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| Don't Fence Me In |
| 2008-08-08 |
| A farmer has erected a backyard fence made of three old cars sticking up in the air to send a message to new neighbors that he can do whatever he wants on his property. "This is just a fun way for me to say, `Hey boys, I'm still here,'" Rhett Davis said. "This is my redneck Stonehenge." Davis came up with the idea after neighbors who recently moved into homes next to his hayfield complained about his farm. It's Icky! "The people who bought the homes say, `Well, we love looking into your yard and seeing the horses and the cattle, but we don't like the flies, and we don't like the mosquitoes,' and when I cut my field to bale it, they say, `We don't like the dust in the air,'" Davis said. We came out here to enjoy everything but can't you get rid of the icky stuff? I mean, we might get dirty. Can't you keep the poop cleaned up? Back home we had to clean up after our dogs. Neighbors declined to comment to the Standard-Examiner of Ogden. Davis said he offered to pay for half the cost of a fence between his property and the others and to build it. He said his neighbors declined the offer, saying it would block their view. We want to look at beautiful things. Make it like a picture. Davis said he used a backhoe to dig three large holes on the edge of his property, then took three cars that had competed in demolition derbies and planted them nose-first into the ground. He said the cars were planted out of humor rather than spite. He stressed that it's important for new residents to realize that Hooper is a farming community. Made his own little Car Hinge, he did. "I respect that they're here and spent a lot on their homes, but on the other hand, give me a little bit, too," Davis said. "I've been here since I was 7 years old." Damned Interlopers. He said he doesn't intend to keep the cars up permanently. "These can come out just as easy as they went in," Davis said. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #6 I have some family south of Denver. They moved there to be closer to the wildlife; deer, elk, etc. City folk started moving into the same area for similar reasons, then started complaining that the wildlife was destroying their flowers and made it dangerous for the kids to go out and play. Now that the area is suburbanized people are complaining that there is no wildlife which is why the yuppies moved there - and my relatives lost the reason they chose that place because of the new neighbors. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-08-08 15:48 |
| #5 Same story here with a very small private airport. People bought adjacent new homes and then tried to get the airport shut down for noise reasons. The airport is decades older than the homes. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-08-08 15:34 |
| #4 Same problem in Avon, CT - homeowners bitched because the Governor's Horse Guard facility was 'bothersome'. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-08-08 12:23 |
| #3 Does that guy know how much cars are junking for right now? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-08-08 10:47 |
| #2 In-laws who live on the Maine ocast report a similar phenomenon. Picturesque fishing villages are less attractive to the ears and nose than they are to the eyes, so yuppies rusticating there from NY and Boston are trying to limit fishing activities, which means other people's livelihoods. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2008-08-08 05:34 |
| #1 Soon to become a major tourist attraction. If you plant it, they will come. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-08-08 01:29 |