Let Me Have My Flamingos!

A Reddit story has Fred and the crew fired up after a lady put up flamingos outside of her home and her neighbors asked her to take them down.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Morality monantitus that you ready, Yes, okay, this comes from
our friends had read it, and he says, I bought
a house a couple of years ago, but I go
through hundreds of these. I mean, I truly curate these. Okay,
I want you to know, really, I don't just take
the first what you mean, really business, There's thousands of them. Look,
I don't keep them in business. I'm saying, I don't
just pick the first one I see. I'm going to

(00:21):
read a bunch of them to find the one that
I think is appropriate.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
You that's good, you know.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I mean it's like Kiki, she goes through thousands of cases. Yeah. Man,
it's hard it is to pick the ones worthy of
your courtroom. I bought a house a couple of years ago,
and I've been working on making it look nicer. I
spent a lot of time redoing the front gardens, trying
to make it look neat and nice. A few weeks ago, rather,
I was at a greenhouse buying some plants for the garden,

(00:46):
and I saw two yard flamingos marked down on clearance.
I knew that they belonged in my garden. They're not
everyone's cup of tea, but I think they're a lot
of fun, so I set them up when I got home,
and a couple days my neighbor was knocking on my
door and she was demanding I take down my flamingos
because they're ugly and lowering the property value of the neighborhood,

(01:08):
the neighbors said. I told her I am not taking
them down because I like them and the property value
isn't going to be hurt by two yard flamingos. I
also live in Hoa, and as far as I'm aware,
there are no town ordinances about yard flamingos. She's posted
pictures of my house, the street that I live on,
and a closeup of my flamingos in our town's Facebook

(01:29):
page to complain about them. Some people agreed I should
take them down. After that, another neighbor came over to
tell me to get rid of them. My mom also
agreed that I should take them down to keep the
peace with my neighbor. I like them. I smile when
I see them when I pull my driveway. I have
no plans to take them down. Should I take down
the yard flamingos, I'm well, okay, So we have a

(01:53):
case here we have an issue of a person who
apparently can put whatever they want in their front yard.
And I'm sure there are people listening who it's the
same way now. I'm also sure there are people listening
who live in an hoa, which means, you know, some
people get elected and they decide that they're like you know,
the police, and they come around and they get to
tell you what to do or you can't do this,
you can't do that. I'm you are.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, I'm the treasurer shop.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Stop it.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I like when you look at me, stop, but hey,
I don't play about my bag or my hoa.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Stop. They put you in charge of the money.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I think nobody wanted to do it.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Like I think nobody wanted to do it either as well.
I'm on it though.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I stepped up and I said, I'll be your girl.
I don't even live there anymore, and.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'll be your girl. And you're of the money for
the h you are I am. Now, you're a smart lady.
But like we can't get you to tell us what
number the showdown is every day?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Right, and so.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Money be missing, money be up and down. How much
money we have it depends on the day. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
See money moves around for a reason.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
And if you guys might see a new fence at
the hoa at the new property.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Mind your business. If you do, mind your business. If
you don't.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's actually not allowed to use Venmo because she was
trying to money launder using it.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Or her credit card. I'll love her husband. Yeah it's
a husband's credit card.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Oh wow, that's okay. All right. So you like yard flamingos,
you put yard flamingos up. You want them in your yard.
There is no one that can tell you that you
cannot have them. However, your neighbors all apparently think they're ugly,
and even your mom is like, it's not worth it
to make all the neighbors mad. What do you do?

(03:31):
What do you do? Do you keep them up? I
might suggest maybe the backyard or something where everyone doesn't
have to look at them, because is it really worth
I mean, you bought these things on clearance. It wasn't
like it was your life ambition to have a yard
with garden or with flamingos in them, or garden homes
or whatever your thing is, So why not put them

(03:52):
somewhere where everyone doesn't have to look at them and
they're not an ice sore, and then your neighbors don't
hate you.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
No, you're not gonna tell me what color to paint
my house, how to have my lawn. If I want
my flamingos, I own this heer yard, I'm gonna have
my flamingos. I do also feel envious of the woman
who's biggest.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Problem is her neighbor's lawn flamingos. Right, Like, go out
and find a real problem in your life.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
That's ridiculous, right, that's my that's my experience.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, you work really hard to save up for this
house or whatever it is, like, and you're gonna tell
me I can out my clear and flamingos up. But
that makes me so angry.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, I feel like, but if they're that ugly that
everybody seems to agree, then I might say, is it
really worth it? Is it really worth it? Is this
the hill you want to die on with your neighbors?

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Is this the hill they want to die on?

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah? But I mean, whether it's fair or not, if
the entire neighborhood turns on you, you have a problem,
whether it's right or not, I'd be.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Like, are you guys okay, right, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
You can't control everybody, and everybody doesn't have to be
the same. Mmm, this is my house. Is this any
different than a person who doesn't take very good care
of their lawn? Is this any different than a person
who doesn't take very good care of their house and
you do? Is this any different than that? I mean,
it's creating an eyesore, right, so people don't like it.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Even then, I don't care, like it's your lawn. Beauty
is in the eye of the beholder. Okay, wonderful, right,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
I want to see your front lawn you have? Do
you have what's in your front yard?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
A couple of bushes? And I keep my lawn trimmed,
and that's it.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm not getting jazzy with it.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
But if I wanted to.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Get jazzy with it, I would I pay these property taxes?

Speaker 1 (05:25):
That's right?

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Girl?

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Do you have an chi a no? A man. They
won't let you get away with anything.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
No, we won't, No, she won't.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Hey, Jessica, you say, go buy more? I absolutely do
you know what? It's my yard?

Speaker 2 (05:42):
I pay for this stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'm buying more.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Go off?

Speaker 1 (05:46):
I mean, I guess I guess you know, I'm not
much of a rule follower, but I also would be like, okay,
is this really worth it? Because if everyone's ganging up
on me and it's it's an untenable situation. You do
not want the whole neighborhood against you. You simply don't bad.
It's you know, it's more worth it to do it then,
because you know what I didn't do nothing put up

(06:07):
with you? All right, all right, fair enough, thank you, Jessica.
Now if you remember, Jason's having an issue in his
backyard with his coy pond, which is have so boogie
to say, and you've got pterodactyl birds flying down trying
to eat the koi fish, right, so you put up.
You've tried many different things, and what you what you've

(06:28):
landed on is one of those if you like, drive
by like an auto part store, the place that they're
still tires or whatever, Like the big tall looking thing
with the on the bottom of it. Yeah, and it's
sort of like it looks like it's having convulsions or whatever. Yeah,
is it working? It seems to be working. Yeah. That
being said, all your neighbors get to see the sky dancer. Yeah,

(06:48):
if you look at it.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
Luckily it's in our backyard and not in front of
our house, which would be wild. But yeah, I'm sure
everyone that has a backyard near ours is like what
the hell you know?

Speaker 1 (06:59):
And so has a problem with it. I know you.
If someone has a problem with it, you're going to
consider their problem, you know what. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
I feel like there's I am a people pleaser, but
like you don't own a lot of things in life, right,
like and if you can get to a point where
you own your own property, like I feel like within
the law, like you you should be able to do
what you want. Like if you're talking about like your
house being like run down or busted, or your.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Low running a meth operation or something, you shouldn't do that, like.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
Your lawn being unkept or something like that, Like those
are ordinances against that, like the village will but like
just some decorations like that's not against any rules.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
I have flamingos in front of my my meth RV cooking.
The flamingos are not the problem at that point. All
it's the meth. Yeah, but I like them, and I
like the meth.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Business.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Who are you going to take them from me Let's
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