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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.

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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: Wuli

Rats is the secret code word to get the health department involved.


41 posted on 04/23/2019 12:29:50 PM PDT by CTGOPPER (Connecticut Conservative)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

When I lived in Southern NH there were virtually no zoning rules. You would see a double wide with three generations of cars on blocks literally next door to an $800,000 home.

On one hand all this kind of regulation was done locally. On the other hand it was almost impossible to enforce. The Sheriff would go out ten or twelve times with warnings, citations, etc.

It was fun to watch the old Yankees get into it with the flatlanders.


42 posted on 04/23/2019 12:32:20 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service?)
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To: A Navy Vet

Not in NH. Welcome to live free or die.


43 posted on 04/23/2019 12:33:50 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service?)
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To: DiogenesLamp

In that part of NH there are very few zoning laws.


44 posted on 04/23/2019 12:34:49 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service?)
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To: Kenny500c

His property is in NH. Salem is a town right over the MA border. They are not discussing Salem MA.


45 posted on 04/23/2019 12:36:13 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service?)
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To: cann
Hummmm.

Sadly, not so any more, according to the Supreme Court!

If your city wants your property to sell to, say, Condo developers that would pay higher taxes than you do - bingo, it’s theirs, for some chump change!

46 posted on 04/23/2019 12:38:13 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Sir_Ed

Oh no, we still do it. We’re just careful to not get caught. Oddly, after the first five, it rarely happens any more.

It’s peaceful and quiet, but I kinda miss the good ol’ days.


47 posted on 04/23/2019 12:38:40 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: CTGOPPER
Rats is the secret code word to get the health department involved.

Yup. Everyone wants people to take their whine seriously, and so they invent imagined dangers in an effort to spur government action to get what they want.

"For the Children" is another such attempt to spur government action.

48 posted on 04/23/2019 12:39:19 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: dfwgator

What I would love to do those ultimate embodiments of evil, the printer.

Goes triple for HPs.

I am related to some pack rats. As for me, I get rid of what I don’t want or need.

Anyone need a military surplus signal keyer or and elevator pulley with a brake?


49 posted on 04/23/2019 12:42:28 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: cann

“If he paid for the property it is his to do with.”

would it be OK if he wanted to manufacture nitro glycerine, plutonium or anthrax?


50 posted on 04/23/2019 12:43:52 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

He is a specialized type of hoarder. Its rather sad, its a mental illness that is very difficult to deal with.


51 posted on 04/23/2019 12:43:58 PM PDT by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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To: Moonman62
According to neighbor John Manning, the pile is attracting rats.

Too bad Gary Larson retired, I see a potential Far Side cartoon in this one.

52 posted on 04/23/2019 12:44:31 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Blue Highway; Daffynition

This guy makes garden gnomes look good.


53 posted on 04/23/2019 12:50:08 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word.)
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To: Night Hides Not

“Albert’s experiment based on the ‘give a hundred monkeys a hundred typewriters theory’ had gone terribly awry.”


54 posted on 04/23/2019 12:53:08 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: Paradox
He is a specialized type of hoarder. Its rather sad, its a mental illness that is very difficult to deal with.

I don't think hoarding is the issue in this case. It appears to be a poor business plan. He likely couldn't afford to dispose of the "INK JET" printers after trying to resell the used cartridges he removed from the printers..

55 posted on 04/23/2019 1:04:27 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Clearly the man insane.


56 posted on 04/23/2019 1:18:11 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: cann

Umm no. That is not how it works when you live among others. You cannot create a hazard, blight, a nuisance, an impediment to others enjoying their own property. You don’t get to turn your SFR zoned property into a junk yard. Let him buy acreage out in the middle of nowhere with no restrictions on property usage. Even then creating a hazard would not be permissible.


57 posted on 04/23/2019 1:25:58 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: CTGOPPER

I can imagine why the health department was called. What the “journalists” left out or failed to learn was why, in the first place, was the man collecting the boxes. That, not the public health issue, is the question/mystery.


58 posted on 04/23/2019 1:26:11 PM PDT by Wuli (30)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

I bet he inherited the property. If he paid for it he wouldn’t have let this happen.


59 posted on 04/23/2019 1:28:03 PM PDT by Boomer (One can be an American or a Democrat but never both; not since Zero was elected anyway.)
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To: cann
If he paid for the property it is his to do with.

So says someone who has no problems with skunks since there has never been a skunk in his neighborhood let alone under his deck..................


60 posted on 04/23/2019 1:34:28 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (uizzzp)
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