Here’s a quick listing of links from around the South Metro for your Friday reading pleasure. Please note that I have another fun project which will go live on Monday morning so be sure to look for it!
1. According to Thisweek, two men from the South Metro use a Christian radio program to swindle people, mainly senior citizens, out of their hard earned money so they could buy mansions, casinos, and gamble in the global market with other people’s money.
2. The Star Tribune reports that Burnsville fucked up regarding some special assessments it charged a group of homeowners with and believes that the lawsuit they filed in response is nothing more than an allegation. City Manager Craig Ebeling goes on to state that anyone can allege anything.
For once, there was an interesting and insightful comment posted to the Star Tribune’s comment section about the issue. Here is the most important part:
“Lawsuits are allegations,” Burnsville City Manager Craig Ebeling said. “Someone can allege anything.” Actually, no. The rules of professional conduct bar an attorney from bringing an action which does not have merit. Further, the city’s own admission on the record indicates it violated the law.
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posted by skeptic2209 on Dec. 3, 09 at 8:27 AM
3. Via my on-going RSS feeds of photos posted to Flickr from around the South Metro, a set of beautiful sunset photos from Apple Valley’s Long Lake Park at the end of November. Now that the snow has fallen, again, I’m ready for summer. How about you?
4. The MN Sun reports on a green car wash, the only of its kind in the state currently, that will be opening up in Lakeville. It will reclaim the water used during the wash and restore it to EPA standards for drinking.
Reader Crystal clued me into this car wash back when we were on the radio together. With washes in the $8 to $30 range, I don’t see why I wouldn’t try it being that I pay that much at the gas station already.
5. Thisweek delves deeper into the fiery shit storm (sorry) which surrounds the portable toilet fire in Rosemount. According to the article the group planned the arson for months yet when the time came their careful planning didn’t pan out and they got caught minutes after setting the shitter on fire.
I don’t know about you but a bunch of 20 year olds should be able to better plan an arson, after doing so for months, than these four morons did. Seriously, months, and you still fucked it up and got caught right away? Wow.
6. The Star Tribune reports on a shootout which occurred in Hastings between officers and deputies from multiple agencies and a single man, recently released from prison, whose family claims wanted to go out in a “blaze of glory”.
The description given is almost like a movie. Car chase, ramming, shooting, and eye witness accounts from a Perkins. So classic.
7. From local blogger Mikey Motherfawkin B comes a great visual look into the history of the Ramsey Mill in Hastings. MikeyB took a great set of photos from the mill in Hastings which can also be seen on world famous MinnPics.
8. Local blogger and reader Joey digs up a story about Kautz’s globe trotting in the name of global warming as part of her duties as VP of the pointless US Conference of Mayors group.
I wish she’d stay right here at home and concern herself with the major issues her own city is facing instead of overstepping her bounds with shit that she can’t do a fucking thing about.
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Well that’s it for this week’s South Metro News Roundup. Feel free to comment on about any of what I linked to above but I’m mainly interested in your thoughts on Burnsville City Manager Craig Ebeling’s comment that lawsuits are nothing more than allegations and the group that set the portable toilet on fire. Could those five people (Ebeling and the four arsonists) be any more dumb?
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December 4th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Further proof that Jesus hates old people.
December 4th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Re: Asses of Fire
So one of these geniuses is a former firefighter…and yet he doesn’t seem to have a basic understanding of how to set a fire? Kids these days. When they say “planned for months” do they mean actual research or they discussed it over a round of Dungeons and Dragons in someone’s mom’s basement?
December 4th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I believe they call that “rain.”
December 4th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Green car wash water… maybe they can also make a deal to sell the recycled water to Burnsville since our residents are used to drinking swill water given to us by private/public enterprises under the auspices of great thinking… and they can probably get a national award for it too.
December 6th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Nice article Jessica…
Welcome to Burnsville with a city motto of “‘We’re going to do this, and you’re going to pay.’ ” But do not forget, Mayor Kautz still insists that she listens to residents. Yeah right…..
Add this complete mismanagement of the city to the ongoing list of incompetence of Burnsville City Staff at the misguided leadership of the City Council.
The Mayor / Council direct staff to work with these home owners to resolve the issue and it results in a lawsuit which wastes more of both parties money. Job well done Mayor and City Staff!! Nice to see that the taxpayers of Burnsville get to pay for your continued screw ups, wasteful spending and legal defense.
http://www.twincities.com/dakota/ci_13930311
December 6th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Thought Leader, you beat me to the punch on that article. I feel sorry for the residents of Burnsville. On the other hand this makes me even more thankful that I moved out of that city 3 years ago. Unreal.
December 6th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Well, the good news is that the water will smell better if it is full of soap from the car wash! This is a win win situation and is indeed worthy of a national award! Congrats, forward thinking Burnsvillians!
December 8th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
A quick rant. Will you people please turn on your car lights when it is raining, snowing, generally low visibility? State law requires it, and no… your daytime running lights don’t cut it as they don’t turn on your tail lights, something helpful to keep people from smashing into the rear of your car.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=169.48
December 8th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I’ll concur with Mikeh’s rant, and add the following: People, if you don’t know by now what lane you need to be in to get to your destination safely, without making a last minute lane change, requiring me to take a defensive driving action, stay home. Out of towners get somewhat of a pass, but if you have a tag on your car that you purchased it at Apple Valley Ford or Burnsville Toyota, or some such, you should know the lay of the land by now, and should know, for example, that if you want to go to Red Robin in Apple Valley, you should be in the far left hand lane of southbound Cedar by, say the time you get to Cub Foods.
And: hang up the phones, please.