Humor for the day

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JosephW (Michigan)
Posts: 882

Posted:

"In Gilroy, CA, yesterday, A woman who lived in the house had put her puppy out in the backyard, but went to check on it when it wouldn't stop barking, Stanford said. When the woman reached down to pick up the dog, she saw the young cougar sitting on the fence.

It had been eating the dog food left out in the yard, Stanford said.

The woman went inside and called the president of the homeowner's association...
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This is where I stopped reading and started laughing. I guess the lady expected the HOA prez to come over with a leash and escort the cougar off the property, or maybe to bring a gun and shoot it. Add this to the list of HOA President's duties, just make sure it's in the documents.

Continuing with the story.......
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"....who in turn called police, Stanford said.

Police secured the area, but since the animal didn't appear to be an immediate threat, officers had time to secure the area and wait for the city's animal control officer to arrive with tranquilizer darts.

The mountain lion was successfully tranquilized, placed into a large cage and turned over to California Department of Fish and Game wardens.

According to Stanford, the wardens said the animal would be evaluated and, if found to be healthy, it would likely be released back into the wild in a less populated area"

Joe

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LindaC3 (Florida)
Posts: 526

Posted:

JosephW...... Good story...Now for what happens in our HOA..... We are actually suppose to call someone here in our HOA....so we know the location of any wildlife here...We are a heavily wooded place and to date we have sighted bobcats and their babies....SO CUTE.....A large Florida Panther.... and when My grand daughter was visiting commented about a big black cat we had....which we don't-- and come to find out there are black bobcats in florida.... My yellow lab brought me a strange carcass of an animal that to date the gane warden cannot identify,,,the carcass sits in my freezer and has become the talk of the community....We actually wanted to have shirts made up calling it the lost cupachabra .......LOL.......It's too cool that we can live where wild life still has a chance......have a good one and keep the funnies coming LindaC3

GloriaM (North Carolina)
Posts: 829

Posted:

Joseph:

A fire hydrant was leaking or should I say gushing water on a weekend. The Owner affected by the hydrant called our voicemail and left several messages on the Manager's voicemail. Of course, he would not have gotten the message until Monday when he returned to work.

We have an emergency voice mail, that if someone leaves a message it will be forwarded to whomever is on duty that weekend. He didn't leave the message in our "emergency voicemail" therefore no one received his message until Monday.

These are single family homes in city maintained streets. Who would you have called? Water Department? Police?

I am posting this because it sounds like humor but its sad to see that if someone's car is broken into they call the MC first or President. Yes, the President or MC should be made aware of it, but call the proper authorities first.

If its fire call the fire department, if its an animal call animal control...then afterwards report it to the HOA.

NancyD1 (Florida)
Posts: 447

Posted:

We also got the homeowner who call on the weekend about the Fl Panthers running around the golf course. She called the ice President because she thought Critter Control would be off on a Sunday.

A homeowner wanted our maintenance men to go on the golf course and get alligator that was sunning himself on the 14th hole. She was afraid to let her grandchildren go out and play.

The best one happened a few weeks ago. The President got a call at 10:30pm one night. It was a new homeowner and she wanted him to come over because her toilet was leaking all over. When he told her it was her home and she had to call a plumber she started screaming at him that she was going to call the HOA board to report him as non - responsive to her problems. These are single family homes.

A Saturday afternoon I received a call from a homeowner that said she had a geyser in her backyard and the water was so heavily flooding her yard that it was draining into her pool along with the mud. We had been having problems with our sprinkler system connections because of a change from lake water to reclaimed. If the joints break they were throwing off some heavy water. I asked her if she had called the emergency telephone number. She hadn't but I called for her and I told her it may take awhile because it was a weekend. An hour later she called me and was hysterical about the water and her husband had to put towels near the pool to catch all the crap going in it. Then she called the Presidents wife and gave her a hard time.

Monday morning I asked the maintenance man if he got the call about the water. He went to the house and it seems the husband was planting flowers and he cut through a water line. She wanted the HOA to pay to have her pool man clean the muck out of the pool.

We have a lot of them. I keep saying we should publish them in our funny column in our newsletter, not using any names.

DuaneW1 (Georgia)
Posts: 34

Posted:

This is so reassuring to read other neighborhoods having homeowners expecting Board Members to be in charge of everything! There was almost a gang fight in our neighborhood last October and a resident when she saw guns being pulled out called ME! I told her if she saw something dangerous, to remember my number is 9-1-1.

We have an owner who was still residing in New York (she'd come down every few months to take care of her house) during a weird chill we had here in Atlanta in the Spring call angry (in June) that I had not removed the plastic she had placed around her plants and now she felt the HOA should pay for new plants. We didn't of course, but it didn't matter much, it would turn out she hadn't taken the time to take them out of the pots she bought them in either, so it's difficult to tell what actually killed the plants. Weather warming up, or boredom from pot rot.

It's hard to understand why people think the HOA is some kind of maintenance fund just awaiting their particular orders, and the Board itself, lackeys.

JackieB (California)
Posts: 198

Posted:

I can see why the need for "Assisted living" is becoming more popular.

DonN (Michigan)
Posts: 357

Posted:

Nice to hear that Joe has maintained his sense of humor.

This is what happens when owners association try to run other people's lives with their rules and regulations. Sort of a tit for tat here. If you want to run my life, then take care of the cougar.

Einstein's philosophy is that everything should be as simple as possible but no simpler. It is good advice for owners associations. The rules and regulations should be as simple as possible (and as few as possible) and no simpler.

My personal view is that volunteer board members shouldn't do anything for owners/members they can do for themselves.

I agree with Ms. Martinez' post.

Don Nordeen
Governance of Property Owners Associations

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