Can you believe that some guy is trying to protest people helping a family clean up their yard?

Question

In Leavenworth Kansas on the Leavenworth times blog. A man complained against having a little humanity and helping a neighbor in need. He plans on trying to get a news crew and protesters against people helping clean up a yard tomorrow October 6th 2007. I was wondering how many of you agree with the man and how many agree with humanity and what you think people should do about such a thing.

Answer 1

he needs  JESUS   ,  if i was there my church and  i would roll up our sleeves and help for the LORD says love our neighbors as our self

Answer 2

Publicity and attention is all it is about. No one will even take that seriously. If he does get a news crew to do it, they will only do it to make a mockery of him.

Answer 3

Obviously, there's more to the story...

"The motives of the person who submitted the information for that brief have been called into question by several bloggers on the Times’ Web site. Additionally, John Anderson approached the Times yesterday to voice his concerns.

Anderson said that the organizer of the cleanup, Wayne Nesmith, has a tie to the property and its tenants. Anderson said that he believes Nesmith is attempting to exploit the generosity of others to benefit the property.

He also said that the property’s current tenants are young, healthy people who should be able to take care of their own home."

Sorry, but I don't support the "welfare mentality" either...

Answer 4

I just read the story you cited. The current tenants on the property are young and able-bodied. If the property is so disheveled looking that it needs a cleanup crew of people to come in and do it, then it is using the strength of decent folks to take care of the chore that lazy slobs don't want to do. That's not humanity. That's a sweat labor version of a Nigerian e-mail scam!

Answer 5

There was a similar case in Maryland or San Jose a few years back (I forget which as I read the news in both places reguarly).

Unkempt yards reduce property value and bring in vermin - rats, etc.

So neighbors are generally glad to see it cleaned, and in fact may call on the city if no one private does it. ther are usually ordinances against too much trash in the yard.

Finally, the tenants may be able-bodied, but they may not be of sound mind, as was the case Iin SJ or MD....there is nothing in the article you cited that raised the issue one way or another, but there is more then one mental illness that could result in abnormal hording to the point where it overflows a yard.

I don't know if the info is still there, but folks might want to google "ebay mom" and seee a good example of a guy's chronicle of his clearly ill mother's hording behavior.

Sheesh - if people don't want to help their neighbors and they don't want their neighbors to have help, then what kind of peopl are those?