Sore Losers

Apparently believing that there is no such thing a being gracious in defeat, the NIMBYs of the Ridglea Hills Neighborhood Association have enlisted the assistance of the Fort Worth Independent School District in their fight against Wal-Mart. Members of the homeowner's association have been fighting the world's largest retailer, over a store that is going up in southwest Fort Worth. Now the school district has joined with the neighborhood group to oppose an application by Wal-Mart for a permit to allow beer and wine to be sold. The homeowner's group has opposed the store since it was first proposed, saying that it would bring excessive lighting and noise and draw unsavory people to the area.

Members of the neighborhood association claim that allowing wine and beer sales so close to Ridglea Hills Elementary School will endanger the childlin'. "We don't want it for the same reasons we didn't want that store to begin with," Bob Bashein, organization president to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "It's behind a school and next to a park." What Mr. Bashein fails to mention is that the store fronts a freeway. The City of Fort Worth gave Wal-Mart a variance to sell beer and wine after Wal-Mart agreed to build a wall separating the store from the school. It is obvious that the homeowners association is simply being vindictive. What is not so obvious is why the FWISD would want to join them. Come on folks, get a life. Do you honestly thing an elementary child is going to climb over the wall, sneak into Wal-Mart take a beer up to the cashier and be mistaken for an adult and sold the beer? Sheesh.