FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE BASKETBALL HOOPS. Something similar happened to me when I lived in (where else?) California. We lived in a cul-de-sac and had a basketball hoop set up on the sidewalk between adjacent driveways so the neighborhood kids could play basketball in the street. Then came the call from the police. Take it down, because the sidewalk can’t be blocked in case it needs to be used by the wheelchair-bound. Never mind that there were no wheelchair-bound people in the entire neighborhood, and never mind that that 5-foot segment of sidewalk had two adjacent driveways for easy-off/easy-on. A classic example of government of the morons, by the morons, for the morons.