Council to ratepayers: cross us and we'll get out the backhoe ...
How's does the Toowoomba City Council deal with non-complying ratepayers?
It gets out the backhoe!
And so it did to teach Marie Quinn a lesson.
She may have failed to pay her rates from time to time and her roses may grow a bit higher than the Council would prefer, but for 25 years she has been a permanent fixture on visitors' maps for the annual Carnival of Flowers.
Each year, buses packed Tourist Road and Long Street near her home and people would happily wander through her garden.
No more.
After the Council's action, she will retire from the Carnival of Flowers competition.
And with the sweep of a backhoe, her footpath garden is destroyed and another wonderful part of Toowoomba is removed.
Thank you, Toowoomba City Council.
See: Garden destroyers emerge from fog - http://www.thechronicle.com.au/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3657558&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=
Also see: http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/qld/content/2003/s948921.htm
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 3:38 PM
5 Comments:
I seem to recall one of the Councillors saying that a new house should be bulldozed because it didn't fit in with the area.
Defy us at your peril!
1:38 PM, October 21, 2005
Her house was a danger.
Passerbys were sprayed with water. You could not see around her garden, and accidents occured fairly often.
She is a menace and deserves what she got!
2:22 PM, October 30, 2005
Her house was a danger? I thought she was the problem!
I can't recall one accident at that corner and I have been travelling along there for years.
I agree that she was a little eccentric but her garden brought in tourism dollars for Toowoomba.
And what's wrong with a bit of water on a hot summer day?
2:22 PM, October 31, 2005
How about a bit of water on the cold Toowoomba winters?
4:13 PM, October 31, 2005
Ok she has kangaroos in the top paddock - but it was a nice garden display at Carnival time.
5:02 PM, October 31, 2005
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