MoCo Proximity thread

[tm12]

+1 Olney

 

[MarylandExile1861]

Darnestown..so close to being out of yuppyville.

 

[Skins_Brew]

I'm just up the street from the armory, back on the other side of 29 in the second set of suburbs. Nice neighborhood, lots of deer walking around-very quiet and tranquil. My first realization of the politics of this area was shortly after moving in, I decided I would get my chainsaw and take down the very dead tree that is an eyesore on my lawn. So I'm out there with the chainsaw and ladder, getting ready to climb up and start taking some branches down. The neighbor comes running over waving her arms yelling at me to stop. She then proceeds to tell me that I can't legally cut this tree down (she's a cop btw). Say's I have to call the county and have them send an arborist out and that person gets to decide if the tree comes down or not. I thought it was a joke. You know...'let's screw with the new guy" kinda thing. She was serious...

So I call the county and I'm told that I am not to touch the tree-they will send someone. So literally about four months pass and some jackass in a white truck rolls up one day, takes a look at the tree and say's "yep, it's dead. Needs to be removed."

Well thank you captain obvious! Hell I never could have figured that one out without the help of county gov't.

So then I ask the guy if I can cut my tree down now...I was planning to cut it into firewood. I honestly thought he was going to go into shock.

He tells me that I am not to touch the tree. He's sending a crew to remove it. If I touch it, I could be fined, cited, probably have my guns confiscated...God knows what else.

So that was back in November that he was here. I still haven't seen this crew that's supposed to remove my dead tree.

As an added bonus; it reaches over the street. SO if it falls on someone's car, my insurance company won't cover the damages because I've been told by a gov't official that the tree is dead and needs to be removed. So the insurance company sees it as, I need to remove the tree. However, here in the people's republic of montgomery county, I can't touch the goddamn thing because I'm too stupid to remove a tree...apparently.

Needless to say, the wife and I are already discussing moving and we've only been here six months. I'm just not used to this and don't really care to get used to it.


/rant

Are you in that snowden mills development? Or on the other side of randolph?

 

[Skins_Brew]

We must have some AEHS grads here. Class of 02 here.

 

[Afrikeber]

Wheaton near Sligo Creek here......

 

[gungate]

Damascus (South Damascus as well, aka "Gaithersburg" (shiver)) Any shooters near me up for taking a day off and going to the NRA range? I've got lots of fun stuff including a Tommy gun.

 

[gungate]

Wow. I live near the intersection of Randolph and New Hampshire. It's cool how so many of us live in the area.

I used to live right across from Kennedy High in Winding Orchard. Moved 3 years ago to Damascus due to shitty schools in that area.

 

[DubTap21]

Silver Spring, East side of Sligo Creek Pkwy.

 

[MarylandExile1861]

Damascus (South Damascus as well, aka "Gaithersburg" (shiver)) Any shooters near me up for taking a day off and going to the NRA range? I've got lots of fun stuff including a Tommy gun.

Hey buddy, I live in Darnestown (they also group me in with Gaithersburg sometimes..dammit) and I'm definitely up for going to the NRA range sometime. It's been on my to do list as I recently got back into shooting.

 

[Skins_Brew]

Damascus (South Damascus as well, aka "Gaithersburg" (shiver)) Any shooters near me up for taking a day off and going to the NRA range? I've got lots of fun stuff including a Tommy gun.

Take Wed off and head to annapolis...

 

[jb2000tj]

I'm right at new hampshire and the beltway

 

[Bohlieve410]

Hey buddy, I live in Darnestown (they also group me in with Gaithersburg sometimes..dammit) and I'm definitely up for going to the NRA range sometime. It's been on my to do list as I recently got back into shooting.

Yo I'm right down the road in Poolesville. Always looking for folks to hitup Cresap with on Sundays.

It's not Darnestown either...it's North Potomac, or Greater Seneca!

 

[FHJ69]

Right near 109 and 28 here! Just outside Pooletucky!

 

[ianmcall]

Damascus/Gaithersburg. By the intersection of Longcorner and 108

 

[ccarson]

Brookeville
Work in Aspen Hill

 

[echo6mike]

Noob checkin

Gburg

This looks like as good a place as any for my first post - I'm in Gaitherspatch near NIST, grew up in MoCo (inside the Beltway) back in the (ahem) 60s, 70s, and have never stopped complaining about how much better things were in "the good old days"

Except for trying to actually be pro-2A in Maryland. Yes, I've explained our "culture" to more than one person.

Hey, all - glad I finally found this (MDS) place a few weeks ago!

SSgt M...

 

[rsideout]

Brookeville
Work in Aspen Hill

+1 for Brookeville. Not many of us, but lots of folks next door in Olney.

 

[atomics20]

Bethesda here!

 

[slimm2]

Gaithersburg

 

[Mavourneen]

I shop at the Colesville giant all the time.

Colesville for me, too - and that's my Giant.