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Offline formerlurker

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Sheriff's order destroys home
« on: November 20, 2008, 05:38:03 AM »
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Sheriff's order destroys home
SAYS HE HAD NO OTHER CHOICE TO CLEAR NICHOLAS COUNTY HIGHWAY BLOCKED FOR NINE HOURS
By Mary Meehan - mmeehan1@herald-leader.com

CARLISLE — There's little undisputed in this story, the tale of the tipped trailer.

Frances Barton's single-wide, the one she had fully paid $5,000 for and was hoping to move to a little piece of land she was buying on a $250-a-month land contract, is now literally in pieces on Jim Gaunce's front lawn.

Frances Barton cried Tuesday as she watched cleanup on what's left of her single-wide mobile home four days after it was overturned while it was being moved along U.S. 68 in Nicholas County near Carlisle.

 And, everyone agrees, that leaves some 12 people — four adults and eight children ranging from 3 months to 12 years — facing Thanksgiving with no place to live.


How, exactly, the mobile home came to this odd resting place is where the story gets complicated. On Friday, Barton hired a guy to put her house on a trailer and move it up U.S. 68 in Nicholas County. When the trailer broke down and the house blocked the highway for hours on end, the sheriff got involved.

http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/597604.html


On the other hand, Garrett, a wiry chain-smoker who ran for re-election with the slogan of "More 'Dick' in 2006," maintains that anybody who thinks it's a fine plan to pay somebody $200 to move their 25-year-old home, all their belongings, and a passel of pets with a farm tractor can't exactly complain when things go wrong.


You just can't make this stuff up folks.   

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Re: Sheriff's order destroys home
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2008, 06:35:01 AM »
Quote from: formerlurker on November 20, 2008, 05:38:03 AM
http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/597604.html


On the other hand, Garrett, a wiry chain-smoker who ran for re-election with the slogan of "More 'Dick' in 2006," maintains that anybody who thinks it's a fine plan to pay somebody $200 to move their 25-year-old home, all their belongings, and a passel of pets with a farm tractor can't exactly complain when things go wrong.


You just can't make this stuff up folks.   



Zoning laws here state that a 25 year old house trailer cannot be moved. It must be destroyed on site and hauled to an approved landfill (can't even hookup and tow it to the landfill). Thus, I guess, the $200, non-permitted, farm tractor moving it on a trailer bit, maybe.
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Re: Sheriff's order destroys home
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2008, 12:43:30 PM »
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that leaves some 12 people
plus the other word, Kentucky, explains.......... EVERYTHING.   


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Re: Sheriff's order destroys home
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2008, 07:16:12 PM »
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Barton, a grandma at 35 with gold streaks in red hair, tearfully contends that Nicholas County Sheriff Dick Garrett "showed no respect for my home" when he ultimately ordered two tractors to ram the thing and set it on its side.

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"I know I wouldn't pay somebody $200 to move my house and everything in it," said Garrett, noting that the group didn't have a required permit or escort. Basically, he said, he could have arrested the lot of them: Barton, her brood and the hauler. The charge, he said: "being ignorant."

Your right, you can't make up stuff this good. :loser: :lmao:
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