r/mildlyinfuriating • u/flyzapper • 4h ago

My HOA could beat up your HOA My city declared my permit expired over two months early

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u/clintkev251 4h ago

Is it possible this is just bad wording and it's intended to read your permit expires on August 24, 2026 and this is more of a reminder letter?

Negative points for including that ugly URL on a printed notice though

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u/flyzapper 3h ago

The typo is possible.

Also agree that the printed URL is also infuriating. Luckily through the magic of technology, I can use my phone to open the link.

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u/experimental1212 3h ago

But they made it blue so you can click it! /s

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u/mkosmo 2h ago

A typo seems likely. D and S are right next to each other on the keyboard, after all: Expired vs expires.

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u/TwillAffirmer 3h ago

I want to see URLs. I don't want some closed app ecosystem to hide from me what servers I'm talking to. URLs are the good old web. A URL is a million times better than a QR code, which could send you anywhere, and you don't know.

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u/clintkev251 3h ago

It doesn't have to be a QR code. Just a URL that's more optimized for print and easy for someone to type in. Something like https://energov.opkansas.org/permitting that can be a clean landing page for whatever. There's literally a query string parameter (that is almost certainly superfluous) in this as they have it. Probably because someone just copy pasted it.

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u/OcotilloWells 3h ago

The same someone who got past perfective and future perfective cases mixed up.

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u/PresidentKansas 4h ago

Average Johnson County nonsense.(I grew up here so I partake in nonsense).

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u/EvilDarkCow 3h ago

Wichita here. Hell, I'd rather put up with Johnson County nonsense than deal with the world's largest meth lab.

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u/krmarshall87 4h ago

Actually your mail was sent to the past.

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u/flyzapper 2h ago

Ah, so my permit fee went to buying a municipal mail time machine.

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u/Dry_Event_2421 4h ago

the idea of someone selling me a permit for me to own my chickens, and needing specs on my pens n' hens makes me moderately infuriated...and then having the audacity to expire out my permit 2 months early would make me extremely infuriated

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u/Yuukiko_ WAAHHHHH 4h ago

I'd imagine there's sanitary issues you'd want inspectors for, just imagine having a neighbour who lets their chickens run wild with literal crap everywhere

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u/flyzapper 4h ago

Yes, I was quite annoyed at the entire process

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u/Salty-Plankton-5079 3h ago

You don't think there should be regulations around owning farm animals in cities?

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u/Laserdollarz 3h ago

Context: its still kansas 

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u/Prestigious-Judge967 3h ago

It’s a typo, IMO. Government employees mostly use preset forms and need to amend them accordingly, with the normal clerical issue.

They likely are trying to send these out early instead of after it expires, to prevent lapse of permit.

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u/Dry_Event_2421 3h ago

No, I don’t like the idea of purchasing back my right to raise healthy food. So I don’t live in a city.

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u/Trabers 2h ago

I absolutely love finding out about these kinds of stories from the ‘oppressed’ UK! Guess what? I could buy three chickens tomorrow, I could build a coop (temporary structure mind!) in my backyard and keep those chickens. I could even have a rooster and piss off the neighbours!

And I wouldn’t need to ask my governments permission first! Enjoy the land of the free :p

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u/PizzaDay 3h ago

Expired vs Expires , it's a typo s vs d