City to Send out Notices to Chronic Grass and Weed Violators..

from the City Email letter,

As part of the City of Rocky Mount's ongoing efforts to abate the public nuisance caused by overgrown grass and weeds, during the week of March 17, 2014, the Public Works and Water Resources Department will mail annual notices to chronic violators of the city's grass & weed ordinance. As defined in the city's ordinances, a chronic violator is any person who owns property whereupon, in the previous calendar year, the city took action at least three times to abate grass/weed violations.  The notice will advise property owners that the City will, without further notice, take action to abate the violation with the cost of such action to be charged to the property owner.

The Community Code Division has identified 550 properties that have met this criteria and where the property owner will receive a chronic violator notice. Grass/weeds in excess of 18 inches constitutes a public nuisance and is detrimental to public health, safety or welfare in that such conditions lead to unsightliness, infestation of rodents, birds, snakes, insects and decrease property values.

Residents or property owners with questions regarding these notices or the City's public health, safety and nuisance ordinances may contact the Community Code Division at 252-467-4952. You may also visit the city's website at www.rockymountnc.gov/publicworks. 

Now the problem is, the city uses this as a get some extra cash for the summertime scheme..

And they don’t measure to see if your weeds are at the 18 inch mark either. Then again the one who are doing the cutting need a horticulture classes. Cause these so-called city workers can’t tell which is which. They will mow down your Fig Trees, iris, lilac bush, tulips, and your tea rose bushes too.. If you are a garden they will cut that down too. They have to protect you from the killer tomatoes.

Which are not weeds are grass.. but these low paying workers just don’t care..

Someone in the RMT PD office have their thinking cap on..

It would seem that RMPD has decide to get those car thieves once and for all. Yes, and they have a plan. Which has been used in other cities across the US. What is it, and will it really work?

It would seem that RMPD will start using Bait Cars.. Yes Bait Cars to catch those car thieves.

Now you ask what is a Bait Car, here is the 411 on that.

A bait car, also called a hot car, is a vehicle used by law enforcement agencies to capture car thieves. The vehicles are modified, with features including GPS tracking and audio/video surveillance technology, and can be remotely monitored and controlled. A "kill switch" may be installed in the vehicle allowing police to remotely disable the engine and lock all doors from the inside, preventing escape.

The bait car, often filled with valuable items to draw attention to it, is parked in a high auto-theft area. In some cases, the vehicle may be simply left unlocked with the keys in the ignition. When the car is stolen, officers are immediately alerted, and can monitor the vehicle and send commands to control it such as disabling the engine, locking the doors or honking the horn. Live audio/video streaming devices may be installed allowing law enforcement personnel to determine how many suspects are in the car, what they are planning and if they are armed.

I hope this will work, but they (RMPD) need to go after some the car salvage yards owner too. There are a few in and near the City limits, who will take the car as junk and pay the person with out the person having a title or showing ID. Which is against the law, but these owners don’t care, cause the cops never charge them. Even after finding stolen cars and trucks on their lots