For Shame!

Owners of blighted property shamed online
msnbc.com

READING, Pa. — Owners neglecting their property in one eastern Pennsylvania city are getting an online shaming.

Reading Mayor Tom McMahon announced a new online "Wall of Shame" featuring blighted properties that he said would be torn down unless owners fix them up. The property owners' names are posted along with pictures and addresses.

"We are ramping up our focus on irresponsible property owners that are bringing blight into our city neighborhoods," McMahon said in a statement Monday after touring one property.

"For 2010, we have 60 properties ... and 10 of them have been formally brought into the process to be designated as blighted properties," he added. "If owners don‟t respond we will take every action necessary to remove the blight, including tearing properties down."

"I say this to owners of derelict properties in our city: you can run, but you cannot hide," McMahon said. "The whole world will know who you are and what you are doing to our neighborhoods and City. Make no mistake about it — we are coming after you.”

Well, I certainly can't blame the city for this one. If you ask me if you break it, then you fix it. Of course it hits pretty close to home since the white trash who used to live next to my parents tore down their fence, hung a green shag carpet rug on what is remaining of the back fence and left two pissed stained maitresses on the back porch. It makes it so much easier to sell a house dirrectly next door. Honestly if I had cared to get these peoples' names they'd be getting shamed right along with a picture of their house right here on the blog. Lucky for them I'm lazy.