road, but banning growing your own vegetables completely? Part of me will be happy to see this twisted system we have built crumble and collapse someday.

de_Selby		2008-10-24 01:53:40 AM

you know who else banned hockey nets and corn ...

DarkAvised		2008-10-24 01:57:44 AM

Seriously, isn't it time to retire the Ironic tag.

Cosmic Crab		2008-10-24 02:18:17 AM

THX 1138: Cambridge. Already the most boring city in the world, now to become even moreso.

Kanata. The colour of your house is zoned.

mikejohnnyis		2008-10-24 02:20:53 AM

Came in expecting a wayne's world reference.
//Was disappointed in the internets

fanbladesaresharp		2008-10-24 02:21:10 AM

FTFA: "My goodness, they're all over the place because the kids don't have the recreational facilities in their neighbhourhoods."

Moran. the neighborhood is the recreational facility. This guy must have grown up in a closet.

What's that? Oh it's not the official facility? Oh noes.

/aww damn, I forgot to but U in neighbourhood.

Begoggle		2008-10-24 02:24:39 AM

Now that IS ironic! Literally!

GaryGobulcoque		2008-10-24 02:32:26 AM

Spanner: I'm a Canadian and I'm getting a kick...

/hates hockey
//Slashies

Please hand in your citizenship, you fail as a Canadian.

fullmooney		2008-10-24 02:35:48 AM

I just moved to Cambridge 2 weeks ago from the States, and I think it's funny that this place made it onto Fark.

Doc Batarang		2008-10-24 02:38:41 AM

fullmooney: I just moved to Cambridge 2 weeks ago from the States, and I think it's funny that this place made it onto Fark.

You're a fark magnet?

The Minister Of Propaganda		2008-10-24 02:38:43 AM

So what?

The ALL-TIME Cambridge hockey team:

Scott Walker - Louie DeBrusk - Tim Brent
Brad Shaw - Mike Hoffman
John Tanner

/trust me football fans, this is not a loss
//And these guys want their own team
///If someone from the city tried to touch MY net when I was a kid I'd go out and burn something of theirs in retaliation

Gyrfalcon		2008-10-24 02:39:20 AM

snowcircle: Is it an issue of the kids playing in the streets, or leaving their shiat in the streets after they're finished?

/dnrtfa

They pretty much go together. Anyone with kids knows they just can't clean up after themselves. Deal with it, grownups, and post the get off my lawn signs.

rabid_pet		2008-10-24 02:42:12 AM

fullmooney: I just moved to Cambridge 2 weeks ago from the States, and I think it's funny that this place made it onto Fark.

You saying that like it's a good thing?

Spanner		2008-10-24 02:44:08 AM

Okay, I do follow Sidney Crosby, there, is that good enough? Jeeze!

/you'll take my Canukistan membership from my cold dead hands!

Barakku		2008-10-24 02:50:40 AM

Stanny Nate

Poo_Fight		2008-10-24 02:59:54 AM

HOW can this be possible?

How can countries be so stupid in complete defiance of all their cultural norms?

Next you'll tell me that America has given up its heavy industry, millions of jobs, sense of pride, security, and manufactural dominance in order to save a few pennies at WalMart!

snochick		2008-10-24 03:42:20 AM

Spanner: I'm a Canadian and I'm getting a kick...

/hates hockey
//Slashies

BLASPHEMY!!!!!!1!

wippit		2008-10-24 06:11:09 AM

Game on!!

wrenchboy		2008-10-24 06:31:18 AM

Wish my city would ban the freakin portable basketball nets. The feral bastads bounce the damn ball day and all night and leave their crap bottles and candy wrappers everywhere. Not only that they are ugly to drive past.

Last of the Crazy People		2008-10-24 06:33:09 AM

PushF12: Cambridge Ontario: For when you can't afford ~~K/W~~Windsor, or want to upgrade from ~~Brantford~~Chatham.

/Chatham et Win-soar all aboard

Cosmic Crab		2008-10-24 06:33:25 AM

They shouldn't be playing on the sidewalk, they should be playing on the road like the good Lord Stanley intended.

Car!

Thanatos_10		2008-10-24 06:55:42 AM

I think this would have severely strained relations with the US if McCain got elected.

Headline: "City in Canada prohibits leaving hockey nets in front of houses. Palin excited at the prospect of invading the other country she can see from her house."

BigG		2008-10-24 07:21:25 AM

Car!

Game on!

CBob		2008-10-24 07:40:55 AM

Once Pround Canada Reduced to 3rd World County Status, Film At 11....

CBob		2008-10-24 07:48:25 AM

(grr)

Or Country even(DOH!)

sentunim		2008-10-24 07:56:49 AM

This is funny, because I am from Cambridge. ha ha ha. Although I live in St. John's now, Cambridge is a million times nicer. Trust me.

techmom		2008-10-24 08:11:20 AM

Epsilon: What's significant that this is about Canada?

Let's put it this way... for the past several years, there has been a competition amongst municipalities to name one town or city Canada's 'Hockeyville'. One town near where I live shut down the main street through town - blocked at each end by an RCMP cruiser, lights flashing - so that a bunch of kids could play street hockey for an hour or two. There aren't many Canadians who don't know what the cry "CAR!" means, in the middle of a pick-up game...

The issue doesn't even seem to be about blocking the sidewalks - more about the perception of 'unsightly clutter'. City council needs to rinse the sand out.

/played goalie in neighbourhood games
//no pads
///still about halfway insane

Daniefish		2008-10-24 08:22:32 AM

deSelby, I hear that. Just glad I was born at St. Mary's so I didn't have to wander towards the craphole that is Cambridge General.

Pope Larry II		2008-10-24 08:29:39 AM

I'm glad to see that Cambridge ex-pats are well represented on fark. I grew up there, my only goal was to leave once I finished high school.

There is a bit ao a back story that was not in the article. Some moran was growing corn on the boulivard, on a corner lot. It was considered unsafe but there was no by-law against it. Now they've come up with this doozy.

If I were a kid there now, I would have left my net out front as a form of protest.

/CAR!

Pxtl		2008-10-24 08:46:01 AM

Pope Larry II:
If I were a kid there now, I would have left my net out front as a form of protest.

/CAR!

There are kids on my street that most of the time don't even move their net off the road for a car. We're two blocks from an elementary school with a paved lot they could play on if they didn't want to be interrupted, but they're too lazy to even move the damned thing off the road.

What I figure? You're allowed to leave it out, or leave it on the street. But I'm allowed to run it over or steal it. They don't make those things out of metal anymore, kids.

Also, define "boulevard" - I've heard like nine different meanings for it.

entropic_existence		2008-10-24 09:01:12 AM

pnjunction: Wow. I don't know what to say. We MUST truck in our vegetables from far away in order to keep the neighbourhood beautiful? I could understand banning big plants within a metre of two of the sidewalk or road, but banning growing your own vegetables completely? Part of me will be happy to see this twisted system we have built crumble and collapse someday.

Actually I think what they are talking about is all technically city land, the little space of green lawn between the sidewalk and the street. People apparently have been treating it like their own property, which it isn't. You can greow what you want on your property, but not city property.