I would have tried at least to ask the guard for his name and tell them you are going to file a police report for stolen ball. They have the right to ask you to stop but not to confiscate property. I would normally think this was a waste of police time but in a low crime country this is a big case.richard III wrote:Hi all:
I wish there is a debate on this, just to make some noise. I have just come from a bbq in the makena condo with the following result. We joined some friends with our 7 year olds, for a bbq. The kids brought their soccer ball to play in the grass, to our surprise, the guards came and just took the ball from the kids without even talking to us (the adults). When I went to ask for the ball I was told that it was forbidden for the kids to play in the common areas. No kidding, that was their answer. So when I enquired where is it stated, there was no answer, that they needed to talk to the tenant if I wanted the ball back. So I had to bother our friend to retreive the ball. To make the story short, he was told that they needed his unit number in order to impose a $50 fine,, so my response was to stick the ball where it fitted best, since I can buy two balls for that kind of money.
My point is that adults can take this kind of abuse, but kids!!come on, what kind of place is this. Would you want your kids to grow in a place like this? I can even buy the obsession they have with regulations here, but this is beyond belief. Just hope to make a point to all prospective tenants in the makena.....beware if you have kids. And a lesson to be learned, read the condo's regs before you rent. I can take the abuse of someone trying to screw me out of my deposit money...but my kids do not this this kind of insult.
We have a large (maybe 50'x25') patch of grass that looks like a putting green but is surrounded by signs that say "No stepping, No playing, No balls, No pets" It's clearly just for looking at. I just figured they had a pre-conceived notion about North Americans all wanting a pristine lawn to be proud of.BigSis wrote:Condo management are notoriously narrow minded. There is probably some kind of 'no football' rule at the Makena but it was no doubt brought in to being by a bunch of rowdy teenagers kicking a ball around rather than a bunch of 7 year olds but the guards are too jobsworthy to be able to spot the difference.
At our place the residents used to moan constantly about the teenagers playing football on the grass and the teenagers used to moan about the fact that there was a putting green there that nobody used and yet they wouldn't turn it into a football area for them.
Eventually they turned the badminton courts into a 'multipurpose' area which is now mainly used for football and yet the putting green is still there, doing nothing - I've lived here for 8 years and seen one guy using it only once in that time. The football area is only able to be used by one group at a time though and so it's usually the teenagers who hog it and the smaller kids still play football around the common areas.
I suppose the management, in their wisdom, think that the putting green looks nicer now than if they put up high fences and made it a football area despite the fact that nobody's interested in using it as it is and loads of people would use it as a second football area
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