Man gets realistic picture of his boat painted on fence intended to hide it
www.nbcnews.com
Etienne Constable was told to build a 6-foot fence to hide the boat from view of his neighbors — but he got an image of the boat painted onto the fence.
  • BuffaloxEnglish
    149·
    10 months ago

    For Christ sake, I’d go nuts if I had to see a discreetly parked boat everyday when I drive by on my way to work.
    Good thing the homeowner association town had some common sense here. /S

    all boats are discretely parked otherwise.

    • jqubedEnglish
      64·
      11 months ago

      Interestingly this one was actually a town ordinance, not an HOA rule!

      • BuffaloxEnglish
        42·
        11 months ago

        Corrected, and that makes it even more crazy IMO.

        • RealFknNitoEnglish
          24·
          11 months ago

          When HOA Karens actually move up in the world only to fuck it up for a larger area.

    • ohwhatfollyismanEnglish
      20·
      10 months ago

      … if I had to see a discretely parked boat…

      fyi: discreetly parked.

      all boats are discretely parked otherwise.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        17·
        10 months ago

        I dunno, you “park” with enough velocity and you could definitely describe the location of the boat as a distribution.

        EDIT: When I wrote this comment I tried to imagine how one would do this. Perhaps against a rocky shore, or falling off a trailer on the highway? But then these guys came into my recommendation feed and said, “nah, like this”: https://youtu.be/zlFH3aC7Z_c?t=741

    • ccunningEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      Etienne Constable, from Seaside, California, was told in July last year by local government officials that he had to build a 6-foot fence to hide the boat from view of his neighbors.

      Good thing the homeowner association local government had some common sense here. /S

      FTFY

  • samus12345English
    62·
    11 months ago

    I would have liked to find out why this ordinance exists. It makes no sense to me.

    • BoinkageEnglish
      53·
      11 months ago

      Retired neighbors with nothing better to do.

      • samus12345English
        15·
        11 months ago

        The neighbors complained because they have nothing better to do, but why was the ordinance created in the first place?

        • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.caEnglish
          321·
          10 months ago

          Because the neighbours with nothing better to do vote in every single election and are therefore more important to not piss off. Fuck NIMBYs.

    • RevonultEnglish
      381·
      10 months ago

      So the neighborhood doesn’t look like a getto full of people too poor to keep their boats in the marina like decent fokes.

      • DelphiaEnglish
        111·
        10 months ago

        Theres a newish neighbourhood near me with a high percentage of reasonably cashed up retired people… nice houses with 2 car garages on small blocks. Every other house has a caravan or a boat and they almost all park them on the street.

        Some of the streets have been effectively reduced to one lane in both directions, sure its legal but its a giant pain in the balls to get around.

          • DelphiaEnglish
            10·
            10 months ago

            Yeah, Ill just tell the whole suburb that they dont get any services from the city anymore. Not a problem champ.

        • Zorque@kbin.social
          42·
          10 months ago

          I mean, if you can afford a boat you can also probably afford a lot of other nice things.

          Unless you spent all your money on the boat, and thus can’t afford things like storage for said boat…

  • BOMBSEnglish
    23·
    10 months ago

    That is a fantastic painting! The artist nailed it.