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Wow, this is the weldor of the [last] century
Cross-Slide wrote:
On Dec 6, 11:32 am, Ignoramus6201 wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer Did you note that they REFUSED to let him connect to the sewer line, and would not let him run his business without it? Also, they closed off the road to his property, and would not let him build another road? It sure sounds like they went WAY out of their way to screw him over for good... But we never find out the true facts after such an incident. Well, anybody who sells property surrounding a piece he intends to retain, without obtaining the necessary easement rights to be able to use his own property, is either an idiot or awfully ill-informed. I have a friend like that, he was ALWAYS suing city hall for some crazy thing or other, to prove to the world he had a God-given right to park derelict cars in his backyard or some insane thing. He really seemed to go OUT of his way to pick fights with the authorities. I never understood it at all. It sounds like this guy needed a good lawyer, not a bulldozer. We had a guy here in Kirkwood MO. who had a paving business, and he felt he had a right to park bulldozers on the street in front of his house, and use his back yard as a dump for pavement rubble. The area he lived in was a traditionally black municipality that had been run pretty much outside any county regulation for a century, and there were no land records or recorded deeds, so nobody could sell any of the property, it was just a mess. So, Kirkwood bought the whole thing up, created a new deed history and transferred titles to people who had been living there. But, the downside was that they wanted to regulate it like the rest of the city of Kirkwood. The guy didn't want anyone telling him he couldn't park dozers on the street, and got in a huge war with the city, eventually killing the mayor and 5 city council members. I don't think Kirkwood was being at all unreasonable with this guy. After assessing about $250,000 in fines, Kirkwood offered to wipe the slate clean if he'd just park the dozers on an industrial site and stop dumping rubble in his backyard. He refused! I don't know in the Heemeyer case what really went on. Jon |
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