Suburban News Digest
A avant-garde clothing merchant in Royal Oak, MI hangs 50 multicolored cotton and Spandex bras from a dead ash tree tree outside his store, in a move intended to prompt action by city government. Claims the city first killed off the tree (while replacing the sidewalk) and then failed to remove it. Officials deny the charge, blaming an insect known as the emerald ash borer.
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The inhabitants of Sage Sparrow Court in Highlands Ranch, CO (okay, this story is ten days old, but suburban news is hard to come by), are feuding over whether kids should be allowed to play street hockey on the cul-de-sac. It's fourteen families against one, with retired couple Fred and Fran Zickert citing a state law barring roller-skating on roadways, and the fourteen others arguing that kids playing outside their homes is the raison d'etre for cul-de-sacs in the first place.
"It's not like we're in the way of lots of traffic," says one of the kids. "We only get people who live here and the pizza delivery man."
"I can't drive in or out of my house with 20 kids in the street, and I'm not going to swerve around hockey nets," counters Fran Zickert.
"We've had two police cars and four cops here going over tapes from the Zickerts' surveillance cameras. Don't they have more important things to do?" asks resident Amy Dryer.
Police warn that things have escalated "to the point where violence with personal assault or property damage is a real possibility."
10:05:41 AM 
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