On Nov 17, 8:14*pm, RicodJour wrote:
On Nov 17, 3:45*pm, Oren wrote:









On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:31:31 -0600, "

wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:20:33 -0600, "HeyBub" wrote:

Because of lead and cancer-causing ingredients. But only in front yards.

"[GLENDALE, Calif] The city of Glendale is imposing a ban on artificial
grass. Notices are going out to homeowners whose front yards are covered in
turf."

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/...dale-bans-fake....

Right. *You can't get cancer from eating turf in the back yard.

Yep. I like one commenter's reply about the elected officials.

"Because the residents of the world’s largest outdoor insane asylum
are also idiots."

You ever walk around barefoot on fake grass? *It's way hotter than
real grass. *Have you ever taken a sliding tackle on fake grass? *You
get bad rug burn. *UV eats plastic, even with UV stabilizers. *The
advantage - the thinking - is the same one that over-leveraging
brought to the real estate market.

It's stupid to try to make every property look like Pebble Beach golf
course, and particularly in climates where the local conditions are
not conducive. *It's a waste of money to water and fertilize it, and
it's even a bigger waste to cover a property in fake grass. *It's just
more delayed pollution, and it's ****ing uphill.

Fake grass is intended for lazy people who've bought into some
mythical ideal of what a property should look like. *You never see a
fat person pushing a reel mower around.

The stuff should be banned, and not just for the reasons that the
article cited.

R

***Four cheers!

Both the college and the high school playing fields have been
converted to this awful stuff. I haven't asked the relevant
departments why they did it, but I have a notion that it might be to
-- in their "minds" - to conserve water and low costs. Water is very
expensive in this basically desert area, even though it is a beach
city.
(See "Chinatown".

But the downsides of fake grass, as well outlined above by RicodJour,
should have outweighed the water factor, if the "minds" had sought
technical/professional advice on those very downsides.

Wonder if there was some crony contracting going on?

Now our kids are stuck with this )*&&^%$.

HB