Greenwich, Connecticut, has forbidden clotheslines — in an elderly-housing complex — as a purported safety hazard. Its director not very convincingly cited “liability issues – someone running around in the backyard in the dark”. [Christopher Fountain, For What It's Worth]
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Yes, I know that my 92-year-old father likes to indulge in nude outdoor running in the dark. Good thing he’s in an apartment on Sutton Place and the neighbors are too elderly to notice, let alone complain.
Bob
(knock knock)
Grandma: “Who is it?”
Burglar: “Burglar!”
– Monty Python
Maybe they are thinking about that 13 year old Wilton boy who was killed (murdered?) when a neighbor (either a nasty old guy or some stupid teenagers, the cops aren’t talking) strung a rope across a path that the boy periodically rode his dirt bike on, with predictable consequences.
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