KANSAS CITY CHICKEN CONFISCATION CONTROVERSY FOLLOW-UP: "THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T CALL THE FUCKING CITY!!!"
Politicos and city officials always push the 311 Action Center Line as the panacea but, obviously, in a great many instances we notice that any involvement with local government just makes things worse.
Check out this heartbreaking clip that shows the frustration of a local resident upon learning that Kansas City, Missouri confiscated her chickens.
Troy Schulte Kansas City Animal Control Nightmare
This story isn't really about chickens. The controversy is about one of many households in Kansas City alienated and frustrated by the actions of their local government and a system they seem to feel doesn't operate equitably. That sentiment transcends so many demographic distinctions and it's at the core of most Kansas City problems.
Previously . . .
KANSAS CITY EPIC FIGHT WITH ANIMAL CONTROL OVER CHICKENS & PIT BULLS!!!
TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! KANSAS CITY MAN CLAIMS ANIMAL CONTROL KILLED HIS BABY CHICKENS UNJUSTLY!!!
This is why you dont call the city, the cops, anybody. Once your introduced to the city system your screwed.
ReplyDeleteI see a political scandal and lawsuit taking shape. Chickengate.
ReplyDeleteAs nutty as this sounds when you watch the video, there is some truth in the frustration, fear and anger these folks are feeling.
ReplyDeleteI actually think Tony is right here.
There is a disconnect.
Pit Bulls, mean thugs are present.
If you live in a neighborhood with dangerous criminals and pit bulls, god bless ya.
If you live in neighborhood with thugs running the show and you are raising chickens for chrissakes, you are screaming, "I am a white powerless persson who is ready to be taken advantage of!"
The part in the video where she is going to go "over there" is the only thing that makes sense actually.
Wait till 3AM, get your Mosberg and go fuckin blow those dogs away.
Or move.
That is the ONLY thing those fuckin pukes will understand and if you are not ready for that kind of life, you gotta get out.
It is what it is.
City Hall is really largely irrelevant in it's ability to deal reasonably and nimbly with quality of life issues that effect residents.
ReplyDeleteThe people who just want to quietly go about their business, pay their taxes, and be free from unreasonable inference are caught between the bureaucratic quagmire of City Hall and the chaos imposed on them by the criminals and other ne'er do wells that seem to have more rights than anyone else.
And when it's all said and done, those will be the only ones left in KC.
Until then you have to take matters into your own hands.
That really is what it's coming down to in KC
WTF? Stop raising chickens in the city - move to the country if you want poultry!
ReplyDeleteIronically, the presence of chickens, livestock and subsistence gardens in KC's downtown core was once viewed as blighting and was largely responsible for the urban renewal programs of the late 50's, 60's and 70's that took (through eminent domain and for pennies on the dollar) the homes of thousands of minority residents, displacing them into the new social experiment called public housing.
ReplyDeleteI guess when the chickens and goats are owned by urban hipsters, that makes it okay.
9:09 AM-I call bullshit on most of your comment.
ReplyDelete"displacing them into the new social experiment called public housing."
Thats called welfare.
Taking anyone's property for pennies on the dollar is wrong.
Animal control destroying your property to make you shut up and go away is equally wrong.
@9:09 Call it what you want but it doesn't change the historical facts.
ReplyDeleteYou can start educating yourself by reading The Power Broker by Robert Caro and, for a local perspective, A City Without Slums by Kevin Fox Gotham.
Public housing as we know it today is a post WWII phenomenon arising out of center city business interests teaming with the freeway builders to repurpose largely lower-income, poorly educated minority neighborhoods into something they thought would be beneficial.
The displaced communities were promised housing in the new "public" housing- thus, in many ways, planting the seed for the entitlement attitude prevalent in many second, third and fourth generation public housing tenants.
11:28 AM-the sources you state make for some interesting reading, at least in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteThe last line of your comment,
"I guess when the chickens and goats are owned by urban hipsters, that makes it okay."
along with the
"displacing them into the new social experiment called public housing."
portion would suggest diminishing the current plight of the "hipster chicken dude" is justified by the earlier plight of minorities displaced during a "social housing" experiment.
When the simple fact is that no citizen, regardless of race, should be subject to a city employees retribution on any scale, for any reason. Especially a citizen complaining about dangerous dogs roaming his property.
Bad news for people who want to move into the city. Don't bother
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck is wrong with our city government?
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of shit we would expect from the Funk. Petty vindictiveness from anyone that complains and does not fall in line.
Will Sly actually kick city government into shape?
Why is the Star so quiet on Chick Gate? Who are they protecting?
the etax is paying off with all those services.
ReplyDelete11:28
ReplyDeleteIs right. I grew up at 37th and Chestnut. The folks who used to live where the mid town freeway (71) is now, were forced out of their homes to make way for a highway, that wasn't built for 30 years.
We were the last white family on the block in 1959 except for the Hammonds. After his dad got the shit beat outa him bad, I mean bad, and my mom got attacked, we moved. But all those folks who moved in, were forced there by the freeway and emminent domain.
Just is what it is.
The city displaced them.
"11:28
ReplyDeleteIs right. I grew up at 37th and Chestnut. The folks who used to live where the mid town freeway (71) is now, were forced out of their homes to make way for a highway, that wasn't built for 30 years.
We were the last white family on the block in 1959 except for the Hammonds. After his dad got the shit beat outa him bad, I mean bad, and my mom got attacked, we moved. But all those folks who moved in, were forced there by the freeway and emminent domain.
Just is what it is.
The city displaced them."
That was a state (MODOT) not city project.