Delaware Department of Transportation crews escorted by state police tore down basketball hoops this morning in two neighborhoods in Claymont amid protests from residents who say the nets aren’t harming anyone.
Last fall, DelDOT sent letters to at least eight residents in the Radnor Green and Ashbourne Hills subdivisions saying their street-side basketball hoops violated the state’s Clear Zone law, which prohibits hoops, trees, shrubs and other objects from being within seven feet of the pavement’s edge in subdivisions.
DelDOT told residents that if they didn’t take down the hoops that the agency would and residents would be charged for the removal and disposal costs, said Radnor Green resident John McCafferty. (via)
The ruling on homeowners having basketball hoops is ridiculous. The use of tax payer money for something like this is astonishing. Unfortunately, asinine things like this are happening in neighborhoods all over the U.S. The law is the law I guess, but geez.
See video of a homeowner plead with DOT workers while they use a front loader to take away his basketball hoop.
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