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When I was a firefighter I dealt with people like this all the time. It would cost more to safely transport the home than the home is worth, particularly after it got stuck. It was probably already destroyed past saving when it got stuck due to torquing of the frame. Twelve people in a singlewide tells me these aren't very smart people, and they're probably not very good at life. In that respect, it is sad.

I wouldn't have made the comments the sheriff made, but would have thought most of it.

OTOH, made a call on a lawyer trying to get in a girl's pants that borrowed his friend's speed boat to take the girl on a spin around the lake. The boat was in a raised slip with the drain plugs out. It made the first circle okay, but as you know, boats don't float too well for a long time with no drain plugs. Anyway, when we got the call, they're both standing dripping on the dock, him in a tuxedo and her in an evening gown (they'd left some big evening bash for a midnight drive around the lake) and all that's sticking out of the water are the little blinking red and green warning lights on the prow. We got our boat and tried to tow it, but the weight of the water made it too heavy, so we called a wrecker. The lawyer was desperate to get the boat out of the water before his friend, the owner, saw it. He told me, "If you can't figure it out, let me use your boat and I'll tow it out of the water." I told him, "Buddy, you already sunk one boat tonight. You're not getting mine."

I love it when stuff like this happens to lawyers.

Twelve people in a singlewide tells me these aren't very smart people

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.

A neighbor woke us up in the wee hours one time- he was in a mess; he had taken a brand new 4x4 pickup that belonged to his boss (didn’t ask- his boss was passed out drunk) to “borrow” firewood from behind an empty house. He went in the back way so no one would see him and the truck fell into an old cesspool. He wanted hubby to help him or loan him our truck to get the other truck he “borrowed” out of the ground before his boss came to. Hubby was not very nice to him when telling him NO. I did make the remark that at least he asked and didn’t just take it.