| Hanging Laundry Outside Sparks Nationwide Debate |
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| by Tom McGregor | Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 10:22 AM |
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To others, neighbors deem it a nuisance to see underwear flapping in the wind and homes decay into the architectural style of the 'trailer park, red neck' image. Neighborhoods would then appear more third world than first world. Nowadays, the state of Pennsylvania has become embroiled in the nationwide laundry debate as local authorities must soon make a stand on the issue without guidance from White House directives. Fox News reports that, "Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strings between trees outside her 18th century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials (in Pekasie, Pa.) have asked her to stop." There is a rising number of people across America fighting for the right to dry their clothes against a growing tide of housing associations who denounce the practice in spite of its energy-saving green appeal. "Although," according to Fox, "there are no formal laws in this southeast Pennsylvania town against drying laundry outside, a town official called Froehlich to ask her to stop drying clothes in the sun. And she received to anonymous notes from neighbors saying they did not want to see her underwear flapping about." She said, "they said it made the place look like trailer trash." Ms. Froehlich lives across the steeet from a row of neat, suburban homes. She added, "they said they didn't want to look at my 'unmentionables.'" As reported by Fox, "Froehlich says she hangs her underwear inside. The effervescent 54-year-old is one of a growing number of Americans demanding the right to dry laundry on clotheslines despite local rules and a culture that frowns on it." To read the entire article from Fox News, link here: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it 
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written by Byron George , November 19, 2009 OMG when will Reid and Pelosi call for hearings on such antiquated drying techniques. Pass a Law....We Must Pass a Law Against this Atrocity against mankind. I'm happy the neighbors only said 'trailer park, red neck image.' I know many people who live in "trailers." They are some of the nicest folks in the world. Sad that the neighbors or the writer used such a term. My parents used a clothesline most of my childhood. In fact, so did all our neighbors. Please hurry Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid, my drawers are wet and I need to know if I can hang them up without violating the law, being fined or going to jail. I'm chaffing.
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written by furrpiece , November 19, 2009 I welcome the U.S. Government trying to tell my mother how to dry her clothes. They haven't seen 'enemy combatant' !! She uses her GE dryer when she feels like it, and she uses her clothesline when she feels like it. Years of attempts to decipher the code of which clothes are dried where have failed. It's her secret. My mother could take Sen. Reid in one round, and that's just with her garlic bread. If he nosed into her laundry, he'd learn what rolling pin Judo is all about. If the Wally Cox of the Senate wants to find out what Hell is early, all he needs to do is take on the old ladies of our country. They'll turn him every way but loose. I'm selling tickets. Write comment
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To some, pegging their laundry on clotheslines outdoors is a fantastic solution to help President Barack Obama meet his 'cap-and-trade' proposal to reduce carbon emissions so that the U.S. could meet the strict standards of the United Nations and Al Gore of substantially decreasing the output of greenhouse gases in accord with a global climate change treaty.
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