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gnomiAs mabfan mentioned recently, the Brookline Tab reported that there have been wild turkeys chasing people in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline.
Today,mabfan reports the presence of coyotes in the area, who are now menacing the turkeys. And he suggests a game of Food Chain, proposing the introduction of whatever predator eats coyotes. In comments, jesshartley suggests elephants.
And for a while now, I've been somewhat irked by the presence of a provision in the Brookline town bylaws that allows any Brookline resident who collects 10 signatures from town residents to get a Citizen's Petition in front of Town Meeting. Not that I have problems with the provision itself -- it is important that the citizens of Brookline have a mechanism by which they can bring an issue to Town Meeting. But in the past it has been, in my view, abused by people who didn't get the response they wanted the first time they brought an issue to Town Meeting. So I've been thinking of issues I could make Town Meeting discuss. For example, I considered bringing a Citizen's Petition that Town Meeting declare a town-wide Pizza Day, encouraging town residents to patronize local pizza places on a certain date. I then considered what fun it might be to have the Town Meeting Members debate the relative merits of various toppings.
But now, I've got an even better idea! Brookline Town Meeting can debate adjusting the townwide parking regulations to allow for parking one's elephant! Should one be allowed to park one's elephant for more than two hours without being ticketed? Shall we allow Overnight Elephant Parking, or should elephant owners be forced to find off-street parking for their elephants? And would elephants be allowed off-leash during the same hours that dogs are allowed in parks off their leashes?
Contact your local Town Meeting Member and ask them their stand on the Elephant Issues of the day!
mabfan mentioned recently, the Brookline Tab reported that there have been wild turkeys chasing people in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline.Today,
mabfan reports the presence of coyotes in the area, who are now menacing the turkeys. And he suggests a game of Food Chain, proposing the introduction of whatever predator eats coyotes. In comments, jesshartley suggests elephants.And for a while now, I've been somewhat irked by the presence of a provision in the Brookline town bylaws that allows any Brookline resident who collects 10 signatures from town residents to get a Citizen's Petition in front of Town Meeting. Not that I have problems with the provision itself -- it is important that the citizens of Brookline have a mechanism by which they can bring an issue to Town Meeting. But in the past it has been, in my view, abused by people who didn't get the response they wanted the first time they brought an issue to Town Meeting. So I've been thinking of issues I could make Town Meeting discuss. For example, I considered bringing a Citizen's Petition that Town Meeting declare a town-wide Pizza Day, encouraging town residents to patronize local pizza places on a certain date. I then considered what fun it might be to have the Town Meeting Members debate the relative merits of various toppings.
But now, I've got an even better idea! Brookline Town Meeting can debate adjusting the townwide parking regulations to allow for parking one's elephant! Should one be allowed to park one's elephant for more than two hours without being ticketed? Shall we allow Overnight Elephant Parking, or should elephant owners be forced to find off-street parking for their elephants? And would elephants be allowed off-leash during the same hours that dogs are allowed in parks off their leashes?
Contact your local Town Meeting Member and ask them their stand on the Elephant Issues of the day!
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Date: 2006-03-30 05:34 pm (UTC)On the trunk, of course! :-)
And most of Brookline doesn't have resident stickers, so it's less of an issue for Brookline's elephants.