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HeyBub[_3_]

wrote:

Yeah, I noticed that on my visits to Houston.
You're driving through a residential neighborhood and you come to
some house decked out in Xmas lights and it has a sign that says
"Nude Dancing".

Well, that's one way to define freedom but probably not a good
way to protect property values.

Years ago, Shell Oil bought a corner lot on the ritziest street in town. I'm
not kidding; in that neighborhood home prices started at several million,
and that was back when several million was a lot of money. Anyway, Shell
announced plans to erect a gas station with an attached unsanitary taco
stand.

The neighbors were incensed. They cut up their Shell credit cards and mailed
them to the company with nasty letters threatening all manner of undesirable
actions. Amongst the folks outraged were former governor John Connally and
Robert Mossbacher (at that time, the sitting Secretary of Commerce).

Shell reconsidered and donated the corner lot to the city for a pocket-park.

We, in lesser affluent neighborhoods, have more subdued methods of dealing
with those who offend our sensibilities. These methods usually involve
firearms in some fashion