Dad Caves to Condo Board, Destroys Snow Fort

If it took him 10 hours to tear it down this tells me that the snow had become packed Ice. Such a structure would pose a danger to most people especially children. Should it collaps while occupied, a 2 and/or 3 year old could be seriously injured and possibly killed.
He was a nut for letting them play there in the first place.

Ol' Joe

Well he could have gone to court.. by the time it is heard.. it would be summer and melted! lol

If you have to take an ax to something.. it means it can't be taken down easily.
Next thing you know the insurance company will tell people you can't have snow in your yard in Canada.. someone may get hurt!

Bet it was an American insurance company! lol

I used to live in a condo and we had problems with the condominium management firm all the time, even for things that were not forbidden... and it always had to do with an "insurance" issue. When they decided 4 years after we moved there that it was a problem for the kids to ride their bikes on the property we finally moved. I seriously doubt everything was the "insurance issue" they always claimed, but it gave them ground to stand on, so we bought our own ground. Oh, and I am an American... so Karol... bite me!

All Condo associations suck!!

"Half of me is upset, the other half is just laughing at it because it's so ridiculous. Like give me a break, guys, you're telling me to tear down my kids' snow fort?"______________Yes, the world doesn't revolve around your kids. Sorry you spent so much time on the fort when you didn't even have permission to build it there in the first place. If this had been a junked out car, nobody would complain that the owners wanted it removed. Sh** happens, the father should just take it as a learning experience. I hope he does, I am sick of so many of these parents thinking "what's yours is my kid's". I can understand the disappointment but am siding with the property owners on this one.

that sucks. people can't do a damn thing anymore, they should have just let them keep it. he should have sued the condo board, and got monitary compensation, for pain and suffering the condo board cause his kids.

Very well said I agree.Will the condo next ban children from playing outside The situation sucks

TIME SPENT WITH CHILDREN BUILDING, PLAYING AND TEARING DOWN FORT PRICELESS

I would have taken a big steamy dump in that fort and taught this family what self entitlment feels like when it coming from the other side. Boo hoo they wouldn't let him build somewhere that wasn't even his.

Democracy in America has beeen slowly fading for the past 40 years. There is far, far, and I mean really far too much government inteference in our personal lives -- Soon, Big Brother will be telling you when you can and cannot go to the bathroom. America's industrial base was transferred to foreign countries, leaving her with a service-based economy. The services have been growing and will continue growing. Soon, about 40% of America's jobs will be with the government. The more employees in government, the more functions they have to invent to justify their jobs.

yeah..there is one down the street from me. their garage doors are ugly brown. god forbid if you paint it. you have to have the same color mulch too. god forbid if you want a different color. i hate those idiots.

i sorta want to buy a house there and paint it a vibrant yellow and use black mulch and hang my clothes on the line AND paint my garage door and trim a really nice blue .

just because they need a kick in the pants.

If you don't like HOAs, don't buy a home in a community that has HOAs. Everyone who buys a house in a community with an HOA must first sign a contract stating that they have read the community covenants, and agree to abide by them. The real tyranny comes not from HOAs but from people living in a non-HOA community who demand governmental zoning changes that restrict anything from their neighbors from parking old cars to putting up chain link fences to requiring that driveways be paved, and more!

did you mention "no outdoors clotheline"??
i'm also fed-up and selling!!

I also live in a comm. with a HOA!!! NO LAWS to keep us safe from the "BOARD MEMBERS" . HOA's are seperate littile goverments witn NO RULES from either the states or the FED. GOV:T. to reign them in . STAND UP PEOPLE ,FIGHT BACK, I DID AND I WON IN COURT!!!!

Where I think the issue here was a little crazy and don't believe it would have been covered in the rules, my suggestion would be that people read the rules of the association before they buy a house/condo and if they don't like the rules, then don't buy there.

i guarantee that the documents for their community do not forbid "the building or contruction of snow forts or snow structures" if the condo mgmt association wants to prohibit such activity, then they need to specifically state in the documents or rules and regulations.also i believe they would have to bring the issue up for a vote of the members of the community. I would have told them to go to hell (nd they can try to sue me as they would not have a case. as it was not specifically forbidden to constuct or build snow forts or structures in the documents that these people most likely had to sign before moving into community..

Oh, yeah! I looked at a condo in a development and I was told by the HOA committee chairman that I was not allowed to have more than one pet, and that one pet had to weigh less than 35 lbs! I said I had two indoor cats, and they were together less than 20 lbs, and what did he say? ONE pet... get rid of one of your cats! Oh HELL no! I said thanks but no thanks!