Posted on 02/01/2005 1:37:57 PM PST by ambrose
2005
2005
Alan Davis, 49, gained national attention for spreading junk across his front yard, including a giant statue of a human buttock.
Davis accumulated more than 10 year's worth of what officials call junk. He had airplane parts, broken-down cars and fiberglass in his yard. Neighbors have complained about Davis and the piles of junk and rats in his yard for more than 10 years, according to Local 6 News.
Davis, 49, had been placed on house arrest in September after serving nearly a year in prison for illegal dumping and creating and maintaining a public nuisance.
On Monday, a judge sentenced Davis to three years in prison for violations of his house arrest, including failing to return home from work on time and keeping part of a World War II fighter plane in his yard.
"Mr. Davis is marching to the beat of his own drum at all times," the judge said.
Davis, a mechanic and welder, claims he's the victim of a government conspiracy and that he's merely fighting to protect his property rights. He was an artist, he insisted, and the pieces of junk were his supplies.
But neighbors and officials said Davis' lawn is an eyesore and he's flaunted the law for years. Once, when a judge ordered him to move the trash, he put it on his roof.
Monday, the Department of Corrections said Davis violated his probation when he failed to return home at the time designated by his probation officer on two separate occasions.
"I sent him a message though the monitoring company to go home now," Department of Corrections official Lisa Farr said in court. "I then called his residence. He had a voice privacy thing. His wife answered and she said at that time that she didn't know where he was at, but she would find him."
In the hallway outside the courtroom, his wife, Aileen Davis, said, "This is crazy. This is a victimless crime."
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So we really are just slaves of the state...
No, he's flouted the law. The judge is going to flaunt the law to Davis.
*applause*.
(There are *soooo* many editors these days who need to be flogged.)
I feel much better knowing that this villain is behind bars and OJ is free.
Not slaves. Not yet by far. Just in danger of losing more liberties after already having lost many.
Slowly, we're trading away property rights, for expected property values.
That's not why they are doing it. He is asking them to do it.
Tyranny of government.
You could add to that, nosey neighbors that don't know how to mind their own business. Anything like this in WV, hell 3/4's of the State is going down. Blackbird.
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