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City gives homeowner 10 days to remove thousands of boxes from yard
WMUR/CNN ^ | 4/23/2019 | WMUR

Posted on 04/23/2019 11:58:45 AM PDT by Trump.Deplorable

BRENTWOOD, NH (WMUR/CNN) - A New Hampshire homeowner is under court order to clean up his yard that's littered with thousands of boxes.

If he doesn’t, the town will do it for him and stick him with the bill.

Meanwhile, his neighbors are hoping their community will finally go back to normal.

Michael Bates found himself back in court after failing to clean up his property in Salem, MA.

The town estimates that there are some 2,000 boxes containing printers in the yard.

(Excerpt) Read more at hawaiinewsnow.com ...


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KEYWORDS: badneighbor; bates; board; brentwood; cleanup; condoboard; dump; hoa; hoas; homeownerassociation; michaelbates; newhampshire; printers; quietenjoyment; salem; shithole; slib
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To: Trump.Deplorable

And these “journalists” learned zip about the origins, the reason, for the collection of boxes, supposedly containing printers? Fake news.


21 posted on 04/23/2019 12:08:36 PM PDT by Wuli (30)
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To: Trump.Deplorable
New Hampshire homeowner. House in Massachusetts.

Lot of unanswered questions. All we know is a guy has thousands of boxes in a Salem, MA yard, presumably full of printers. Not even an attempt to get a backstory.

Another very sloppy news article. Nobody is taught proper journalism anymore: Who, what, where, when and why?

22 posted on 04/23/2019 12:08:48 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Trump.Deplorable
A New Hampshire homeowner is under court order to clean up his yard

Michael Bates found himself back in court after failing to clean up his property in Salem, MA.

Read more at hawaiinewsnow.com

Hmm...

23 posted on 04/23/2019 12:09:10 PM PDT by OA5599
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To: dainbramaged

Looks like he’s got a fetish for whatever He calls this.


24 posted on 04/23/2019 12:09:56 PM PDT by caww
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To: b4its2late

Look at the bright side. The neighbors are not complaining that he never mows!


25 posted on 04/23/2019 12:10:47 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: cann
"If he paid for the property it is his to do with."

Not if his right to trash his property directly impacts his neighbors property values. If he were to live in Alaska or some far removed rural area, okay. Besides, there is such a thing as local zoning laws. While I don't agree with some, others make sense.

26 posted on 04/23/2019 12:13:23 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: NEMDF

Good point.


27 posted on 04/23/2019 12:13:59 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: SunkenCiv
He just recently found out that he can buy replacement ink instead of buying a new printer all the time.

Nah, he found out it was cheaper to buy a new printer and just put the cartridge into his current printer than it was to buy new cartridges.

28 posted on 04/23/2019 12:14:26 PM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.

29 posted on 04/23/2019 12:14:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mr. K

Internal printed circuit card assemblies may have gold wire conductive traces on them. He might be harvesting the gold from them.

Or, he might just actually be a nutcase hoarder...


30 posted on 04/23/2019 12:16:04 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

There’s some answers in this article:

https://www.eagletribune.com/news/new_hampshire/salem-home-owner-says-he-s-working-on-cleanup-of/article_a503b7b4-cf46-5119-b65e-9e7392562955.html

SALEM, N.H. — Michael Bates cited his divorce, the Chinese ban on recyclables and an emotional decision to close his liquidation business as the reasons printer boxes are piled 5-feet high in the backyard of his home at 45 Maclarnon Road.

Salem town officials have been working for nearly a year to get the homeowners, Bates and his estranged wife Christina, to clean up the property.

Neighbors say the house has been empty for months and they are fed up with the trash. According to neighbor John Manning, the pile is attracting rats.


31 posted on 04/23/2019 12:16:32 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: NEMDF

LOL!


32 posted on 04/23/2019 12:18:11 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Yo-Yo

:^D Yeah, it pays to research a printer purchase!


33 posted on 04/23/2019 12:18:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

THANK YOU! for the background info.


34 posted on 04/23/2019 12:18:21 PM PDT by HeadOn ([ Insert tagline here - I got nothin'.])
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To: A Navy Vet
Not if his right to trash his property directly impacts his neighbors property values.

So if he wants to paint a big purple eyeball on the side of his house, his neighbor has a right to stop him?

I mention this because I recall reading years ago that someone actually did this.

35 posted on 04/23/2019 12:19:45 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Blue Highway

Since his property is in Massachussets (according to the article) I would tell N.H. to go pound sand, they have no jurisdiction over his property.


36 posted on 04/23/2019 12:20:11 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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According to neighbor John Manning, the pile is attracting rats.

Tough rats if they eat old printers.

37 posted on 04/23/2019 12:23:01 PM PDT by Rio
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To: Trump.Deplorable

That is a lot of printers


Indeed.


38 posted on 04/23/2019 12:23:45 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: SunkenCiv

“He just recently found out that he can buy replacement ink instead of buying a new printer all the time.”

Or...perhaps he found it cheaper to buy a new printer that came with ink, rather than pay ridiculous rip off prices of new replacement ink cartridges.


39 posted on 04/23/2019 12:25:18 PM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Sweet Saint Skittles bounced dat ole white Craka head off da sidewalk causin he was real skeered.)
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To: cuban leaf

So you are sad that we cannot murder our neighbors if they have a messy yard?


40 posted on 04/23/2019 12:25:47 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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