Stuff that came out of somebody's basement and was just left there. It's disgusting, and it's gotten worse. It looks like a junkyard out there. The lawn chair claim-staking even crept downtown this year, with people trying to stake out the concrete turf in front of department stores days before the parade. Volm says that's a first.
Laws can take care of that.
But sometimes we need to find a way to demand civility of one another. The trouble is, we can't have a law that says it's illegal to be a jerk. Mich. Timothy Joseph Boomer of suburban Detroit shouted a string of obscenities in front of two small children after falling out of his canoe. Boomer argues that it violates his freedom of speech. Laws are really all we have.