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All of this is way off-topic, but I can't hold back:
That reminds me of the "Health" Department here that bitches about cutting your grass/weeds so the neighborhood looks nice to their standards, even though it isn't in any sense a health matter, and even though my father and I are both cardiac patients, and even though there are, of late, bothheat and smog emergencies here (both of us get hassled every year, without fail)... At least they subsume their whining under civil law and haven't resorted to beating people over it (yet) like this poor woman. F**k the neighbors' love of golf-course-looking-plots. I don't propose to be buried in one to satisfy their vanity or to boost their real estate appraisals.
-ljp