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HOA Orders TARDIS Removed From In Front of Parrish Home

Posted by samzenpus on from the exterminate-exterminate-exterminate dept.

An anonymous reader writes A Florida couple learned that they are much bigger fans of Doctor Who than their homeowner association, after receiving a notice to remove the TARDIS from their driveway. Leann Moder and her husband David were given 15 days to get rid of the big blue box. From the article: "It was built by Moder's father as a wedding set piece, and she and her husband, David, were married in front of it. 'My husband mentioned, "Do you want to do a Doctor Who themed wedding?"' Moder said. 'That could be fun.' Since then, their TARDIS has been used at sci-fi conventions and parties, and was even the focus of a Halloween haunt the Moders set up on their driveway in October." The HOA had no comment on their stance on sonic screwdrivers, or the Eye of Harmony.

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  1. Remove the goddamn box by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Leaving a TV prop replica sitting in your driveway is douchey. Store it in the garage, or your storage shed, or the back yard, or a storage facility. Nobody in your neighborhood likes Doctor Who so much that they want to come home to your driveway TARDIS every day. Stop being a douche.

  2. Re:Conform or be expelled by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you don't want to conform, don't buy a home there.

    HOAs are completely up front about those things and if you don't read the bylaws before buying, you're a dumb motherfucker.

  3. Re:Conform or be expelled by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not in my case. I didn't see the bylaws of my HOA until I had been it's president for 18 months. It didn't help that it was in a messed up master-sub association hierarchy intended to leave the power in the hands of the developer, so there were multiple sets of rules flying around, only a subset of of which were passed to homeowners.

    Fortunately, that leaves the HOA relatively powerless if it comes to a lawsuit and my goal as president was to stop the crazies trying to use the HOA as a tool to crap on their neighbors and settle old differences.

    HOAs are evil, in that they are perfectly constructed to set neighbor against neighbor. We would be better off without them.
     

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