No relation, eh?
Posted on 11/19/2008 7:19:18 AM PST by Daffynition
Well, now, I like that. It’s tastefully done.
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I love it!
I’d do a little more with window boxes though! :_D
I’m just back from Amazon.com. You can still get the books. Cool stuff for Christmas!
and an endless supply of booze and smokes.
This has no logic.
why destroy the trailer when it could have been towed or pushed out of the way.
cop fever in action.
I don't see how that's even possible.
According to the article, this was a 25 year old singlewide.
Back in '83 a singlewide was about twelve by sixty.
That's 720 square feet for twelve people - basically twelve people living in a smallish studio apartment.
Crews of illegal Mexican drywallers live more spaciously than that.
i tried to get through the entire article, but the level of white trash got so high that i had to stop and go buy a mocha chino pumpkin latte, read the new york times, and but a new pair of $500 alligator loafers just so i could get back to my usual level of metrosexualness.
No relation, eh?
duh. see, i'm not back to normal yet!
Not reading the article syndrome is in action, on your part.
The county brought in a legitimate towing company and they were unsuccessful.
This was a 25 year old trailer which was probably not very sturdy to begin with. The wheels popped off its conveyance before the sherriff even arrived, meaning it was probably already structurally damaged from the breakdown.
All this occurred in the midst of a driving rain to boot.
When the towing company tried to move the trailer, it began coming apart and the tower refused to do anything else with it.
At that point, the sherriff instructed the geniuses attempting this little feat to remove any valuables from inside the broken trailer before he pushed it off the road.
SNIP
Garrett, a wiry chain-smoker who ran for re-election with the slogan of "More 'Dick' in 2006,"
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Chris "Pancake" Meyers told her, she said, that he had more than 13 years' experience in hauling things and that he had the proper permits and insurance for the move.
You MUST read this article! LMAO
"Barton, a grandma at 35 with gold streaks in red hair..."
"...where Garrett Tuesday was reviewing a Mayberry-like constituent call concerning a thwarted attempt to snatch a fresh cherry pie from a kitchen...."
her “little standoff” was over her home.
I see we have a few here having a dry chuckle at the misfortunes of a person who is living on the lower end of the eccononmy however this has to be seen from her perspective.
She need to move her home and that was all the money she could afford to pay.
She did not ask for public assistance. Something we here on freerepublic.com seem to applaud.
It strikes me that the “can’t be done” analysis is the same limited problem solving that occures when some computer tech can’t figure out a problem and just says “blame windows, reinstall and erase all yer data.”
I am simply stating the WHY she was so tenacious. It was her home, it was her castle, even if it is only a low life trailer in the eyes of those posting here.
When you read the article it often clears things up.
LOL!
We have no idea how much she could or could not afford to pay.
We do know that she chose to pay a knucklehead to move her home without even checking to see if he was insured.
That was, to put it mildly, unwise.
She inconvenienced hundreds of people - many of whom were likely themselves in straitened economic circumstances and who needed to get to work in order to pay their mortgages and feed their families.
Her very unintelligent decision cost them money, money which many of them could probably ill afford to spare.
It strikes me that the “can’t be done” analysis
The analysis was done by a professional towing company whose employees probably do this (move trailers) all the time.
They gave up on it as a lost cause.
If anybody would know what couldn't be done in the sphere of trailer-hauling, it would probably be them.
What is certain is that the method she chose ended in a complete fail in all of 1.5 miles.
I am simply stating the WHY she was so tenacious. It was her home, it was her castle
Indeed. Which is why her utter carelessness with it is all the more amazing.
However, the question lingers: where was she living before this automobile accident windfall?
If experience is a guide, most likely the boyfriend was standing in the way and the police officers was doing the “obey a lawful police order” or else. [something the general public in “civilized” america should get used to with Prez. Obama(taxes) ]
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